The Tony-winning Dear Evan Hansen mines trauma and exploitation to find deep emotional connections

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Evan (Anthony Norman) and Zoe (Alaina Anderson) share a loving (and complicated) moment.

It can be easy to recoil when you actually hear the basic story of the acclaimed hit musical Dear Evan Hansen. A high schooler with no friends (Evan) fabricates a narrative that he was close with a classmate who committed suicide (Connor) to comfort his grieving parents, sparks up a relationship with the dead boy’s sister (Zoe), and goes viral with this fake inspirational tale.

Yikes! Feel free to cringe!

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