REVIEW: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ riles up all sorts of emotions
‘Dear Evan Hansen’ plays a limited engagement at Bass Performance Hall. (Courtesy photo) Depending on your perspective or cynicism, the title character of Dear Evan Hansen (DEH) is either a jerk or a sympathetic soul.
Maybe he’s both? That decision is definitely up to the audience but getting there can bring on a whole bunch of feels along the way.
The Tony-winning musical opened Tuesday night at Bass Hall as part of its Broadway at the Bass series. DEH is certainly a show of its times centering on the high school character and his circle of not-quite-friends.
Conversations were often held through text or chat which are cleverly staged. But the human interactions were where the real drama was between teens, adults and then teens and their parents.
