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News Desk December 14th, 2018
History was made this week as Roman Banks was the first person of color to star as Evan Hansen on Broadway! The young star currently understudies Taylor Trensch in the role as well as the roles of Jared and Connor.
Banks made his debut as Evan Hansen at the December 12 performance alongside fellow actors of color, Phoenix Best who plays Alana Beck and Sky Lakota-Lynch who plays Jared Kleinman.
The current cast of Dear Evan Hansen also includes Jennifer Laura Thompson as Cynthia Murphy, Lisa Brescia as Heidi Hansen, Mallory Bechtel as Zoe Murphy, Alex Boniello as Connor Murphy and Michael Park as Larry Murphy.
What is Dear Evan Hansen about?
Dear Evan Hansen is a cautionary tale about how a lie can spread across a community before the truth even has its running shoes on. The Evan of the story is an anxiety-ridden high school misfit who is desperate for any form of recognition from his peers. So much so, that when his classmate commits suicide after suffering depression, a mysterious suicide note appears in the weeks after, seemingly addressed to Evan.
Now infamous by association with the dead teen, Evan finally gains the spotlight that he craves. However, with a traumatized local community, not to mention his family, starts begging Evan for more clues about Connor's state of mind, Evan's world starts to unravel with frightening speed. With Connor's parents and sister Zoe (who just happens to be Evan's crush) finding solace in the note, it isn't long before the powers of social media start to question its validity, and Evan's own motives.
Dear Evan Hansen is currently playing at the Music Box Theater.
More and more ingenious with each viewing. Dear Evan Hansen keeps revealing new charms and new truths. It is more hopeful than ever.
The New York Times
