Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Dear Evan Hansen” won’t be playing on Broadway “for forever.”The show, about a socially awkward high schooler who tells a spiraling lie, is ending its run in September, five years after winning the Tony for best musical.By the time the production closes on Sept.
18, “Dear Evan Hansen” will have played 1,678 regular performances and 21 preview performances. The number of regular performances would have been considerably higher, but the show shut down for 21 months starting in 2020 because of COVID-19.
It reopened on Dec. 11, 2021.Prior to Broadway’s forced hiatus, “Dear Evan Hansen” was one of the hottest tickets in town. The show became a sensation when it opened at the Music Box Theater in December 2016, garnering critical and commercial acclaim and cementing Ben Platt, who plays the title character, as a household name.
Given its popularity, the musical regularly attracted bold-face names like President Joe Biden, Beyonce, Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep and managed to recoup its investment in less than nine months.
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