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Be More Chill and Dear Evan Hansen: how teens made the musicals go viral by Chris Wiegand

Two American shows that explore adolescent anxiety have been propelled by young online communities in a digital blizzard of streams, fan art and animatics Schoolboys hunch over laptops in the opening scenes of two musicals that have won devoted teenage fanclubs. One writes a motivational letter to himself, "Dear Evan Hansen …", in the Tony award-winning smash of the same name, currently in its fourth year on Broadw…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM on February 11, 2020

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