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DEAR EVAN HANSEN To Return To The Philly Region At Wilmington's Playhouse On Rodney Square

Performances will run April 11-13, 2025.

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DEAR EVAN HANSEN To Return To The Philly Region At Wilmington's Playhouse On Rodney Square

The Grand will present the Wilmington premiere engagement of the Tony and Grammy -winning Best Musical that connected the world DEAR EVAN HANSEN at The Playhouse on Rodney Square from April 11-13, 2025. 

Declared "one of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history" by The Washington Post, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the first musical to take a groundbreaking look - from the point of view of both the parents and young people - at our complex, interconnected, and social media-filled lives.

Evan Hansen is a high school student who always feels like he's on the outside looking in. Evan finally gets what so many of us are searching for-the chance to finally fit in. What follows is a poignant, funny, and powerful musical about how even though it can be hard, we can find each other-and ourselves-along the way.

Including some of the most iconic musical theatre songs from the last decade, including "You Will Be Found," "Waving Through A Window," and "For Forever," DEAR EVAN HANSEN features an uplifting score by the Emmy , Tony , Grammy, and Oscar winning team behind The Greatest Showman, La La Land, and "Only Murders in the Building" Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Tony Award-winner Steven Levenson.

The cast includes Michael Fabisch as the title role 'Evan Hansen,' Hatty Ryan King as 'Zoe Murphy,' Bre Cade as 'Heidi Hansen,' Caitlin Sams as 'Cynthia Murphy,' Alex Pharo as 'Connor Murphy,' Jeff Brooks as 'Larry Murphy,' Gabriel Vernon Nunag as 'Jared Kleinman,' and Makena Jackson as 'Alana Beck.' "The cast also includes understudies Michael Perez (Evan alternate), Monica Blume, Julianna Braga, and Blake Ehrlichman.

DEAR EVAN HANSEN features scenic design by David Korins, projection design by Peter Nigrini, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, and sound design by Nevin Steinberg. Music supervision, orchestrations and additional arrangements are by Alex Lacamoire. Ben Cohn is the Associate Music Supervisor. Vocal arrangements and additional arrangements are by Justin Paul. Direction restaging by Danny Sharron and Mark Myars. (Myars also restages choreography.) Original Broadway production directed by Michael Grief and choreographed by Danny Mefford. Casting is by Murnane Casting.

DEAR EVAN HANSEN was originally produced on Broadway, North American Tour, Toronto and London by Stacey Mindich. The Broadway production opened at the Music Box Theatre to rave reviews on December 4, 2016, won six 2017 Tony Awards and ran through September 18, 2022. A record-breaking North American Tour launched in October 2018 and played over 100 cities before ending on July 2, 2023.







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