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Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album

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#75Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/2/17 at 11:14pm

Just released in full on iTunes. 


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icecreambenjamin
#76Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/2/17 at 11:24pm

I wish there was some more dialogue included, but it's an absolutely majestic recording.

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CATSNYrevival
#77Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/2/17 at 11:37pm

It does just start very abruptly. It really would have been nice to have the opening recorded but at the same time as an album it pulls you right in. There's enough dialogue on the rest of the album for someone who hasn't seen the show to follow along well enough. The sound quality is superb. 

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#78Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/2/17 at 11:40pm

Can't stop listening to "You will be Found"


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gypsy101
#79Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 12:30am

CATSNYrevival said: "There's enough dialogue on the rest of the album for someone who hasn't seen the show to follow along well enough."

ehhhh i disagree, i felt like most of the nuances of the story (which i haven't seen and mentioned above followed along to the synopsis on wikipedia) were completely lost, the songs weren't super story-specific. i'm also not really a fan of albums with lots of dialogue, though i know lots of people are (PS Classics overdoes it which many would call blasphemous). Still a good album though!


"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."

sparepart973
#80Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 2:24am

I saw this in December, and from the 10 shows I saw that month it was really the most impressive. 

I just need a quick reminder, can someone remind me how Evan breaks his arm? Perhaps this needs to be prefaced with a spoiler alert.

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tazber
#81Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 6:23am

It's a great recording.

 

The score is not as woven through as some musicals so some of the story is lost on the CR, but I think enough of it is there to be able to follow it even if you know nothing about the show.

 

One thing you really don't get is how painfully awkward (possibly on the spectrum?) Evan is.

 


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boonanas
#82Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 7:29am

sparepart973 said: "I saw this in December, and from the 10 shows I saw that month it was really the most impressive. 

I just need a quick reminder, can someone remind me how Evan breaks his arm? Perhaps this needs to be prefaced with a spoiler alert."


SPOILER

 

He claims he broke it falling out of a tree but it is later inferred that he purposely fell out to hurt himself... can anyone confirm this? Saw ithe awhile ago

 

 

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#83Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 7:33am

I listened to some of the preview and it is beautiful. But, I don't know if it's because I just woke up, but damn, my ears literally hurt because it's so loud! 

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steven22
#84Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 7:56am

Listening now. Can't stop smiling. 

ProducersFan
#85Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 9:59am

Today's going to be a great day! "For Forever" sounds gorgeous - I can't stop listening! I'm bummed they left off the reprise of "Sincerely, Me". I guess I should have paid more attention to the track listing in iTunes, but I was surprised to see it omitted while listening through the whole album this morning. Is it due to the lyric at the beginning? Or just didn't fit the flow of the album? The way Connor's character is is portrayed is brilliant, and I love the driving beat in that song (and reprise).


"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure." ~Roger Bart

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#86Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 10:22am

boonanas said: "sparepart973 said: "I saw this in December, and from the 10 shows I saw that month it was really the most impressive. 

I just need a quick reminder, can someone remind me how Evan breaks his arm? Perhaps this needs to be prefaced with a spoiler alert."


SPOILER

 
He claims he broke it falling out of a tree but it is later inferred that he purposely fell out to hurt himself... can anyone confirm this? Saw ithe awhile ago
"

It's implied that he attempted suicide by falling/jumping out of a tree.


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Whateverjsays
#87Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 10:41am

Saw it twice and I'm on my 3rd listen. I'm getting chills and teary eyed during 'Disappear' 'You Will Be Found' and 'So Big, So Small'

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#88Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 11:45am

http://www.playbill.com/article/dear-evan-hansen-cast-album-drops-feb-3


CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.

nonstopmachine
#89Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 12:58pm

The only problem is the producer make the music too loud in mastering. It sounds no dynamic at all. It's a muical recording,not a rock albem. Why did they make it SO LOUD???

mulligan3
#90Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 1:56pm

nonstopmachine said: "The only problem is the producer make the music too loud in mastering. It sounds no dynamic at all. It's a muical recording,not a rock albem. Why did they make it SO LOUD???"

 

Funny, I actually think that their voices come through better on the album than at the live show.  I find the music to drown them out a bit there. 

 

 

 

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#91Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 2:18pm

i think it's a very well produced album and like the rock feel that many of the songs have.


"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."

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macnyc
#92Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 2:21pm

I'll download it tonight when I get home, but I listened to the previews on iTunes. Occasionally the voices sound odd to me. Like Dreyfuss's voice doesn't sound like her in spots. Ben Platt too. Producers wouldn't be using Autotune for voices as good as these, right?

 

SarahNYC2
#93Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 3:45pm

So happy! Have been listening to Waving Through A Window and Requiem for the past week over and over!

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#94Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 3:50pm

I definitely hear some autotuning in the first part of You Will Be Found

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#95Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 6:01pm

Felt like it was easier asking this in here, but does anyone know if Alexis Molnar(the arena stage Alana Beck) didn't continue with the show on her own terms, or if it was a decision to let her go made by the creatives? If I were her I'd be flipping the ****. She missed out on all the hype of the show. I hope the show was developed with workshop contracts so she could be getting a slice of the dough.


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#96Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 6:08pm

The album is also streaming on Spotify!


"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, take the moment & making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
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#97Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 6:56pm

phan24 said: "I definitely hear some autotuning in the first part of You Will Be Found"

You "heard" auto tuning did ya? I hear bull****.  

 

 

 


CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.

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#98Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 7:45pm

macnyc said: "Occasionally the voices sound odd to me. Like Dreyfuss's voice doesn't sound like her in spots. Ben Platt too. Producers wouldn't be using Autotune for voices as good as these, right?"

eh i didn't notice much blatant auto tuning and i feel most cast recordings don't use much of it but i'm sure subtle use of it is used (like the subtle way most good singers are autotuned on albums). One cast recording i can think of with some used is Wicked, where Idina's many vocal quirks were frequently gotten rid of.


"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
Updated On: 2/3/17 at 07:45 PM

funhamilton_rent
#99Dear Evan Hansen Cast Album
Posted: 2/3/17 at 8:28pm

I am obsessed! My favorites are:

Good For You (SO FREAKING AMAZING), You Will Be Found, and Sincerely Me.

The one song I dislike even remotely is Anybody Have a Map. I feel like Jennifer and Rachel's voices sound too boring. They have a lot more emotion and "rock" sound in the show (and in the bootleg I have whoops).


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