After a nearly three-week residency at the newly refurbished Palace Theatre in New York City that ends on June 15, Broadway star Ben Platt will kick off a 21-city tour (in the United States and Canada) in Boston on June 18 at the Boch Center Wang Theatre. In a recent phone interview, the 30-year-old Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner said his set will include a “sprinkling of something for everyone” — including songs from his past two albums and his new release, “Honeymind,” some covers, and numbers from some of the Broadway shows in which he’s starred (including “Dear Evan Hansen.”) Platt said his last tour was in larger, arena-type venues.
“As much as I enjoyed that, it did make me miss the slightly more intimate experience of more traditional proscenium theaters and beautiful natural amphitheaters like The Greek Theatre [in Los Angeles] and places like that,” he said. “So I’m really excited to perform in slightly more intimate settings and play music that’s a little warmer and more emotionally connective.” And while Platt said he loves performing in musical theater on Broadway, he said he also enjoys the “more creative freedom” his own tour affords him.
“I’m going to need to start it off with as much love as I can,” he said. “So I promise to throw it all onstage ..
. and I hope [the Boston audience] enjoys it as much as I do.” He will perform in Providence on June 20.
When the tour ends (in Seattle on July 27), Platt said he plans .