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The Charleston Light Opera Guild, The Official Musical Theatre of West Virginia, will present the coming-of-age musical “Dear Evan Hansen” for 3 weekends February 5 thru 21, 2027 at the Charleston Light Opera Guild Theatre. Featuring a Tony Award-winning book by Steven Levenson and a score by Grammy, Tony, Emmy and Academy Award winners Benji Pasek and Justin Paul, “Dear Evan Hansen” is a new classic with a message that has resonated with audiences around the world: “You Will Be Found.”
Seventeen-year-old Evan Hansen has felt invisible his entire life. But when a tragedy strikes his community and thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, Evan is given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to be somebody else. As his web of well-intentioned lies begin to unravel, Evan is forced to confront the fact that the price of belonging may be far steeper than he bargained for.
The show opened on Broadway to rave reviews and struck an emotional chord with critics and audiences alike. It won six 2017 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the Drama League Award for Outstanding Musical Production, two Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and two Helen Hayes Awards.
AUDITIONS
AUDITIONS
SINGING AND READING: Friday, November 20, 2026 and Saturday, November 21, 2026 | 7:30 p.m.
Bring a musical selection and if not singing from the score, sheet music for the Guild accompanist.
Scripts will be provided for reading scenes and acting.
Rehearsals will not interfere with holidays.
*ALL AUDITIONS ARE AT THE GUILD THEATRE, 411 TENNESSEE AVE., CHARLESTON, WV.*
DIRECTION
DIRECTION
Director/Choreographer
Nina Denton Pasinetti
Musical Director
Christa Navy
Accompianst
John Patrick
Technical Director
Thomas P. Pasinetti
CHARACTERS
CHARACTERS
Ages 17 – adults. Evan, Zoe, Jared, Elana, and Connor are older teens but may be portrayed by youthful adults.
Evan Hansen – Smart, sincere, and excruciatingly self-conscious; prefers to hover in the background. A supporting player in his own life, too afraid to step forward into the spotlight and risk ridicule or, what might be worse, no one noticing him at all. Vocal range G2-C5; must play an older teen.
Heidi Hansen – Evan’s mother, overworked and stretched too thin; loves her son fiercely, but fears they have begun to grow apart; she is prepared to do anything to repair the damage. Singer/actress F3-Eb5.
Zoe Murphy – Connor’s sensitive and sophisticated sister. Sharp sense of humor; doesn’t care about the status games and popularity rites of high school; feels a terrible ambivalence over her brother’s death. Singer/actress; vocal range F3-E5.
Connor Murphy – An angry disaffected loner; has been a troubled kid all his life; Zoe’s older brother; an enigma and a source of endless consternation to his long-suffering parents. Actor/singer C3-G#4.
Cynthia Murphy – Connor and Zoe’s mother; seems like the perfect mother to Evan; nurturing, available, and willing to talk about anything; her relationship to her own children is more complicated. Actress/singer F3-E5.
Larry Murphy – Connor and Zoe’s father; a successful corporate lawyer; often tense and taciturn but shows a different side to the world; represents the perfect strong, confident, and reliable dad that Evan always wished for. Actor/singer Bb2-G4.
Jared Kleinman – Droll and sarcastic classmate of Evan’s; covers his own insecurities with a well-practiced swagger and a know-it-all arrogance. Actor/singer D3-B4.
Alana Beck – Evan’s female classmate and straight A student; earnest to a fault, prone to melodrama; hides a deeper loneliness beneath an ever-present smile and an almost aggressive friendliness. Actress/singer F3-E5.
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