Living Lights Please excuse me... I know absolutely nothing about singing. What’s wrong with sitting and singing? I don’t sing if it isn’t obvious lol.

Hey Riley, figured I’d step in and answer your question as quickly as I can. Standing up when singing makes it A LOT easier to support your voice. It makes it much easier to open the rib cage and tighten the lower ab muscles, enabling the diaphragm to become fully engaged. Doing this helps you to sing high notes with a lower amount of strain, and allows for a combination of the soft palate being lifted and the larynx going down. This means that he has a great amount of space to add head resonance making it easier to nail the high note. The fact that he can manage to support a Bb4 note at the end of the song while sitting down shows how comfortable he is with the support of his voice. Hope that helps!

Yeah he has a fat ass range for a baritone... amazing!

Garrett Callahan That helps a lot actually! Thanks for explaining.

Riley E No problem Riley! Happy I could help :)

yeah he is really good. but if you want to see the best performance then watch either of the Bens as Evan. they truly NAIL IT.

The ticks are good but the anxiety doesnt reflect his voice. Watch Ben's

I kinda love the way he sings it tho. When I get insecure while singing i start to play with it or not sing "seriously" because i feel insecure idk if that makes sense

Katrina Keith Aratea you dont need to have a certain voice to have bad anxiety. i have terrible anxiety and i sound the exact opposite of the type of voice you’re thinking of

@@notkth9604 You're speaking non sense. Shut up next time.

Josephine Taylor you kinda have to in order to hit the notes so you don’t trip yourself out

Cole Smith not to mention that he’s literally Evan Hansen on Broadway- so he kinda has to be in character while singing it

trueeee he was doing all the little fidgety things he does on stage when he plays evan

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Ya know I think he’d make a cool JD

Ella Aiyana I agree.

OMG YES-

omg i would cry

Caitlin Elizabeth YESSSSSSSS

ForumTrash Bin that’s called bad acting.

Briana Rodriguez no...

Briana Rodriguez It’s actually amazing acting. The actors who portray Evan all do an amazing job of portraying someone with severe anxiety. sometimes anxiety causes you to do little tick-like things that you don’t even notice like biting your nails, messing with your shirt or clothes, heavy blinking, stuttering etc,.

Kpop Trash I have these ticks while I'm having what I call 'silent anxiety attacks' that can happen anywhere at any time and they are triggered by the most random things, this makes me really good at acting as characters like Evan cause I don't even need to do anything I will probably have an attack anyway

And have a insane vocal range.

Agreed.

Landon Thompson yess

facts. I'd say it goes 1. Ben Platt 2. Ben Levi Ross 3. Jordan

Jordan’s amazing but I also think Andrew Barth Feldman was amazing :)

Katherina Batu i saw him live and thought he was the perfect fit appearance wise PLUS he was really talented :)

Matthew Wandell LMAO I THOUGHT THAT TOO!

That's acctually pretty real

He kind of was because he played John Laurens/Phillip in Hamilton for a bit.

Lucy Porteous no way really?? that’s so cool

Actually has worked with Lin Manuel Miranda multiple times so it's not impossible.

Everyone is comparing him to Ben because Ben is the best Evan there will ever be. Ben has the look, the voice, and the ticks. Jordan is extremely talented but his voice isn't as good as Ben's and he doesn't portray the anxiety as well as Ben either. He also doesn't just doesn't have that nerdy, awkward look cuz Jordan isn't those things. He's more of a cool, stereotypiclly good looking guy. So although he is a very talented actor and singer he just isn't the percent Evan. Ben Platt was the perfect Evan and Ben Levi Ross was the second best Evan.

@@MadisonAiello I actually prefer Jordan to Ben

Catherine L was Jordan your first Evan or something

@@disconsolate3235 No i just don't really like Ben's Evan, i feel like he was a really unlikeable character while jordan manages to capture the awkwardness while still being likeable and charming, i also find his voice to be really soothing

Catherine L I agree that Jordan is more charming but that’s why I prefer ben’s Evan. Cuz Evan is supposed to be a bumbling all over the place mess whereas jordans can come off as smooth. Idk bens just feels raw and sincere, especially his vibrato and ticks and demeanour, his eyes and just how he carries himself. It’s incredible. Jordan is a great singer but he’s a little too smooth and cool to be the perfect Evan

Chloe Keene especially considering the fact he was sitting 😧

This is no baritone.

Grant Halverson he is actually! It blows my mind.

Jack Guhl he’s a baritenor. operatically he would be a Lyrical Tenor so while his low range is nice he can also support himself heavily in the upper octaves lol

malachithomas1 oh thank you that makes much more sense.

so many people dont even realise that this was on dear evan hansen's tiktok and not his own too lmao its like why do you think they asked him to go live on their own account? because free clout? lmao

They can know and still be shOOk

Or the few negative nancy's that were like no I don't think so. No? Well Broadway does so...💁

i know i’m so jealous of it

his range wasnt really even showed off in this how do you know💀💀

in my opinion, mena massoud was the perfect aladdin since he sounded pretty much like the original and performed really well!

Jordan isn't middle eastern, and therefore couldn't have played Aladdin.

hiimhunter aladdin doesnt have to be middle eastern to play it

And that comment exemplifies the issue I have with casting in musicals at the moment. You desperately want to cast a POC but it doesn't matter if they're the right ethnicity for the role. They're just NOT WHITE. Imagine being that talented and having your entire ability and personhood as a performer boiled down to "yeah cast him coz he's not white". Honestly putting myself in their shoes, I'd be insulted. Cast because they're the best choice, not purely on skin. That's not the person. Having said all that Jordan would be a killer Aladdin I reckon.

S. O I ☕️!!!!!!!

Mackenzie you’re not crazy but I’ve always doubted myself cuz I don’t even know why exactly he reminds me of him 😂

He looks like a mix between Brendon and this kid I knew in high school

YES

I've been thinking about this a lot. I think it's the big eyes and the facial expressions! And the voice is somewhat similar/they have similar singing style.

Facial structure is similar, for sure.

Thank you for this 😂

OMFG I AM SO GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE

“liv and mad I” lmaooo ok

Periodddd

YES

I know!! Why don't they say OmG dEaR eVaN hAnSeN??!!

@@-thisaccountisdead-3422 right

LMAO

it just means they’ve known him since liv and maddie lmao

dobrikswhy or it means that’s only place they know him from 🤷🏽‍♀️

strawberriemilk 1 wait omg have u met him before??

ya

Jalyn Robinson woah that’s so cool!!!

WAIT WHAT WHAT DOES HER MOM PLAY also have u met andrew barth feldman lmao

emma lol i live 5 minutes from andrew and my accompanist at my college did the starwars show with him and plays with him all the time

ImD AChillPotato:3 no problem! Did he sing something at the beginning? I missed the first half 😩

Jacqueline Hope yeah he sang For Forever, but I think if you search it up it’ll appear.

ImD AChillPotato:3 ahh nooo I cant believe I missed that. Fingers crossed someone recorded it

Same

@@reagankelchner yessss

does it qualify as a cover if he's technically the official Broadway Evan? (no hate! it's a genuine question I came up with haha)

Robert Boskind i saw it the day before it closed i was blessed haha

I'm going this weekend 😍😍

Barth feldman solos

Isn't he scheduled to be gone by July? Of course everything is up in the air right now, but he started Jan 28 for 16 weeks.

@@EdwardTonai I'm guessing he'll still be around in July because of the way things are going now

i really do hope it’s all back to normal by july. i’m going to be REALLY upset if they have to cancel the shows because of the coronavirus

Reopens this weekend with him in it ❤

Than Diam he’s the main Evan on Broadway. He replaced Andrew.

He was in the middle of a 16week engagement right before all of broadway closed.

I wonder if he will carry on his contract longer because of everything?

I hope so!

He was supposed to play Evan but...yknow....broadway kinda shut down. Like the rest of the world

Alix Hudspeth i agree completely