The Creative Team

The musical score has been written by the rising duo of Pasek and Paul.

Here's a great article on their background and accomplishments!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/theater/benj-pasek-justin-paul-dear-evan-hansen.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0


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Now, at the age of 31, after a decade of being touted as promising, up-and-coming, and ones-to-watch, Pasek and Paul have arrived.

Their first original musical, “Dear Evan Hansen,” a daringly heart-wrenching show that explores the charged interplay between collective grief and social media after a misconstrued high school suicide, begins previews Monday, Nov. 14 and is generating prize chatter even before it opens on Broadway Dec. 4. Five days later, their first live-action Hollywood movie, “La La Land,” a romantic Ryan Gosling-Emma Stone musical fantasia for which they wrote the lyrics, opens; that film was the hit of this year’s festival circuit.


But that’s not all. In an era in which the film and television industries are showing a renewed interest in musicals, they have written all the songs for a movie starring Hugh Jackman — a P. T. Barnum biopic called “The Greatest Showman” — which is now in rehearsal and scheduled for release late next year by 20th Century Fox.


“I love them,” said Robert Greenblatt, the chairman of NBC Entertainment, who hired the pair to write three songs for the television show “Smash,” and became so enamored that he is now a co-producer on “Dear Evan Hansen.” “To me, they’re the future of the musical, on stage or screen.”

Michael Gracey, the director of “The Greatest Showman,” had imagined asking a number of songwriters to contribute songs to his film, but, as he talked with Mr. Pasek and Mr. Paul about the movie, abandoned that plan to give them all the work. He even videotaped their songwriting sessions, convinced that they would be of significance for posterity. “I can’t even begin to describe the enormous impact those two have had on this film,” he said.