serakit ([personal profile] writerkit) wrote2022-11-15 10:24 pm

Dear Evan Hansen

I dislike the entire concept of Dear Evan Hansen and refuse to watch it or listen to most of it, but the song "Anybody Have a Map?" is brilliant and I love it.

I want the version of this musical where Connor survives his suicide attempt but people still assume the letter was written by him and that there's a secret close friendship between Connor and Evan, and thus Evan finds himself thrust into Connor's orbit so he has friends supporting him in this troubled time. They agree to collude in pretending there is one because Evan likes the attention/focus this gets him and Connor wants them to let him out of the psych hospital and thinks this will happen faster if he has evidence of a supportive friendship. Somewhere along the way the pretend friendship turns to real friendship.

Like, seriously, that musical I would probably enjoy.