The first national tour of the six-time Tony-winning Dear Evan Hansen is in full swing! Originally opening on Broadway in 2017, the production's national tour kicked off in Denver on October 5. The production is scheduled to then continue onto a further 21 cities all over North America, finally ending in Washington in September of 2019.

With a score by Oscar-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Dear Evan Hansen garnered the coveted Bes Musical at the 2017 Tony Awards as well as earning the Grammy award for Best Musical Theater Album in 2018.

Ben Levi Ross leads the cast in the titular role with Jessica Phillips as Heidi Hansen, Jared Goldsmith as Jared Kleinman, Phoebe Koyabe as Alana Beck, Christiane Noll as Cynthia Murphy, Aaron Lazar as Larry Murphy, Marrick Smith as Connor Murphy and Maggie McKenna as Zoe Murphy.

What is Dear Evan Hansen about>

Dear Evan Hansen is a cautionary tale about how a lie can spread across a community long before the truth even has a look in. The eponymous 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 Connor 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.