It requires us to think about hard questions, and have uncomfortable conversations without easy answers. We’re asked to feel for a family that struggles with the heart-wrenching pain that follows a teenager’s suicide. We’re asked to care about a depressed teenage boy who inserts himself into a tragedy he has no place in. With its exploration of grief, mental health, parenting, social media, and the troubled lives of teenagers in America, “Dear Evan Hansen” is a tough ask of audiences. Soon the lie spins out of control until it, inevitably, comes crashing down around him. Evan doesn’t correct their error, enjoying being the center of attention. After a classmate, Connor Murphy, dies by suicide, Connor’s parents mistakenly believe that Evan and Connor were best friends. The musical, which won six Tony Awards in 2017, including for best musical, centers on a depressed high school misfit named Evan Hansen. It’s doesn’t really let you sit into one so far that you can’t shake it after.” You’re able to have this experience of feeling all the emotions in all the stages of life and grief and happiness. “But I also tell people ‘It’s not like you’re going to go have a really dark day at the theater, because the comic relief in this show is just so meticulously wonderful that it never lets you get there.’ You’ll be given something that’s really heavy and really dark, but then you’ll be pulled out of it and given permission to laugh.
Everybody knows there’s something going on that’s really heavy,” Thomas said.
“Everybody knows there’s some big devastating event. So advises actor Lili Thomas, who plays grieving mother Cynthia Murphy in the national tour of “Dear Evan Hansen,” which opens Tuesday for a six-day run at the First Interstate Center for the Arts.
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