'These soulful songs would fit as comfortably on the pop charts as on a stage—you definitely will recognize their ability to capture emotion in words & music that speak straight to the heart.' - DarylHMiller on 'Edges,' from DearEvanHansen's songwriters
In this age of instant communication, he can’t manage to say anything.
Bradley Kaye has designed a sort of celestial cabaret space that’s sky blue, the color of possibility. At the back sit an electric keyboardist , an electric bassist and a drummer. Up to 98 viewers can watch from rows lining three sides of the performing area. To songs about decisions to be made and chances to be taken, Elizabeth Curtin brings a fluttering, introspective voice, Sarah Pierce a duskier, playful one, Jewell Holloway a contemplative resonance and Tyler Marshall an ethereal tenor.
Director James Michael McHale keeps each number rooted in truth. Choreography, when appropriate, emerges out of everyday movement.Although prone to the occasionally missed pitch, the singers blend beautifully when combined in duets or, still more gloriously, quartets, as in the final, hopeful number: “Like Breathing.” Pasek and Paul’s “Dear Evan Hansen” star,
that he and some high school friends performed “Like Breathing” for a senior recital here in L.A., and from then on, he was “obsessed” with the songwriters.These soulful songs would fit as comfortably on the pop charts as on a stage, and although you won’t necessarily hear precursors to the soaring, shoot-for-the-stratosphere tunes the pair tend to write nowadays, you definitely will recognize their ability to capture emotion in words and music that speak straight to the heart.
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