On Thursday, Sept. 23, I sat down in the Manor Theatre in Squirrel Hill to watch the newly released “Dear Evan Hansen” in its leap from the stage to the screen. “Dear Evan Hansen” is the story of a severely anxious high school student (unconvincingly played by Ben Platt) who gets caught in a web of lies surrounding the suicide of fellow outsider, Connor Murphy.
When Connor is found with a letter Evan wrote to himself as a therapy assignment, the Murphy family (specifically Connor’s mother) finds solace in the fact that perhaps their son did have a friend after all. Evan quickly becomes welcomed into the Murphy’s family life, and gets closer to their daughter Zoe.
Source: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Film Gave Me Second-Hand Embarrassment – Point Park Globe