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Theater Talk - Creating "Dear Evan Hansen"

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Channel: CUNY TV · 2017 · Entertainment

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“Theater Talk” welcomes the creative team behind the 2017 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, “Dear Evan Hansen.” In this episode, taped five months before the Tony ceremony, THEATER TALK co-hosts Jesse Green of “The New York Times” and producer Susan Haskins-Doloff interview the production's composer/lyricists Justin Paul and Benj Pasek along with the show's librettist, Steven Levenson (all subsequent Tony winners for the show). The team discusses their inspiration for “Dear Evan Hansen”’s original story and their work together refining it into an insightful and revered piece of musical theater. Interspersed through the conversation, Pasek & Paul sing several songs from the production including "Waving Through a Window." The songwriting team also treats us to their first public performance together of  "City of Stars," a number they co-wrote with Justin Hurwitz for the movie “La La Land,” which later won the 2017 Academy Award for Best Original Song. (Taped: 01/26/2017)

Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 by series producer Susan Haskins. 

The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week's show. 

THEATER TALK is jointly produced by the not-for-profits Theater Talk Productions and CUNY TV. The program is taped in the Himan Brown TV and Radio Studios at The City University of New York (CUNY) TV in Manhattan, and is distributed to 100+ participating public television stations nationwide. THEATER TALK is made possible in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The CUNY TV Foundation, and The Friends of THEATER TALK.

Watch more Theater Talk at http://www.tv.cuny.edu/show/theatertalk

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