DEAR EVAN HANSEN producer Stacey Mindich is pleased to announce
complete casting for the Tony Award®-winning musical’s First National Tour, which comes to Segerstrom
Center for the Arts January 1 -13, 2019.
Stage and TV star Jessica Phillips will play ‘Heidi Hansen’,
Tony Award® nominee Christiane Noll will play ‘Cynthia Murphy’, and Broadway veteran Aaron Lazar
will play ‘Larry Murphy.’ Marrick Smith and Maggie McKenna round out the Murphy family (as Connor
and Zoe, respectively), with Jared Goldsmith as ‘Jared Kleinman’ and Phoebe Koyabe as ‘Alana Beck’
completing the on-stage company. They join Ben Levi Ross in the title role.
Tickets to Dear Evan Hansen start at $35.75 and are on sale now at SCFTA.org, by calling (714) 556-
2787 and at the Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa. For inquiries about group tickets please
call the Group Services office at (714) 755-0236.
The 2:00 p.m. performance on Saturday, January 12, 2019, will include audio description, open captioning and sign-language interpretation. The Center offers many services for patrons with disabilities including removable
wheelchair locations, binoculars, and assistive listening devices.
To learn more visit
SCFTA.org/accessibilityinformation.
The winner of six 2017 Tony Awards
®, including Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen features a book by
Tony Award®-winner Steven Levenson, a score by Grammy®, Tony
® and Academy Award® winners Benj
Pasek & Justin Paul (La La Land, The Greatest Showman), and direction by 4-time Tony Award®
nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal).
Declared “One of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history” by The Washington Post’s Peter
Marks, Dear Evan Hansen opened at the Music Box Theatre to rave reviews on December 4, 2016,
where it’s broken all box office records and has struck a chord with critics and audiences alike.
In addition to winning six Tony Awards ®, Dear Evan Hansen has won numerous other awards, including
the 2017 Drama League Award for Outstanding Musical Production and for the off-Broadway production,
two Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards and two Helen Hayes
Awards. The show’s original cast recently won a Daytime Emmy Award for “Best Musical Performance on
a Daytime Talk Show” for their April 2017 performance of “You Will Be Found” on NBC’s “Today Show,”
only the second Broadway show in history to win that category. The Broadway production recently
celebrated its two-year anniversary with a special donation to the Smithsonian, where the show’s iconic
blue polo and arm cast will now be part of the permanent collection at the National Museum of American
History in Washington D.C.
The Grammy® Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of Dear Evan Hansen, produced by
Atlantic Records, was released in February 2017, making an extraordinary debut on the Billboard 200 and
entering the chart at #8 – the highest charting debut position for an original cast album since 1961 – and
went on to win the 2018 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
A special edition coffee table book authored by Levenson, Pasek and Paul, Dear Evan Hansen: through
the window (Grand Central Publishing / Melcher) is now available, offering an in-depth, all-access look at
the musical, including never-before-seen production photos and cast portraits, behind-the-scenes stories,
and a fully annotated script by the authors.
In addition to the touring production and the record-breaking Broadway production, Dear Evan Hansen
will launch its first international production in Canada, in March 2019 at Toronto’s Royal Alexandra
Theatre.
Segerstrom Center for the Arts is an acclaimed arts institution as well as a beautiful multi-disciplinary
cultural campus. It is committed to supporting artistic excellence, offering unsurpassed experiences and
to engaging the entire community in new and exciting ways through the unique power of live performance
and a diverse array of inspiring arts-based education and community engagement programs.
Previously called the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Segerstrom Center is Orange County’s
largest non-profit arts organization. In addition to its six performance venues, Segerstrom Center is also
home to the American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School.
The Center presents a broad range of programming for audiences of all ages, including international
ballet and dance, national tours of top Broadway shows, jazz and cabaret, contemporary artists, classical
music performed by renowned chamber orchestras and ensembles, family-friendly programming, free
performances open to the public from outdoor movie screenings to dancing on the plaza and many other
special events.
Segerstrom Center for the Arts is also proud to serve as the artistic home to three of the region’s major
performing arts organizations: Pacific Symphony, Philharmonic Society of Orange County and
Pacific Chorale, who contribute greatly to the artistic life of the region with annual seasons performed at
Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
Information provided is accurate at the time of printing but is subject to change. Segerstrom Center for the
Arts is a public, non-profit organization. “Segerstrom Center for the Arts” is a registered trademark.
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