Dear Evan Hansen

July 28-Aug. 3 You will be found.

Performances at 8:15 p.m. nightly

Evan Hansen, a teenager with a severe anxiety disorder, has always felt invisible. But when a sudden death shocks the community and thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, Evan is given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to be somebody else. Dear Evan Hansen — winner of the Tony and Olivier awards for best musical — is a profoundly contemporary coming-of-age story about the fragility of life and the need for human connection. A Muny and Midwest regional premiere!

Book by Steven Levenson • Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Dear Evan Hansen is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. mtishows.com

  • Rob Ruggiero

    Director

  • Beth Crandall

    Choreographer

  • Roberto Sinha

    Music Director/Conductor

  • Michael Schweikardt

    Scenic Design

  • Joseph Shrope

    Costume Design

  • Rob Denton

    Lighting Design

  • John Shivers

    Sound Design

  • David Patridge

    Sound Design

  • Kevan Loney

    Video Design

  • J. Jared Janas

    Wig Design

Creative team

ROB RUGGIERO

Director

Muny: Fiddler on the Roof; West Side Story; Sweeney Todd; 1776; Gypsy; The Music Man; Oklahoma!; Hello, Dolly!; South Pacific and The King and I. He has also directed many award-winning productions at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, including Follies, Sunday in the Park With George, Take Me Out and Evita. His award-winning work has been seen at regional theaters all over the country. Broadway: High (starring Kathleen Turner) and Looped (starring Valerie Harper). Off-Broadway, Rob conceived and directed Make Me a Song (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations). In 2011, he directed a new version of Show Boat at Goodspeed Musicals, where he is a frequent collaborator and where he will be directing a 50th anniversary production of A Chorus Line. He is the artistic director at TheaterWorks Hartford.

BETH CRANDALL

Choreographer

returns to The Muny after choreographing Matilda, The Sound of Music and Camelot. She served as associate choreographer for Newsies, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway and the Centennial Gala. Beth is the international associate choreographer for Back to the Future: The Musical, including Broadway, the U.S. tour, Japan and Australia. She recently served as co-choreographer for On the 20th Century at the Tokyu Theatre Orb. She also choreographed Tale as Old as Time: The Songs of Howard Ashman for the 92Y and the original piece In the Pocket for the Joffrey Ballet School in NYC. Other Broadway credits include Gettin’ the Band Back Together and West Side Story. She graduated with a BFA from NYU Tisch.

ROBERTO SINHA

Music Director/Conductor

Broadway: Hell’s Kitchen; New York, New York; Hamilton; Kinky Boots; It Shoulda Been You; Violet; Bullets Over Broadway; Big Fish. Tours: Hamilton (Philip Tour), Kinky Boots, Elf, Cinderella. Selected: Spelling Bee (Kennedy Center), In the Heights (The Muny), Galileo (Berkeley Rep), Real Women Have Curves (A.R.T.), Chess (ECF Benefit), Kiss My Aztec! (Hartford Stage). Education: Penn State, MFA music directing under Dan Riddle; Florida State, BM piano performance.