Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

Ben Platt: Evan Hansen

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• Evan Hansen : [from trailer]  If you knew who I am, how broken I am.

  Heidi Hansen : [from trailer]  I already know you. And I love you.

• Evan Hansen : [from trailer]  Connor showed me I wasn't alone. Nobody is.

• Evan Hansen : Dear Evan Hansen: Today is going to be an amazing day and here's why. Because, today, all you have to do is be yourself. But also confident. That's important. And interesting. Easy to talk to. Approachable. But mostly be yourself. That's the big, that's number one. Be yourself. Be true to yourself.

• Evan Hansen : Dear Evan Hansen, today's going to be an amazing day and here's why...

• Zoe Murphy : What about your dad?

  Evan Hansen : My dad. Um, he lives in Colorado, so... He left when I was seven.

  Zoe Murphy : That sucks. Mine died when I was one, so... I sort of win.

• Evan Hansen : Would you want to sign my cast? Uh, you could, you could be the first.

  Jared Kalwani : Why would I do that?

  Evan Hansen : Well, I just... I thought, um, because we're friends and...

  Jared Kalwani : We're family friends, Evan. That's an entirely different thing. Please respect that.

• Zoe Murphy : The only time I saw you two together was when he was screaming in your face at school last week.

  Cynthia Murphy : He was screaming at you?

  Evan Hansen : Yeah, yeah, um...

  Cynthia Murphy : Well, that wasn't very nice.

  Zoe Murphy : Well, Connor wasn't very nice, so that actually makes sense.

  Cynthia Murphy : I think that everybody at this table can agree that Connor was, um... a complicated person.

  Zoe Murphy : No, he was a bad person.

  Larry Mora : Zoe, please.

  Zoe Murphy : Don't pretend like you don't agree with me.

  Cynthia Murphy : You refuse to remember any of the good things.

  Zoe Murphy : Because there were no good things.

• Zoe Murphy : Just be glad we get to have real ice cream. My mom was Buddhist last year, so we couldn't have any animal products.

  Evan Hansen : She was, um, Buddhist last year but not this year?

  Zoe Murphy : Yep. That's sort of what she does. She gets into a lot of different things. For a while, it was Pilates. The Secret. Buddhism. Et cetera.

  Evan Hansen : It's cool that she's interested in so much different stuff.

  Zoe Murphy : Yeah, she's not, though. That's just what happens when you're rich and you don't have a job. You get a little crazy.

• Heidi Hansen : They don't really know you.

  Evan Hansen : Well, they like me. They like me. I know that that's very hard for you to believe, that they don't think I'm... you know, that there's something wrong with me, that I need to be, like, fixed, like you do.

  Heidi Hansen : When have I ever said that?

  Evan Hansen : Oh, my god. Mom, I, I have to go to therapy, right? I have to take drugs. I have to...

  Heidi Hansen : There's, there's nothing wrong with that. There, there's nothing wrong with needing help, honey.

• Jared Kalwani : And now you want me to make a bunch of fake emails for you. Classic.

  Evan Hansen : You know how to do that?

  Jared Kalwani : It's simple coding.

  Evan Hansen : But you failed coding.

  Jared Kalwani : If you consider a d-minus failing.

• Alana Beck : You want to help the Murphys? And all the other people who might need it, like people like Connor. Or... people like us.

  Evan Hansen : People like us? Yes, right, because we have so much in common.

  Alana Beck : What?

  Evan Hansen : Well, you're, like, the president of a million different groups at school, and you're, like, part of every single activity. And you're, you know, and I'm... um, I am not.

  Alana Beck : What do you take? Okay, I'll go first. I'm on Lexapro, ten milligrams.

  Evan Hansen : Oh. Well, I'm, I'm on Zoloft. Uh, and Wellbutrin. And, um... Ativan as needed.

  Alana Beck : Depression? Anxiety?

  Evan Hansen : Yeah.

  Alana Beck : Yeah, me, too. Some days, it's just like, um... It's like, um...

  Evan Hansen : Impossible?

  Alana Beck : Yeah.

  Evan Hansen : Yeah. You know, you don't really act like a... depressed sort of person.

  Alana Beck : I'm just good at staying anonymous. Same as you. There are a lot of people who feel like us. People that you wouldn't think.

• Jared Kalwani : Maybe you should talk to her, tell her how you feel.

  Evan Hansen : I've tried talking to her.

  Jared Kalwani : Really?

  Evan Hansen : Yes. Yeah, I... I stayed afterwards, um, last year after the spring jazz band concert, but, um, I didn't go up to her because I was worried that my hands were sweaty. Which they weren't even, they weren't even that sweaty. I just... I was worried that they were sweaty, and sometimes worrying that they're sweaty makes them sweaty, so I just went to the bathroom and I put 'em under, like, the hand dryer thing, but then they were still sweaty. They were just, um... They were just also warm.

  Jared Kalwani : I was kidding. You obviously should not talk to her. You are a literal disaster.

• Heidi Hansen : His English teacher last year told me that he wrote one of the best papers she'd ever read on Sulu.

  Cynthia Murphy : Is that right?

  Evan Hansen : It's Sula.

  Heidi Hansen : What?

  Evan Hansen : You said Sulu. It's Sula.

  Larry Mora : Yeah, I believe Sulu's a character on Star Trek.

  Heidi Hansen : My mistake.

• Evan Hansen : And he noticed that you still fill out the quizzes that they put in those teen magazines.

  Zoe Murphy : I, I do that ironically.

• [Alana's phone vibrates after posting Evan's letter online] 

  Alana Beck : Hi.

  Evan Hansen : Alana, you have to take it down, okay? They've been through enough.

  Alana Beck : I took it down already, Evan, but it-it doesn't matter because it's everywhere.