Be More Chill and Dear Evan Hansen: how teens made the musicals go viral
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…