Musician Reacts To Dear Evan Hansen - Waving Through a Window

[@lauranogueira13]

So the guys who wrote the songs are Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, they also wrote the songs for la la land (they won an oscar for city of stars), the greatest showman, the new song from the Aladdin live action and they also wrote another musical called dogfight. They met doing musical theater at the university of Michigan and they decided to write the songs for dear evan hansen when they were talking about their high school experiences and Benj started talking about this girl who died when he was in school and how everyone suddenly wanted to have a connection with her and how much people felt the need to connect to someone who died even if they didn't actually know the person. Ben was casted pretty early on because he had once auditioned for dogfight but he was too young for that at the time. So Benj and Justin already knew him from that and from when he did the book of mormon on broadway. He started his jorney with the show doing workshops in 2014 and his last curtain call was in november of 2017.

[@Juliak0410]

i didn’t know all this thank you for sharing!

[@lauranogueira13]

@@Juliak0410 of course : )

[@kayleigha8389]

@@lauranogueira13 They also co wrote P!nk's new song, All I Know So Far, which is pretty cool!

[@sabahk]

I believe they only wrote the lyrics for la la land, didn't actually compose it. But wow I had no idea Ben auditioned for Dogfight

[@hanson9441]

Yes! I love this musical so much. Maybe react to some of his live performances?

[@catemcnair9329]

I read somewhere that that 1/8th note that goes through the song is a representation of Evan's anxiety (i believe it's on an a as well), i might be wrong but if so thats a cool element of the symbolism behind the song

[@ziggystardog]

I believe it’s also a motif that represents the pace of social media through people’s lives. The pre show follows a social media feed and people are all running back and forth isolated but physically together which is the point of the show. It drops out when he talks about falling in a forest.

[@MeganTheLibrarian3]

Excited you're doing Dear Evan Hansen! When you're done, you should check out Come From Away! It's seriously one of my favorite musicals mostly because the story is so beautiful (and it's also hilarious, which is unexpected for a show related to the events of 9/11). They are filming it and releasing it this fall similarly to how they did Hamilton, I believe. Very different music. More dialog than singing, but really cool Newfoundland-style band!

[@hiitsjess4703]

The song was written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Both also wrote music for “The Greatest Showman” and “LaLa Land” I love this song in particular because it’s touches on how sometimes we watch these lives through social media these happy moment, events, milestones and often feel left out. We’re “tap tap tapping on the glass” of our phones waving at digitally with our likes and comments hoping someone to notice and reply back.

[@colliedog2020]

Alex Lacamoire did quite a bit of the arrangements for Dear Evan Hansen too

[@jeffreystine1889]

And Wicked, Hamilton, Greatest Showman...he is a genius!

[@dearevanhansenfanatic5313]

Love this! Just subbed and can't wait to watch all your DEH content. BTW, you should see what's happening on stage while this is being sung - the whole show is just amazing.

[@reneebush2399]

Such a fantastic visual of social anxiety disorder. My husband has Social Anxiety Disorder, but he hasn’t see the show yet.

[@kadenbrunner4238]

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote the songs for it. Alex Lacamoire did many of the orchestrations as well.

[@joshochoa]

I never noticed just how dry Ben’s vocal was until you pointed it out! His skill is insane! 🤯

[@Juliak0410]

my favorite song in the show!

[@Juliak0410]

it’s evan singing about how he feels like an outsider, due to his social anxiety and insecurities he feels alone

[@a7xguitar666]

@@Juliak0410 its a new take and spin on the classic "i want" song. Most "i want" songs are whimsical and bright, whereas this one is very lonely and tinged with sadness and loneliness

[@Juliak0410]

@@a7xguitar666 totally!

[@dannysimion]

Yeah! Great choice to review. Love Evan Hansen's soundtrack! Love Ben Platt!

[@Hamilgoth2002]

Hello! Ive been making my way through your old videos and I would like to request you check out Hadestown! It's a musical, many people say it's one of the greatest musicals of all time. It's about Greek mythology but the way its told and sounds is unlike most tellings of Greek mythology

[@kadenbrunner4238]

YES

[@MyRadar23]

YES YES YES

[@darsynia]

The jazziness of this musical charms even me, who hates jazz! Hah.

[@annatabner8459]

Its decent but I’ve never heard anyone say it’s one of the greatest musicals of all time..

[@ziggystardog]

It will be the first to start up when they reopen Broadway, so that a possible ‘hook’ to review it. It was originally a folk show and concept album that took a very long road to Broadway. The songwriter is natively a guitarist which is a rare thing in Broadway type shows.

[@larrylynam9956]

I think you will really take a liking to Spring Awakening. A very well established rock musical with great contemporary elements!!

[@bobl4439]

Watch his performance at the Tony Awards of this song...it was great. He won the Tony that night.

[@marilynelliott5546]

Seen Dear Evan Hansen - The Movie 🤩🤩 Ben’s vocal’s are fantastic 🔥🥰 Love his voice and him so much 😍😘

[@Spendingdarkness]

Pleaseee “sincerely me” but the musical, 😍😍😍, but “good for you” … ufff, this musical is more cool !!!

[@JacobRestituto]

🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@63adzm]

you need to react to 4 Evans singing For Forever featuring 4 Evan Hansen from different productions

[@danue]

The arrangement of this song is super inspired by The Wizard and I from Wicked. Wicked has so many bops, you should give it a try to the soundtrack.

[@JacobRestituto]

Nice!

[@MyRadar23]

YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT HADESTOWN!!!

[@ellascarfe644]

you should react to the 4 evans ‘for forever’

[@JacobRestituto]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@goodenergy752]

React to more little mix music!! Love BROADWAY too

[@maxirvin]

If u love the drummer in this song, then u gotta listen to You Will Be Found. He goes off!!!!

[@JacobRestituto]

sick1

[@lau_29]

Please react to Good for you, also from Dear Evan Hansen, I really love that song

[@jmilitala14]

Please react to more of Ben Platt's LIVE perfomances of this musical.

[@JacobRestituto]

🙏🏼

[@ProudAmerican1829]

If you haven't already, you should now go listen to Pentatonix's version.

[@nathansun2480]

lol thats what I was thinking.. until I found this kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJTaoINrrM2opKc

[@marylalari1]

I don’t know if you know, but alex lacamoire in partially def, so in hamilton or dear evan hansen he followed rules more than feelings…

[@bright896]

HIGHLY recommend checking out Katy Perry's version. it was beautiful

[@JacobRestituto]

nice!!

[@discoveralexis]

He sang this on Jimmy Fallon! Please react !!!

[@darsynia]

I strongly recommend checking out Mallory Bechtel's video (with our guy Alex Lacamoire on piano!!) of Requiem from the same musical, here's the link! kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6PPYqR7rtaZmas Lots of guitar, song's about the loss of her brother, who treated her very poorly, and how she's expected to be ripped up by the loss, but she isn't. Very powerful. ('Cause when the villains fall, the kingdoms never weep')

[@JacobRestituto]

cool thank you!

[@kate2503]

Pls more- maybe consider reading the Wikipedia tho

[@Emilaria]

Dude I love your reactions, but you stopped so much on this one to comment on the music I’m not sure how you actually heard the song lyrics.

[@JacobRestituto]

thanks for the feedback

[@elliemo10]

From what I’ve watched of his videos, he typically focuses more on the musical elements rather than the lyrics! It’s more his area of expertise since he’s a musician himself so he seems to be more passionate about the actual music production ☺️ I personally really like hearing him break down the technical music aspects rather than the lyrics because I can kind of decipher those myself, but I wouldn’t be as well versed in the music side of things!

[@Emilaria]

@@elliemo10 I like when he breaks everything down too, but feel like even for him he stopped too much to even absorb and fully listen to all of the instrumentation.

[@matthewmaclellan]

Kind of felt like Musician Tries to Play Dear Evan Hansen - Waving Through a Window By Ear? I love your reaction videos, but...

[@wonhonamchan]

please react to katy perry’s version of this song! 💗💗💗

[@zeeon9662]

Pentatonix version are good too

[@ryanmcconnaughay5078]

he actually reacted to the PTX version recently! check it out.

[@zeeon9662]

@@ryanmcconnaughay5078 oh okay.thank u pal👍

[@a7xguitar666]

Its a different take. Not my cup of tea because it is very much a pop rendition of the song, but i do recognize pentatonix are extremely talented

[@jordanlevin7117]

These videos are hard to watch lol you don’t even appreciate the lyrics or anything you don’t listen to the actual singing.

[@JacobRestituto]

Doing my best, sorry to hear you didn’t enjoy

[@jordanlevin7117]

@@JacobRestituto it’s totally ok, I guess it’s just not for me. I was more looking for reactions to the actual songs where I guess your channel is more of a tribute to the music and orchestra in broadway. All good