Dear Evan Hansen - Noel Coward

Not everyone wants a fun night out at the theatre. I mean, people are still going to see 'Wicked'.

ERrrrrrrrr DOGFIGHT?

So the wheels are certainly in motion!

It’s going to happen, as will Come From Away and Waitress will, even though Comet said it will, it probably won’t.

DEH will do well, if the producers are sensible, by which I mean putting this in a small house, like the Savoy or Gielgud. American producers seem much shrewder these days and not try and get the same box office as Broadway where the producers use to overreach themselves and put their show in too big theatres*.

The 2 composers are well known names over here now, also you cast a young British actor or maybe one that had a successful pop career, then this could sore.

*American In Paris aside.

I think DEH have a chance of coming over but they need the right theatre,

And as long as it also says “featuring Tony Award winner Ben Platt”

Although I know from this news that is very unlikely... a boy can dream though!

After seeing BP’s replacement Noah Galvin on Broadway,I’d say that the show virtually stands or falls on whoever is playing the lead. I absolutely loved the score before I saw the show,but was bitterly disappointed when I got to see the production,because in my opinion, Noah Galvin got it all wrong.
He played it pretty much one note throughout and was overdoing the tic-being, stammering and gurning so much that it completely changed the nature of Evan’s character/issues.
I’d love to see Ben Platt, but if he doesn’ come over, I’m sure there are MT actors in the UK who could shine in the role, but the part demands a great actor as well as a great singer. Without that, to me anyway, the show is really nothing special.

I think it's interesting that they are going "color blind". Let's say they cast a black Evan, should we pretend it's "blind casting" and it's a black guy playing white boy? Or can we take it at face value and could Evan actually be black, white, Asian, Hispanic, etc?

I enjoyed the show a lot when I saw it in 2016. Ben Platt and the rest of the company were fantastic. I remember once having a conversation with two friends about how the show was "very white". One of them rolled his eyes, the other totally agreed. There's an alternative reading of Evan's character that doesn't bode well with its fans, is that Evan is really a horrible, opportunistic liar and not just a victim of circumstance, and despite the damage he creates, all is magically forgiven by the play's conclusion. I sometimes wonder if this was a black kid, would he be off the hook so easily? Would he even get the benefit of the doubt, especially with this set in America where society is so programmed to see black boys a lot less innocent than white kids?

Going color blind, or throwing the OBC color composition of its characters and starting all over again could actually provide a different dimension to the show.

Exactly. He could also be adopted. Or even the mother can be a POC.

Interestingly one of the Broadway understudies for Zoe is a black girl (I would also guess she's the understudy for Alana). Is she just an actress playing a role of a character who is white or is she adopted by this white family? I don't think there's a right or wrong answer - but I think there is a difference between opening it up so that none of the roles are color-specific vs blind casting and then deracialize these actors.

Gotta say, this would work for me!

I wish.