Dear Evan Hansen is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and book by Steven Levenson. The musical opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in December 2016, after its world premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. At the 71st Tony Awards, it was nominated for nine awards, winning six, including Best Actor in a Musical forBen Platt. A Universal Pictures film adaptation, co-produced by Marc Platt and directed by Stephen Chbosky, began production in 2020.
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Dear Evan Hansen is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and book by Steven Levenson. The musical opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in December 2016, after its world premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. A Universal Pictures film adaptation, co-produced by Marc Platt, the father of Ben Platt, and directed by Stephen Chbosky, began production in 2020. At the 71st Tony Awards, it was nominated for nine awards, winning six, including Best Actor in a Musical forBen Platt. The Musical has its origins in an incident that took place during PaseK’s high school years at Friends’ Central School. The show takes the notion of a teenager, Platt’s Evan Hansen, who invents an important role for himself in a tragedy that he did not earn. It was initially called The PPL Project, and Platt was involved in all of the readings and the workshop. In the musical, Evan is a teenager with social anxiety. He writes letters to himself detailing what will be good about each day. His mother, Heidi, suggests that he ask people to sign the cast on his arm to make friends. Evan wonders if this is his destiny — to be ignored and an outcast — for the rest of his life. He meets Alana, a precocious and somewhat self-absorbed classmate, and Jared, his only family friend. Both Alana and Jared notice his broken arm, but neither signs his cast.
Evan then runs into Connor, who interprets Evan’s awkwardness as making fun of him, resulting in Connor’s pushing Evan to the ground. Evan is called to the principal’s office and is told by Connor’s parents that Connor died by suicide days before, with Evan’s letter found in his pocket, which they believe is a suicide note addressed to him. Evan enlists Jared’s help in creating fake, backdated email conversations between himself and Connor. Evan shows the emails to his family and his friend, but Larry is hurt. Despite this, Evan and Alana notice that people are starting to forget about Connor. After reading the suicide note, Zoe notices that she is mentioned and tells him to leave. Overcome with emotion, he kisses her impulsively, but she pulls away and says she pulls him away. He then enlists Alana’s help to help in founding the Connor Project, so he can help others in need. He tells her he loves her under the guise of saying them. Evan tells her that Connor would say that he loves all the reasons he would say about her, but he can’t tell her the truth. He is unable to tell her about Connor’s suicide note. After he shows her the emails, Zoe still refuses to show him the truth, but they argue again. Evan leaves her a note saying that Connor took his privileged life for granted, and she tells him that she still loves him. He leaves her.
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