PISER: So I was a part of the original Toronto production, and I was so fascinated, as an American being up there, that they actually changed some of the script, um, to kind of, like, be more reflective of the audience that I was playing to. So, have there been any changes to the Dear Evan Hansen script for the London production?
TUTTY: Uh, yes, there have been. There were, there were a few, um, changes, uh, I think — to remember them now is impossible — but, like, you know, we didn’t have, like, Trader Joe’s dumplings. Like, there’s a, there’s a, there’s a line that, um, that Heidi Hansen says [PISER: Yeah.] at the beginning of the show. Uh, I think, it’s just after Waving, I think, um… [PISER: Yep.] And we just, we just, we just scrapped it, we didn’t even replace it with any-, because it was like, I think, like, we don’t really need to know what they are? Um, so yeah, we’ve done, there were a few, actually. And there was a few lines that Zoe says — Lucy Anderson, who plays Zoe — we were just like, this is not gonna land. Um, like, we, we barely got away with, um, uh, “Pottery Barn,” whatever that is. [PISER: Pottery —] Like —
PISER: Oh my God, I just caught, I just caught a glimpse into the American dialect. Incredible. “Pottery Barn.” Wow.
TUTTY: I can’t say it in a British accent, it sounds outrageous. But, um, but yeah, so, like, we, we kept a few things, but yeah. Yeah, so things were very, changed quite, quite, quite dramatically, I think, yeah.
PISER: Well, I’m very sorry that you have never tried a Trader Joe’s dumpling. They are, in fact, incredible.
TUTTY: What do you reckon Evan’s favorite film is?
PISER: His favorite film? [TUTTY: Yeah.] Oh my God, that is —
TUTTY: Because I, you know, it’s, for me, things like that just, like, really fill in — not that there are many gaps to his personality that are written on, that has been, that’s been written, we’ve got, we’ve got so much, you know, stuff to work with — but I love stuff about that, like — do you know what I mean?
PISER: That, that is an incredible question. Let’s see here. I — I feel like… he might be, like, a film buff? He might be? Like, he might be because he’s, like, generally alone a lot of the time, and likes that? [TUTTY: Yeah, definitely.] I feel like he’s a fan, I feel like he’s a fan of the classics. Like, I feel like [TUTTY: Yeah.] he’s, he’s, he’s definitely got that going for him. He might be, like, a Star Wars person, maybe by virtue of his friendship with Jared, that he’s like, “Jared likes this, so I also like this.” [TUTTY: Astounding.] But that’s a great question. I feel like… I don’t know, what would you say? What do you think?
TUTTY: Well, the thing — I was going for that kind of sci-fi [PISER: Yeah.] bible, you know, like, Back to the Future, things like, you know, like, old, and, you know, the classics, but like, that are still so current, you know. I think, I think stuff like that, like really sci-fi, Star Wars, Star Trek, stuff like that, like —
PISER: Well, great minds think alike. [TUTTY: Great minds!] But I feel like, it’s definitely because he has a lot of those Fridays, Saturdays alone, as we learn at the very top of — what does Heidi say? [TUTTY: When Mom’s working!] There you go. Like, what is, what is, what does Heidi say? She’s like, she’s like, “I don’t want another night of you sitting at home on your computer every night telling me you have no friends.” So I feel like he’s got his, like, classic kind of, lineup of shows that he’s like, [TUTTY: He’s got a rhythm.] “Okay, tonight it’s me and this.”
