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There is a new musical opening on Broadway this November called Dear Evan Hansen. It's about a senior in high school who has social anxiety and he writes a letter that gets misinterpreted and he finds himself wrapped up in a lie.
As soon as I heard that the main character had social anxiety and no friends, I knew that I had to see this show. I love musicals to begin with, but I was very excited to see that social anxiety/loneliness/isolation was going to be the topic of a musical. I just saw it in May when it was Off-Broadway and the show was incredible and Ben Platt's (he was in Pitch Perfect) performance as the highly anxious Evan Hansen was very, very moving. I was seriously sobbing because I related to the main character so much. I didn't even have a friend to go see the show with. I live near Boston so I took the train from Boston to NYC to see this show all by myself. And once it comes to Broadway, I will be doing the same thing again because I want to see this show again so badly and I don't care if I have to go see it alone.
Here is one of the main songs from the show called, "Waving Through a Window."
"On the outside always looking in
Will I ever be more than I've always been"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYa0WPCg-HY
As soon as I heard that the main character had social anxiety and no friends, I knew that I had to see this show. I love musicals to begin with, but I was very excited to see that social anxiety/loneliness/isolation was going to be the topic of a musical. I just saw it in May when it was Off-Broadway and the show was incredible and Ben Platt's (he was in Pitch Perfect) performance as the highly anxious Evan Hansen was very, very moving. I was seriously sobbing because I related to the main character so much. I didn't even have a friend to go see the show with. I live near Boston so I took the train from Boston to NYC to see this show all by myself. And once it comes to Broadway, I will be doing the same thing again because I want to see this show again so badly and I don't care if I have to go see it alone.
Here is one of the main songs from the show called, "Waving Through a Window."
"On the outside always looking in
Will I ever be more than I've always been"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYa0WPCg-HY