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Post by mrbluesky on Jun 11, 2024 9:06:15 GMT
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 11, 2024 9:06:55 GMT
It will never cease to surprise me that singers get cast in roles that need actors
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 11, 2024 9:11:42 GMT
Sonny Monaghan (discovered via TikTok) as alternate Evan.
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Post by westendwhistledown on Jun 11, 2024 9:31:00 GMT
Lauren Conroy is Zoe, she is in Babies at the moment and is INCREDIBLE!
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Jun 11, 2024 10:06:50 GMT
Booking this solely for Alice Fearn. Have followed her since I saw her at the Young Vic (Annie Get Your Gun).
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Post by thedrowsychaperone on Jun 11, 2024 10:21:08 GMT
Heidi is SUCH a thankless role and then gets the show's best number (by a mile) at the eleventh hour, Alice will knock this out of the park
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 11, 2024 10:29:14 GMT
...except it isn't a thankless role - Rachel Bay Jones showed that the part is special if you have someone who can hit all of the beats and make the audience feel it (as shown in her well deserved Tony win)
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Post by jj9692 on Jun 11, 2024 10:50:22 GMT
My main concern is that the entire cast is quite young. There doesn’t seem to be anyone who would look at all believable to be a cover for Heidi, Cynthia or Larry. They would all borderline pass for the teen bracket from the stage, but parents of teens would really be pushing the limits on suspending disbelief.
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Post by thedrowsychaperone on Jun 11, 2024 10:58:43 GMT
...except it isn't a thankless role - Rachel Bay Jones showed that the part is special if you have someone who can hit all of the beats and make the audience feel it (as shown in her well deserved Tony win) Apologies, thankless was maybe a bit strong... I just meant that when I saw it, that character left no impression on me UNTIL their number at the end of the show. I guess then the building blocks they've put in place for the rest of the show pay off! |
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 11, 2024 11:28:45 GMT
Very small ensemble... and as said, what about covers for the adult roles?
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 11, 2024 11:42:29 GMT
Very small ensemble... and as said, what about covers for the adult roles? I'm surprised they've gone for an ensemble and not with the 5 or so off stage covers they had in London/New York |
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Post by flouise on Jun 11, 2024 11:52:15 GMT
I had so little interest in this before they cast Alice Fearn, I am far too easily influenced!
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Post by sph on Jun 11, 2024 13:14:21 GMT
Perhaps there are older adult offstage covers still to be announced?
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 11, 2024 14:37:14 GMT
Perhaps there are older adult offstage covers still to be announced? It's being reported as "complete cast" but I hope this is the case and there's covers to be announced. |
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Post by westendwhistledown on Jun 11, 2024 14:56:18 GMT
The ensemble cover the leads, don't think there are anymore announcements to come casting wise
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 11, 2024 15:05:46 GMT
The ensemble cover the leads, don't think there are anymore announcements to come casting wise Wild that whoever is covering the mum's (I assume Lara Beth-Sas from the options on the website) looks about the same age as both of the Evans so...that'll work well! |
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Post by westendwhistledown on Jun 11, 2024 15:30:27 GMT
Lara Sas is 1st cover Heidi/2nd cover Cynthia, Jess Olford is 1st cover Cynthia/2nd cover Heidi
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Post by Dr Tom on Jun 11, 2024 15:55:47 GMT
Nice cast and glad there will be more people on stage than in London.
I like Ryan Kopel but I wouldn't have picked him as an Evan in the London style. Wil be interesting to see how he approaches this role. He is talented and I'm sure he'll knock this one out of the park.
Good to see Will Forgrave in the cast as well. He seems to be covering all the male roles (from his Instagram "1st cover Connor, 1st cover Jared, 2nd cover Evan & 2nd cover Larry"). He's one of those people who it's hard to not keep your eyes on when he's on stage.
Alice Fearn is faultless.
Looking forward to this a lot more now.
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 11, 2024 16:11:06 GMT
Lara Sas is 1st cover Heidi/2nd cover Cynthia, Jess Olford is 1st cover Cynthia/2nd cover Heidi They both look the same age as Evan but ok! |
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Post by alece10 on Jun 11, 2024 16:20:19 GMT
Ryan, for me was one of the standout performers in Newsies so think he will do a great job.
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Post by darreno on Jun 12, 2024 7:09:14 GMT
Vivian Panka being in this is enough to get me to buy a ticket. Very interested to see what Ryan Kopel does with it too. Having seen him in Mormon and Newsies, (and I 'think' Parade too?), there's something fun about seeing someone's career develop over the years.
DEH is a strange one for me, I can't even explain how much I was looking forward to seeing it the first time around, but it didn't hit the notes I expected it to. Now that seems likely to have been the fault of my own expectation rather than the show itself, so I will re-visit it again a couple more times free of expectation.
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Post by danb on Jun 12, 2024 7:56:44 GMT
Vivian Panka being in this is enough to get me to buy a ticket. Very interested to see what Ryan Kopel does with it too. Having seen him in Mormon and Newsies, (and I 'think' Parade too?), there's something fun about seeing someone's career develop over the years. DEH is a strange one for me, I can't even explain how much I was looking forward to seeing it the first time around, but it didn't hit the notes I expected it to. Now that seems likely to have been the fault of my own expectation rather than the show itself, so I will re-visit it again a couple more times free of expectation. No, I think you’re right about expectations of the piece. This is also tied into how it was sold, what it sounds like on record vs on stage, the zeitgeist at the time and how it tapped into current conversations around mental health. It sounds big…it isn’t big. It was multi-tracked to death…the stage was filled with screens instead of people. Yes there were big moments of emotion, yes the central performances were fantastic but it did not add up to a satisfying whole. To me it felt about as deep as a puddle, and I found the stories on the periphery far more affecting. I look forward to Notts Playhouse finding some depth at its heart. |
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Post by darreno on Jun 14, 2024 20:54:34 GMT
Vivian Panka being in this is enough to get me to buy a ticket. Very interested to see what Ryan Kopel does with it too. Having seen him in Mormon and Newsies, (and I 'think' Parade too?), there's something fun about seeing someone's career develop over the years. DEH is a strange one for me, I can't even explain how much I was looking forward to seeing it the first time around, but it didn't hit the notes I expected it to. Now that seems likely to have been the fault of my own expectation rather than the show itself, so I will re-visit it again a couple more times free of expectation. No, I think you’re right about expectations of the piece. This is also tied into how it was sold, what it sounds like on record vs on stage, the zeitgeist at the time and how it tapped into current conversations around mental health. It sounds big…it isn’t big. It was multi-tracked to death…the stage was filled with screens instead of people. Yes there were big moments of emotion, yes the central performances were fantastic but it did not add up to a satisfying whole. To me it felt about as deep as a puddle, and I found the stories on the periphery far more affecting. I look forward to Notts Playhouse finding some depth at its heart. That's explained exactly how I felt about it. I understand why someone would try to do the screens thing to reflect how bullying/viral/whatever is communicated these days but I don't feel as though it worked for this. You've reminded me to book the Playhouse one though! One of my regular haunts as they put some really interesting things on over the year. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 6, 2024 19:42:32 GMT
Dear Evan Hansen film is on BBC 2 on Friday 14 June at 11.05pm. On iplayer too. Just watching it. Yes,I know we’re not allowed to like the film 🙄 but bog off to that, I do. |
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Post by SilverFox on Jul 15, 2024 10:46:03 GMT
Interesting (and refreshing) that a 'new' production of a recent show will tour - and Adam Penfold (director) is really finding his feet now at the Playhouse and scheduling some ground-breaking new work (eg The Punch) rather than sticking to tried-and-tested pot-boilers. I hope he does a good job with DEH - but some recent musicals, not directed by Penfold, were less-than good (Assassins and Sweet Charity for example). The Punch was a near sell-out success too! The Playhouse do some good prices, but overall have an irritating booking policy of only opening bookings on less than a third of the available seats when they have every expectation that it will be a box-office hit. I have nabbed good stalls seats at just £17.25 (incl membership discount) - the equivalent seats at Curve, later in the tour, are £58.50.
Back in the day, a new West End version of a Broadway show (and vice-versa) would not be a carbon copy of the original - maybe this will start a trend for tours having new creativity instead of a cut-down replica.
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