Dear Evan Hansen – Val Emmich
Ebook provided by NetGalley for review. Thank you.
Read May 19
Just to clarify I had never heard of the musical before reading this
and I haven’t listened to any of the music since. A boy – Connor Murphy – takes
his own life and is found with a note in his pocket addressed “Dear Evan
Hansen”. Evan is a loner who has issues with anxiety. One of his therapy tasks
is to write letters to himself. Connor steals his letter and this is found with
his body. Along with Connor having signed the cast on Evan’s broken arm this
leads Connor’s parents, and later everyone else, to believe that Connor and
Evan were best friends when in reality they barely knew each other. I like the
way the story unfolded from the dishonest way that Evan creates fake emails
between himself and Connor with a friend’s help to the fact that he uses his
new popularity to create the ‘Connor Project’, a website to raise money and
help those with mental health issues. Evan’s growth throughout was brilliant,
but I think – especially due to a stage show’s nature of focusing only on a few
people – that character development in the side characters suffered a little
bit, I’d have liked more on them.
4/5 stars
Stef Out x
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