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Evan Hansen is the titular character and main protagonist of the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.A bullied 17-year-old high schooler with social anxiety and depression, who lives with his single mother Heidi Hansen after she divorced from his father Mark Hansen ten years before, he attempts to find the acceptance and love he has been lacking in ...
Dear Evan Hansen is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Steven Levenson. [1] [2] [3] The musical follows Evan Hansen, a high school senior with social anxiety, "who invents an important role for himself in a tragedy that he did not earn".
Ben Platt's appearance as Evan Hansen was met with harsh criticism from viewers upon the release of the film's first trailer. The first trailer was released online on May 18, 2021. [11] The appearance of the character of Evan Hansen was met with criticism, with viewers commenting that Platt, at age 27, looked too old to play a teenager.
Platt won a Tony for his stage performance as the anxious teenager, but was bombarded with online vitriol for the film version.
Michael Frank Park (born July 20, 1968) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Jack Snyder on As the World Turns (1997– 2010), Larry Murphy in the original Broadway cast of Dear Evan Hansen (2016), and reporter Tom Holloway in the third season of the Netflix series Stranger Things (2019).
In 2017, the song was parodied as part of "Broadway Bound", the opening number of the 71st Tony Awards, which began with host Kevin Spacey dressed in Evan Hansen's iconic blue-striped polo and arm cast. [17] In 2017, a cover of the song by Thomas Sanders, Robyn Adele Anderson and Von Smith was released on YouTube. [18]
Kopel at the curtain call of Dear Evan Hansen in November 2024. Kopel made his television debut in 2021 on the British medical drama Casualty, where he guest starred at Frank Polt. He then appeared in the 2022 British mini-series Wedding Season. Kopel returned to theatre in 2022 in Disney's musical Newsies, where he took on the role of Davey ...
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