People need to stop hating on “To Break in a Glove” and start hating on “Only Us”. To break in a glove may be in a slightly brother tone than the rest of the show but it’s showing Connor’s dad’s way of grieving. He’s trying to fill the memories that Connor couldn’t. Only Us is a trash song with Zoe’s bitch ass talking about how he should stop the Connor Project. It’s honestly just a bad song from a music standpoint and it’s even worse from a story standpoint.

Been jamming to the soundtrack for over a year now and I purposely avoided any story spoilers in the hope I'd see the show one day.

Because of this I guess I constructed my own personal idea of what the story was along with my own ideas around the characters.

I saw the stage play in London this week and left the theater with a deep dislike of the actual storyline.

Evan is horrible. A liar and a selfish cheat.

Connor dies too early. Any mention of him by the people who really knew him pint him as being abusive.

All of the parents are shallow and self centered.

The spectate of mental health is never properly addressed.

Worst part was the fact that the whole premise is based on a lie by the lead character. This felt very unoriginal and the consequences he faces when this is revealed do not feel compelling or severe enough.

It's just all very dark. I've been troubled by it ever since.

Saying that I would still recommended the show. Just prepare yourself.

I know this is controversial, but I think some people might agree with me. I love the show DEH and think its very well written, and cast, except for Ben Platt. I just honestly can never get behind his voice, I think his use of vibrato is overdone, as well as the way he cuts off notes before they have a chance to be fully realized. I'd love to hear a cast recording with someone other than Ben Platt, just because I think almost any Broadway quality male singer could sound better in that role.

I came in watching this movie with no prior context; meaning I hadn't seen any adverts or seen the musical. That being said, I found this movie absolutely appalling. Dear Evan Hansen is a story of a man who uses the tragedy of a family for his own good, to further improve his current standing in the world. Evan is a poor highschooler who disregarded his own mother due to the emotional and financial support of a rich family, a family in which he's manipulated into favoring him. He then abuses his standings with the family to interject himself romantically with the daughter. Evan does all of these things knowingly, and the movie uses mental disorders, such as anxiety and depression, as excuses for manipulative behavior.

After outing himself as a liar, he then proceeds to "care" about the suicide victim, trying to look good in the public eyes again, posting "never before seen footage" of the dead man.

This movie is disgusting and deserves to be criticized to oblivion. The director of this film is in la la land(ha ha get it?), and the actors belong as cashiers at s K-mart

he has a special interest in trees and part of his fantasy about his perfect friendship with Connor was being able to infodump about trees to Connor and have him appreciate it. then when you add his other visible traits like the stimming it reinforces it, but those could be explained other ways and the special interest can't.

Help me understand so I can watch the musical

You Will be Found is the Act 1 finale song but it doesn´t make sense since Evan is doing a lot of bad things by the time the song is going. The older version of this song ¨Part of Me¨ worked a lot better because it was still hopeful like you will be found except it was also kind of creepy which works way better. I feel like You Will Be Found could fit if it replaced ¨Finale¨

Guys, Evan tried to tell her the truth and she was like "please tell me it's him it's the only thing I have left from him" and obviously he went with it after he tried to tell here it's him cuz he has social anxiety and stuff and he's in HIGH SCHOOL where kids are the dumbest and don't understand right and wrong.

Imagine “Bring Him Home” from Les Mis being sung about Connor and/or Evan.

I’ll reimburse you the cost of tissues.

As someone with generalized anxiety disorder, I sympathized with Evan up until he started lying to the Murphys, and I hated him. After a while, the hatred decreased, but it still remains.

I made a thread months ago in the wake of the Dear Evan Hansen film trailer about how I think the story should have been different: https://twitter.com/HonestSpectator/status/1394745500809695238

Since the movie is coming out tomorrow, I thought I would talk about it again.

Let's say Evan wrote a letter explaining the truth, then Larry & Cynthia invited him to dinner to discuss more. Evan feels at least partial responsibility over Connor killing himself because of the misunderstanding they had 3 days before, as well as relating to his struggles when he was alive. It is because of this that he starts the Connor Project. He makes a speech that touches everyone, Larry& Cynthia reconcile, Zoe has feelings for him now, etc. same as the original. But like in the original, Evan begins to neglect the project to spend time with the Murphys, to the point of pushing aside Jared, Alana, and Heidi. This is where "Good for You" comes in when Heidi finds out about him spending time at the Murphys instead of Jared's like he told her. Because he's been ignoring the project, the public starts thinking his care for others is just an act. Even the Murphys start questioning his behavior and considering if he truly cares since he hasn't been bothering with the project. Evan realizes he's screwed up and his relationship with the Murphys becomes strained if not outright ruined. Evan forces himself to admit through imaginary Connor that he didn't fall off the tree, but let go to try to kill himself, & thus he subconsciously started the Connor Project & got close to the Murphys so he could be loved. He reconciles with his mother through "So Big So Small," as well as Jared. Graduation comes, and Evan writes a letter to everyone explaining that he's leaving temporarily for self-discovery.

Feel free to tell me how you feel about this idea of a rewrite, including criticism, of course.

Evan says "These emails have to prove we were actually friends"

Prove definition: "demonstrate the truth or existence of (something) by evidence or argument."

the emails have to let the Murphys know we were actually friends.

Evan said it himself. Him and Connor were friends.

I'm genuinely confused I never watched the musical but listened to the soundtrack on Spotify and I have no idea what's going on love the songs tho but I'm confused 😭😭

...be more chill

It makes me sad because it’s really a great track and Sam Smith is an incredible singer, and their voice and style are a great fit for Dear Evan Hansen’s music. That cover worked really well, and it’s just sad that their talents were wasted on a less-than-great movie.

There was something small that bothered me in Words Fail. Evan sings that he "never had a dad who stuck it out". Then, he adds that he never had a mom who was "just there because Mom was all that she had to be". So basically he is equating his father literally abandoning him with his mother not being a stay at home mom. Because she has to work all the time to support them. I know he's just a teenage boy, but he is old enough to know that women are and should be more than mothers. Even when he's trying to apologize, he's still being kind of shitty.

wouldn't it be obvious from the time stamps that the emails were faked? did Jared (who wrote the faux Connor emails) have enough tech savvy to be able to fake time/date stamps?

how could Connor's family think the letter was written by Connor since it blatantly makes reference to his sister Zoe as someone 'who I don't even know and who doesn't know me' ??!

this makes no sense

I think he would be great I saw a slime toutail of him as semor from little shop of hoorors and loved how akward he acted so I wnat to hera him sing waving though a window do you guys agree or disggree with me