{"id":294438,"date":"2021-07-09T01:16:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T22:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-true-story-behind-dear-evan-hansen\/"},"modified":"2021-07-09T01:16:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T22:16:51","slug":"the-true-story-behind-dear-evan-hansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-true-story-behind-dear-evan-hansen\/","title":{"rendered":"#The True Story Behind Dear Evan Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2804a48c052\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2804a48c052\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-true-story-behind-dear-evan-hansen\/#Inspired_by_a_Traumatic_Event\" >Inspired by a Traumatic Event<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-true-story-behind-dear-evan-hansen\/#The_Social_Media_Generation\" >The Social Media Generation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-true-story-behind-dear-evan-hansen\/#The_Real_Impact_of_Dear_Evan_Hansen\" >The Real Impact of Dear Evan Hansen<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The True Story Behind Dear Evan Hansen<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>Real Stories is an ongoing column about the true stories behind <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> and TV shows. It\u2019s that simple. This installment focuses on the true story that informed the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen and its upcoming movie adaptation.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>The Tony Award-winning musical <em><strong>Dear Evan Hansen<\/strong><\/em> is about a teenage boy who suffers from <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> anxiety. Per the advice of his therapist, the titular Evan Hansen writes a daily affirmation letter to himself. Another boy, Connor Murphy, commits suicide and is found with Evan\u2019s letter in his pocket. Evan forms a bond with Connor\u2019s family, lying to them that he and Murphy were best friends. The lie unravels as Evan goes from a shy nobody to one of the most well-known kids in school.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Chbosky\u2019s movie adaptation of the show, which stars <strong>Ben Platt <\/strong>reprising the lead role he originated on the stage in the Broadway version, follows the same plot. But where did that premise originate? Is <em>Dear Evan Hansen<\/em> based on a true story? Not quite, but the musical was inspired by actual events.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s all you need to know about the real story behind <i>Dear Evan Hansen<\/i>:<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Inspired_by_a_Traumatic_Event\"><\/span>Inspired by a Traumatic Event<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> for <em>Dear Evan Hansen<\/em> was written by<strong> Steven Levenson<\/strong>, who also handled the screenplay for the movie version, with music and lyrics by <strong>Benj Pasek<\/strong> and <strong>Justin Paul<\/strong>. As initially reported in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/theater_dance\/benj-pasek-and-justin-paul-swing-for-the-fences-with-dear-evan-hansen\/2015\/07\/09\/50f59f48-219c-11e5-aeb9-a411a84c9d55_story.html\">a 2015 <em>Washington Post<\/em> profile on Pasek and Paul<\/a>, the plot of the show \u201cemanates from a traumatic event\u201d that occurred at Pasek\u2019s high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Levenson specified this event involved a student who died tragically of a drug overdose. \u201cIt was someone who had been sort of a loner, didn\u2019t have a lot of friends or status at school,\u201d he explained during a New York Comic Con panel (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.playbill.com\/article\/the-real-life-story-that-inspired-dear-evan-hansen-what-will-change-in-the-london-run-and-more-from-new-york-comic-con\">via Playbill<\/a>), \u201cbut suddenly in the wake [of] the death, Benj watched as everyone wanted to claim that they had been friends with him and claim that they had been a part of this person\u2019s life.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n<p>Pasek shared his memory of what happened with Levenson, who then wrote a treatment and script based on the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis show started as a seed, and we never thought it would grow into anything more than that,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/torontoguardian.com\/2019\/03\/story-behind-dear-evan-hansen\/\">Pasek told the <em>Toronto Guardian<\/em><\/a> the same year. \u201cThe show talks about the complicated nature of when you\u2019re not always so truthful. But it grew to something we did not expect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dear Evan Hansen - Official Trailer [HD]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g_c_Jd-hP-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Social_Media_Generation\"><\/span>The Social Media Generation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The impact of social media on high school students \u2014 and our society more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly \u2014 figures prominently in <em>Dear Evan Hansen. <\/em>In the musical, Evan gives a speech about his \u201cfriendship\u201d with Connor that goes viral. In the trailer for the <em>Dear Evan Hansen <\/em>movie, we can see Evan\u2019s classmates filming him on stage and then posting the video to social media. As another student tells him, \u201cPeople started sharing it; it\u2019s everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Even Hansen\u00a0<\/em>reflects on the ever-growing role social media plays in our lives. In particular, how people use social media to respond to tragedy and present an image of themselves to the world. In the <em>Washington Post <\/em>piece, Pasek states that the show is \u201cabout how the person you project to the world is not the real you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As they were writing the show, the creators of <em>Dear Evan Hansen<\/em> began to see that the response by students to the tragedy at Pasek\u2019s high school was not a singular occurrence. \u201cWe all [noticed] a really fascinating, bizarre phenomenon of public grieving [on social media],\u201d Levenson said during the New York Comic Con panel. \u201cWhenever a celebrity would die or something really tragic would happen, there was this outpouring online of people kind of making it about themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Real_Impact_of_Dear_Evan_Hansen\"><\/span>The Real Impact of Dear Evan Hansen<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>While the real story behind <em>Dear Evan Hansen\u00a0<\/em>may only be a \u201cseed\u201d from which the larger plot grew, the truth of the story has made a real impact on fans since the show\u2019s 2015 debut.\u00a0\u201cI get so, so, so many letters sent to the theater of young people telling me their story,\u201d Alex Boniello, who played Connor on Broadway, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/10\/29\/dear-evan-hansen-actors-hear-from-people-in-crisis\/\">told STAT<\/a> in 2019. \u201cI get people tweeting at me or Instagram messaging me. I sometimes get people at the stage door telling me about something they have gone through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cast members received so many messages that the production company trained them on how to respond. They also developed a system for handling replies in partnership with medical experts. Boniello admitted he experienced symptoms of an anxiety disorder himself. He hoped the show could reach young people in need of \u201csome sort of validation and help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the movie might do the same and inspire people to talk about their mental health with someone. \u201cI think that starting a conversation is ninety percent of the battle,\u201d Boniello told STAT. \u201cSo many people don\u2019t even know where to begin.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or text HOME to 741741.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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