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2. How Does The Music Fit Into The World Of This Play

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1. What is a main theme or idea this play brings up? What does it say about that theme? Use details from the play to provide evidence.

The theme of the play is that acceptance. This plays say that people will do anything to be accepted. Evan Hansen never been liked by anybody and his mother who loves him is never around. In this play, Evan Hansen seek acceptance from another family after the death of their kid. He lie to the family about the latter and when he get accepted by the family, school and internet, he lost connection about his mother who accepted for who he is even before the lie. After the truth came out, he found out that he didn’t need to look for acceptance from far when his mother was always there.

2. How does the music fit into the world of this play? When do characters tend to sing? What changes in the staging from when they are singing verses talking?

The songs in this play fits together with the play because the dongs are talking about the feelings of the characters. Characters tend to sing when they are talking about something that is not a conversation. They sing when they have a lot to …show more content…

I think the online setting was just as the director imagined and they bought imagination come true. What really stand out with the technology is the social media. When Evan’s letter was posted online, and the reaction of people posting comments was just great. I could feel like being part of the social media when the different sounds of people posting were displayed. The technology of the microphone when Evan was making a speech really created a physical space that made the audience feel the presence of a big crowd. It was very effective because it made easy for the audience to see things on their own other than being explained to them. For example when Connor’s social media had thousands of followers, we could actually see it and that made us understand it well by creating the same imagery for all the

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