Winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Musical
"Dear Evan Hansen lodges in your head long after you've seen it or
heard it or read it. It feels like a pure expression from young writers
at a crossroad of coming to terms with who they are and what they want
to say about the world. Its honesty and truths haunt and ultimately open
us up to ask the same question, no matter what our age or crossroad:
What are the lies we tell ourselves?" -James Lapine (from the Foreword)
A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to
be told, a life he never dreamed could be his. Evan Hansen is about to
get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to belong. Deeply
personal and profoundly universal, Dear Evan Hansen is a
groundbreaking American musical about truth, fiction, and the price
we're willing to pay for the possibility to connect.
*This publication includes the book and lyrics to the musical, as well
as a foreword by James Lapine. Please note that it does not include the
musical score.*
Steven Levenson is the book writer for Dear Evan Hansen. His plays
include If I Forget, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin,
Core Values, The Language of Trees, and Seven Minutes in Heaven. A
graduate of Brown University, he served for three seasons as a writer
and producer on Showtime's Master of Sex.
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul are the song-writing team behind Dear Evan
Hansen. Previous musicals include A Christmas Story: The Musical,
Dogfight, James and the Giant Peach, and Edges. Their film
projects include La La Land (for which they won the Academy Award for
Best Original Song for "City of Stars," with composer Justin Hurwitz),
Trolls, Snow White, and The Greatest Showman. Their television
credits include The Flash, Smash, and Johnny and the Sprites. Both
are graduates of the University of Michigan Musical Theatre Program and
members of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
