Evan Hansen

Smart, sincere, and excruciatingly self-conscious, Evan 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.

Gender: male

Vocal range top: C5

Vocal range bottom: G2

Heidi Hansen

Evan’s mother. Overworked and stretched too thin, Heidi loves her son fiercely, but fears they have begun to grow apart. She is prepared to do anything to repair the damage. 

Gender: female

Vocal range top: Eb5

Vocal range bottom: F3

Zoe Murphy

Sensitive and sophisticated, with a sharp sense of humor, Zoe could care less about the status games and popularity rites of high school. She feels a terrible ambivalence over her brother’s death. 

Gender: female

Vocal range top: E5

Vocal range bottom: F3

Connor Murphy

An angry, disaffected loner, Connor has been a troubled kid for as long as anyone can remember, an enigma and a source of endless consternation to his long-suffering parents. 

Gender: male

Vocal range top: G#4

Vocal range bottom: C3

Cynthia Murphy

Connor and Zoe’s mother. To Evan, she seems to be the perfect mother, nurturing, available, and willing to talk about anything. To her own children, it’s a bit more complicated. 

Gender: female

Vocal range top: E5

Vocal range bottom: F3

Larry Murphy

 Connor and Zoe’s father. Though often tense and taciturn, Larry shows a different face to the world, representing for Evan the dad he always wished for: strong, confident, and more than anything, reliable, someone to be counted on.

Gender: male

Vocal range top: G4

Vocal range bottom: Bb2

Jared Kleinman

Droll and sarcastic, Jared covers his own insecurities with a well-practiced swagger and a know-it-all arrogance.

Gender: male

Vocal range top: B4

Vocal range bottom: D3

Alana Beck

Earnest to a fault, prone to melodrama, Alana hides a deeper loneliness beneath an ever-present smile and an almost aggressive friendliness.  

Gender: female

Vocal range top: E5

Vocal range bottom: F3