🎠AUDITIONS: DEAR EVAN HANSEN
World Stage Theatre Company
9th Season: Stories of the Mind and Other Matters
World Stage Theatre Company is excited to announce auditions for DEAR EVAN HANSEN, the powerful, Tony Award-winning musical about connection, belonging, and the complicated ways we reach for one another in a world shaped by social media.
❤️ ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
Dear Evan Hansen explores mental health, loneliness, grief, social media, identity, family, and the universal desire to feel seen and understood.
As part of World Stage Theatre Company’s 9th Season: Stories of the Mind and Other Matters, this production invites audiences to consider what happens when the stories we tell ourselves—and each other—begin to take on lives of their own.
COME TELL YOUR STORY.
This is more than a musical about fitting in.
It’s about what happens when we all want to be found.
🎶 AUDITION DATES
Vocal Audition: Wednesday, September 9th at 6:30pm
Invited Callbacks: Sunday, September 13th at 6pm
📍 Location: World Stage Studio – 1130 S Harvard
🎤 WHAT TO PREPARE
NO SUBSTITUTIONS and bring your OWN Karaoke track on your smartphone or send to Machele Dill at echotheatreco@gmail.com wth the subject: DEH Audition Track/yourname:
Evan Hansen/ Jared Kleinman (separate characters but similar vocal requirements)
Range: Pop tenor, G2-C5
Timestamp 1:24 – 2:27 on OCR
Waving through a Window
Start: “We start with stars in our eyes”
End: “Oh, can anybody see, is anybody waving?”
Heidi Hansen/Cynthia Murphy (separate characters but same vocal requirements)
Range: Mezzo, F3 – Eflat5
Timestamp 0:44 – 1:23 on OCR
Anybody Have a Map?
Start: “Another stellar conversation for the scrapbook”
End: “I’m making this up as I go”
Zoe Murphy/ Alana Beck (separate characters but same vocal requirements)
Range: Pop belter, F3 – E5 with a G5
Timestamp 2:58 – 3:44 on OCR
Requiem
Start: “So don’t tell me that I didn’t have it right”
End: “Saying that I miss you and that my world has gone dark.”
Treat it like a solo – sing top line melody
Connor Murphy
Range: Baritenor, C3 – G#4
Timestamp Beginning to 1:08 on OCR
Disappear
Start: “Guys like you and me”
End: “Disappear”
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Larry Murphy
Range: Baritone, Bflat2 – G4
Timestamp 1:04 – 1:38 on OCR
To Break in a Glove
Start: “And though this method isn’t easy”
End: “The right way to break in a glove”
🌟 CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
**Please note: All roles are open. All ethnicities and gender identities encouraged to audition. Our intention is to cast as close to the character age range as possible.
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EVAN HANSEN
A painfully shy, socially anxious high school senior who longs to connect with the people around him. Evan is intelligent, sensitive, awkward, and deeply vulnerable. His desire to belong leads him into an increasingly complicated situation.
Vocal Range: Tenor
Playing Age: High school senior
CONNOR MURPHY
A troubled, isolated high school student who struggles to connect with his family and peers. Connor has a strong exterior that masks significant pain and vulnerability.
Vocal Range: Baritone/Tenor
Playing Age: High school student
ZOE MURPHY
Connor’s younger sister and Evan’s longtime crush. Intelligent, guarded, and independent, Zoe is navigating grief while trying to understand her complicated relationship with her family.
Vocal Range: Mezzo-Soprano
Playing Age: High school student
LARRY MURPHY
Connor and Zoe’s father and Cynthia’s husband. A successful professional who desperately wants to help his family but often struggles to communicate his feelings. Larry carries his own grief and frustration beneath a controlled exterior.
Vocal Range: Baritone
Playing Age: Adult
CYNTHIA MURPHY
Connor and Zoe’s mother. Loving, anxious, and overwhelmed, Cynthia desperately wants to reconnect with her son and keep her family together. She is deeply affected by Connor’s struggles.
Vocal Range: Mezzo-Soprano
Playing Age: Adult
HEIDI HANSEN
Evan’s single mother. A busy professional who loves her son deeply and wants to give him the support he needs. She carries guilt about not always being as present as she would like and is determined to build a better relationship with Evan.
Vocal Range: Mezzo-Soprano
Playing Age: Adult
ALANA BECK
An ambitious, high-achieving student who wants desperately to be involved and recognized. Alana is organized, driven, and sometimes awkward in her attempts to do the right thing. Beneath her confidence is a strong need for belonging.
Vocal Range: Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Playing Age: High school student
JARED KLEINMAN
Evan’s sarcastic, witty family friend. Jared uses humor and cynicism as a defense mechanism but ultimately becomes an important part of Evan’s journey. A strong comedic actor with excellent timing.
Vocal Range: Tenor/Baritone
Playing Age: High school student