During its development, the creators of Dear Evan Hansen, a fantastically poignant Broadway musical that opened Sunday, had one rule: no lockers. “We never wanted lockers onstage,” says the playwright Steven Levenson (Core Values, The Language of Trees). “That was always our thing. We never wanted any lockers onstage, people dancing with lockers.”
Dear Evan Hansen is a high school musical unrelated to the chirpy, toothy likes of High School Musical or more anodyne Broadway fare such as School of Rock or Wicked. The first original musical by the composers Ben Pasek and Justin Paul (Christmas Story, Dogfight, La La Land), it has a book by Levenson and direction by Michael Greif, who has had his greatest successes with unflinching portrayals of youth (Rent, Next to Normal). A story of isolation in a hyperlinked world, it is written and performed with an emotional acuity that defies hashtag simplifications and 140-character limits.
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