{"id":154635,"date":"2020-05-01T14:27:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=154635"},"modified":"2020-05-06T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:04:03","slug":"stull-reynolds-umw-theatre-dear-evan-hansen-reimagining-featured-in-fls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/05\/01\/stull-reynolds-umw-theatre-dear-evan-hansen-reimagining-featured-in-fls\/","title":{"rendered":"Stull, Reynolds&#8217; UMW Theatre &#8216;Dear Evan Hansen&#8217; Reimagining Featured in FLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anybody Have A Map? \u2013UMW Theatre Edition\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fgcZGzgZEss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>UMW Theatre&#8217;s reimagining of the song &#8216;Anybody Have a Map?&#8217; from the Tony Award-winning musical &#8216;Dear Evan Hansen&#8217; was recently featured in an article in <em>The Free Lance-Star<\/em>. Jon Reynolds, director of marketing and audience services, updated the lyrics with the permission of the show&#8217;s creators to reflect the students&#8217; common experiences in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em>The students recorded themselves singing individually in their own homes and submitted their videos. Director and theater department chair Gregg Stull and production supervisor Brandon Prendergast\u2014with help from James Gardiner, a deputy director at Washington, D.C.\u2019s Signature Theater\u2014edited the recordings together into a video that was posted to YouTube, where it has been shared several thousand times and was applauded by Broadway star Laura Benanti.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen we left campus on March 12, we held an important goal of keeping our students active and engaged while they were distant from us,\u201d Stull said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>UMW sponsored a trip to New York last year to see \u201cDear Evan Hansen,\u201d and the musical was a Common Read across campus in the 2018\u201319 academic year, Stull said, so it is familiar to many students.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe really wanted to create something with our students that gave them a chance to respond to their feelings and was hopeful in these uncertain times,\u201d Stull said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The changes to the song\u2019s spoken-word lyrics, which were approved by creators Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, reflect a post-coronavirus world in which classes are held via Zoom meeting, friends socialize after class virtually through Google Hangouts, in-person commencement ceremonies are postponed and toilet paper is hard to find. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredericksburg.com\/news\/local\/umw-theater-production-reimagines-dear-evan-hansens-anybody-have-a-map\/article_1f7893fb-e90d-56c6-ad37-3280c9109c87.html\">Read more.<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMW Theatre&#8217;s reimagining of the song &#8216;Anybody Have a Map?&#8217; from the Tony Award-winning musical &#8216;Dear Evan Hansen&#8217; was recently featured in an article in The Free Lance-Star. 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