It’s already been a hard morning for Beau Woodbridge. He’s had several breakdowns. Or, rather, the same one on repeat.
The actor is deep into rehearsals for the Australian premiere of Dear Evan Hansen, the hit Broadway musical by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, a coproduction by Sydney Theatre Company and Michael Cassel Group that opens at Sydney’s Roslyn Packer Theatre this month before seasons in Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide. He’s playing the titular lead: an anxious teenager who, through a mix-up and misunderstanding – and a not-so-little white lie – has a hero’s mantle placed on him by his high school peers after the suicide of another student, Connor, who they believe was Evan’s friend.
