![]() ![]() We parents will never understand what it’s like to grow up with two selves, one that must be constantly tended online and another that might be very different. But one thing is clear, this complicates the traditional parent-teen disconnect. How do you navigate it as a kid? No one knows how it’ll all work out. How do you learn to raise the first generation for whom the virtual world is just as important as their physical lives? There’s no precedent. That struggle feels like a hallmark of this particular moment in history. “Anybody maybe happen to know how the hell to do this?” I lost it in the first act when the two stellar actors who play mothers of teens sing about feeling totally unqualified for the job of being a parent. They say things like, “I’m in shock, it’s so good.” And often, right behind them, is a parent who’s also feeling undone. This music reaches a generation that can seem jaded or desensitized having come of age with access to the entire world’s pain and tribulations in the palm of their hand.Īsk one of the many teenagers in the audience if the play seems authentic and they can barely get the words out. The songs were written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the pair who just won an Oscar for their work on La La Land. Sounds like a fun time, right? In fact, the play, which has become a huge hit on Broadway since it opened there in December, is cathartic and real and often so funny it’s hard to believe that the catalytic event is the suicide of a kid we barely meet. And it’s about the struggle to connect in an era when it seems as if we’re all awash in emotional hyperbole online and off. ![]() He added that pulling away from a quicksand will only. It’s also about parents reaching for their kids as they disappear into their phones and laptops. Bonn noted that it is difficult to get out of quicksand, but getting stuck in quicksand near the sand could kill a person due to high tide. But eventually, he finds a way to leave self-loathing behind. Dear Evan Hansen is a heart-scorching musical about a teen boy so bound up by anxiety and loneliness that he makes mistakes he can’t fix and gets stuck in the quicksand of social-media adulation. ![]()
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