Tony Award winning musical Dear Evan Hansen is about to get a book adaptation that will focus on expanding stories and characters featured in the musical. Set to be released October 9th, the story follows Evan Hansen, a lonely high school student who is swept into an emotional lie after the death of one of his classmates.
Cover of Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel | Via Amazon
Author Val Emmich (The Reminders) teamed up with the creative team behind the musical, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul, to bring the musical’s story to even more people through the book.
The book adaptation takes the main storyline of the musical and fleshes it out with themes of grief, authenticity, and the want to belong in a world of instant connectivity and profound isolation in the age of social media.
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