The full forged is introduced for the brand-new manufacturing of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning Best Musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN, taking part in at The King’s Theatre, Glasgow from Tuesday 21 February till Saturday 1 March 2025.
Ryan Kopel (Newsies) will play the enduring position of Evan Hansen, alongside Lauren Conroy (Into The Woods) as Zoe Murphy and Alice Fearn (Wicked, Come From Away) as Evan’s mum, Heidi.
They will likely be joined by Helen Anker (Mamma Mia!) as Cynthia Murphy, Richard Hurst (The Lion King) as Larry Murphy, Killian Thomas Lefevre (Bat Out Of Hell) as Connor Murphy, Tom Dickerson (Heathers) as Jared Kleinman, Vivian Panka (9 to five the Musical) as Alana Beck and Sonny Monaghan (found through TikTok) as alternate Evan.
This is the primary manufacturing of Dear Evan Hansen within the UK to carry out the present with an ensemble. The ensemble are Lara Beth-Sas, Will Forgrave, Daniel Forrester, Jessica Lim, Sonny Monaghan and Shakira Simpson.
The casting crew collaborated with TikTok in the course of the audition course of, inviting TikTok customers who have been enthusiastic about being forged within the manufacturing to add a video of themselves singing any quantity from the present. The crew then reviewed all submissions and invited these they felt may very well be part of the forged to take part within the formal audition course of. Over 2000 movies have been submitted and of these, 36 TikTok customers have been invited to in-person auditions. Sonny Monaghan was forged within the ensemble, and as alternate Evan (performing the position twice every week, at each matinee efficiency), because of the TikTok collaboration.
Director Adam Penford mentioned “I am beyond thrilled with the talented cast we have assembled. An exciting mix of musical theatre legends and rising stars. It’s been nine years since the original show premiered, and it’s an honour to be the first production to reimagine this powerful story through a contemporary lens.”
The manufacturing can be delighted to announce its partnership with The Mix, the UK’s main digital charity for beneath 25-year-olds. The present offers with delicate subjects, very related to younger individuals as we speak, and this partnership will be certain that anybody affected by the problems explored within the present is aware of the place to seek out help.
The Mix will present coaching to the forged and artistic crew on find out how to appropriately reply to queries from the general public, each on-line and offline, and equip them with the data to direct people to the suitable help channels. The partnership additionally goals to create participating and informative content material to assist elevate and empower younger individuals at a time after they want it most. This will embrace sources and tips about important life abilities for transitioning into maturity.
Morgan Large is Set and Costume Designer (Newsies, Sister Act), with Carrie-Anne Ingrouille as Choreographer (Six, Zoo Nation), Matt Daw as Lighting Designer (Pet Shop Boys, Lorde), Tom Marshall as Sound Designer (West Side Story, Sister Act), Ravi Deepres as Video Designer (School for Scandal, Woolf Works), Matt Smith as Musical Supervisor (Dear Evan Hansen, My Neighbour Totoro) and Natalie Gallacher CDG for Pippa Ailion & Natalie Gallacher Casting as casting director (Mean Girls, MJ The Musical, Moulin Rouge), Michelle Payne as Associate Director and Laura Llewellyn-Jones as Orchestral Manager.
Packed with among the greatest musical theatre songs of the final decade, DEAR EVAN HANSEN has a rating by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Oscar-winning composers for The Greatest Showman and La La Land) and a e-book by Steven Levenson. Its many awards embrace the Tony® Award for Best Musical, Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theatre Album.
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Meet Evan: an anxious highschool child who needs nothing greater than to slot in. The factor is, on his approach to becoming in, he didn’t inform the entire fact. And now should surrender on a life he by no means dreamt he’d have. As occasions spiral and the reality comes out, Evan faces a reckoning with himself and everybody round him.
Ryan Kopel’s theatre credit embrace Newsies at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, West End productions of The Book Of Mormon on the Prince of Wales Theatre and The Inheritance on the Noël Coward Theatre, and West Side Story on the Edinburgh International Festival. He has additionally carried out in The Addams Family live performance on the London Palladium and the Billie the Kid live performance on the Vaudeville Theatre. His tv credit embrace HBO sequence House of the Dragon and Wedding Season.
Lauren Conroy’s theatre credit embrace Babies on the Lyric Theatre and The Other Palace, Bear Snores On on the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, The Sound of Music on the Chichester Festival Theatre and Into The Woods at Bath Theatre Royal. On tv, Lauren has appeared in Apple TV’s The Buccaneers, ITV’s The Confessions of Frannie Langton and the BBC’s Shetland.
Alice Fearn’s theatre credit embrace West End productions of Come From Away on the Phoenix Theatre, Wicked on the Apollo Victoria Theatre, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on the Savoy Theatre, Les Misérables on the Queen’s Theatre, Woman In White on the Palace Theatre and Shrek The Musical at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. She has additionally appeared in Into The Woods on the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Annie Get Your Gun on the Young Vic, Then, Now & Next on the Southwark Playhouse and Oliver! at The Watermill Theatre, Her movie credit embrace Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, Alice In Wonderland, Clash Of The Titans, Mamma Mia! and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Helen Anker has carried out in lots of West End and Broadway productions, together with Promises Promises on the Broadway Theatre, Parade on the Donmar Warehouse, Oklahoma! At the National Theatre and Lyceum Theatre, Always on the Victoria Palace Theatre, Cats on the New London Theatre, Fame on the Cambridge Theatre and Crazy for You on the Prince Edward Theatre. Her different theatre credit embrace the UK and International Tour of Mamma Mia!, Candide and On the Town, each at English National Opera. Her movie credit embrace Ted 2, Cinderella and Oklahoma! — The Movie, and tv credit embrace Law and Order, The Good Wife and White Collar.
Richard Hurst’s theatre credit embrace The Duchess of Malfi and The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich on the RSC, Jane Eyre on the National Theatre, My Night With Reg on the Apollo Theatre and Donmar Warehouse, A Chorus of Disapproval, Worst Wedding Ever and Dick Whittington and his Cat, all on the Salisbury Playhouse, and the UK & International Tour of The Lion King. His tv credit embrace EastEnders, Doctors, Casualty, Look and The Sitcom Trials.
Killian Thomas Lefevre’s theatre credit embrace West End productions of The Strange Affair of Herschel Grynszpan at The Other Palace and Stick Man at Leicester Square Theatre, in addition to Secret Cinema’s Stranger Things in London, the UK and International Tour of Bat Out of Hell, and The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man at Nottingham Playhouse.
Tom Dickerson’s theatre credit embrace the UK & Ireland Tour of Heathers, the International Tour of The Book of Mormon, Hansel & Gretel on the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Alice on the Dubai QE2, But I’m A Cheerleader at MT Fest and The Other Palace, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, each on the Isle of Man Gaiety Theatre.
Vivian Panka’s theatre credit embrace Heathers the Musical at The Other Palace and the UK Tour of 9 to five The Musical. She additionally appeared within the movie of Heathers: The Musical.
Sonny Monaghan’s theatre credit embrace Turn the Page at The Stables, Carmen at White Rock and TAG Live at COVE Resorts.
Lara Beth-Sas’s theatre credit embrace Jack and the Beanstalk at The Kenton Theatre, Treasure Island on the Hazlitt Theatre, the UK & Ireland Tour of Friends The Musical Parody, A Christmas Carol and Cinderella on the Groundlings Theatre, and Two and a Half Showbiz Girls on the Doncaster Little Theatre.
Will Forgrave’s theatre credit embrace the UK Tour of The Sound of Music, The Go-Between on the Apollo Theatre, The Braille Legacy at Charing Cross Theatre, Oliver on the Manchester Palace and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on the Liverpool Empire.
Daniel Forrester’s theatre credit embrace West End productions Opening Night on the Gielgud Theatre and Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations on the Prince Edward Theatre, in addition to Summer! The Donna Summer Musical at Norwegian Cruise Lines.
Jessica Lim’s theatre credit embrace the UK Tour of Shrek The Musical, Dark Lord at MT Fest and The Other Palace, Claus The Musical at The Lowry, Zorro The Musical at Charing Cross Theatre, The Musical That Goes Right at The Cockpit and Mario: A Super Musical! at The Union Theatre.
Shakira Simpson’s theatre credit embrace West End productions of Hairspray on the London Coliseum, The Lion King on the Lyceum Theatre and Billy Elliott on the Victoria Palace Theatre, in addition to the UK & Ireland tour of Six The Musical, Legally Blonde on the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and the UK tour of Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World.
