No. 52. “Waving Through a Window”

DEAR EVAN HANSEN (2016). By Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (music and lyrics) and Steven Levenson (book).

December 2016. You’re at Dear Evan Hansen, written by three prodigious young authors and directed by Michael Grief, who seems to be a savant for musicalizing angsty young people. In lieu of the scaffolding his stagings of RENTand Next to Normal have led you to expect, the stage is dominated tall panels with screens. “Ahhh,” you realize, “this is the soc…