Dear Evan Hansen comments

You know how in Dear Evan Hansen, during "You Will Be Found", a bunch of fake tweets come up all saying how important Evan's speech was to them? What if, some time down the line, they start using real tweets from people whose lives were affected by DEH? People with social anxiety or who were suicidal, or felt like the world was against them, who talk on social media about how the show helped them? I just thought that would be a really cool idea.

I'm not sure if they could use the audio from people who send it in (I'm not sure how that would work with Unions and what-not). But the actors doing the recorded voices could read them, and just take the "Dear" out of "Dear Evan Hansen"

I believe we all own the copyright on emails and tweets we send (even on this post I am writing now). If the messages are short, the show might use them and claim they fall under the "fair use" exception. (But I seem to recall someone telling me using all of anything, however short, is considered an infringement beyond fair use.)

If DEH becomes the massive hit that many here expect, some tweeters will be sure to sue.

I'm not a lawyer, obviously, and internet law is still evolving. Perhaps one of our lawyers would like to clarify the law here.

Probably so. Fact of the matter still is they'd probably have to ask permission.

And that was the only point I was making. I don't doubt they can find plenty of people who would give them permission.

On the other hand, some sort of permission form would have to be signed, so that's a lot of paperwork for the sake of novelty.

sondheimfan3 said:

In February I listened to an interview with Peter Nigrini, the projection designer, on the In 1 podcast, and he discusses the email address and says it was recently changed. Hard to believe they wouldn't have registered it before the show, but it slipped through the cracks. (By the way, if you're a fansen, I highly recommend listening to the interview. It changed how I experienced the show the next time I saw it. There's another good interview on the same podcast with Dear Evan Hansen's lighting designer Japhy Weideman, but it's a bit technical. The Peter Nigrini interview is really fascinating.)"

Thanks for the recommendation. Just listened to the whole thing and you're right - fascinating. I'm going to see it a 2nd time next Wednesday, and I'm sure I'll look at it a different way.

Josh