Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich with Steven Levenson, Banj Pasek and Justin Paul
When a letter that was never meant to be seen draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family’s grief over the loss of their son, Evan is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to pretend that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.
Suddenly, Evan isn’t invisible anymore- even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy’s parents have taken him in like he’s their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his “close friend”. As Evan gets pulled deeper into the family’s swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows what he’s doing can’t be right, but if he’s helping people, how wrong can it be?
No longer incapacitated with anxiety or hiding from the disappointment in his mothers eyes, this new Evan has a purpose. And confidence. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face-to-face with his greatest obstacle: himself.
A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this bighearted story of grief, authenticity, and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.
When a letter that was never meant to be seen draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family’s grief over the loss of their son, Evan is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to pretend that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.
Suddenly, Evan isn’t invisible anymore- even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy’s parents have taken him in like he’s their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his “close friend”. As Evan gets pulled deeper into the family’s swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows what he’s doing can’t be right, but if he’s helping people, how wrong can it be?
No longer incapacitated with anxiety or hiding from the disappointment in his mothers eyes, this new Evan has a purpose. And confidence. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face-to-face with his greatest obstacle: himself.
A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this bighearted story of grief, authenticity, and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.
