Dear Evan Hansen Bombs in Australia — Page 2

Georgeanddot2 said: "Anyone with critical thinking skills hates this show."

Incorrect. There are fans of this show who are quite intelligent.

I think “You Will Be Found” may outlive the show itself: there’s always a market for uplifting gospel-pop anthems with an only quasi religious tone. It’s a song you can play on a competition when the winner cries, or sing at graduation, or nondenominational worship, or behind a “based on the inspiring true story” movie trailer.

darquegk said: "I think “You Will Be Found” may outlive the show itself: there’s always a marketfor uplifting gospel-pop anthems with an only quasi religious tone. It’s a song you can play on a competition when the winner cries, or sing at graduation, or nondenominational worship, or behind a “based on the inspiring true story” movie trailer."

It already has. I've heard the song playing on the radio while grocery shopping on multiple occasions.

Normal people were finally able to see this show and it became apparent what a trite and evil piece of trash this show is.

Compared to what? Pal Joey? Chicago? Musical Theater anti-heroes are nothing new. Neither are shows about corruption and exploitation. My problem is that the authors seem to love Evan too much. They keep begging us to love him too. Gypsy doesn't ask us to love Rose. You do or you don't.

Updated On: 1/25/25 at 11:55 AM

Sutton Ross said: "Normal people were finally able to see this show and it became apparent what a trite and evil piece of trash this show is.

Ah yes, because the only normal people to see it in a decade live in.....Australia. It's so dumb I just can't.

I loved this show on Broadway, the original cast was brilliant, and Ben deserved that Tony."

I was talking about the movie. Work on your reading comprehension skills, harlot.

People would have actually had to see the movie for it to damage the show's reputation. It spurred some memes and then vanished from collective memory.

Georgeanddot2 said: "Anyone with critical thinking skills hates this show. Broadway audiences usually lack critical thinking skills and that's why it was initially such a big hit "event." The film was rightfully met with shock and horror. Normal people were finally able to see this show and it became apparent what a trite and evil piece of trash this show is."

Oh look. Another batch of condescending comments from you. You are not the spokesperson for everyone “with critical thinking skills”. You speak for yourself only. No one else.

JSquared2 said: "FLarnhill said: "The movie permanently damaged the show's reputation and I won't have anyone say otherwise."



Oh please -- don't be ridiculous. A Chorus Line, Phantom, Les Miz, Annie, Cats, The Wiz, etc etc ALL "survived" despite having terrible movie adaptations -- and so will DEH.

The "revisionist history" BS in this thread is exhausting."

I think this one is in a different category. For one thing, the show itself suffered a drop in repuation that rather closely coincided with the release of the movie, so that even if the low estimation of one didn't direct effect the reputation of the other, they both sort of happened at the same time. Plus, any number of kids who might be interested in this show are likely to etiher watch the movie or one of the myriad of video reviews of it up on YouTube and judge the quality of the show on the basis of the movie. Maybe if there were a pro shot commerically available, the two would be looked at as distinctly seperate things. But in many ways, I think they are merged in a lot of people's minds.

Updated On: 1/23/25 at 03:01 PM

People have an intense reaction to the show not cause challenging subject matter provokes conversation,

but more like sometimes the Oscar nominated movie is pretentious and thinks it’s making a deeper point than it is and is clumsy and contrived in execution

to start... I saw DEH with Andrew Barth Feldman twice and I thought he and the rest of the cast were incredibly talented.

But the script / story has some huge flaws - the love story between Evan and Zoe seems completely unrealistic and forced. To me, it's obvious that Zoe should have seen him as the brother she never had, but in Evans mind she was falling in love with him... THAT would have been more realistic and led Evan to a bigger heartbreak and realization of reality. But instead Evan suddenly becomes cool and is dating and sleeping with a cool girl? There are so many issues with that!

As to why it's not performing well in 2025? It's such a different world - who knows. But I do think the casting is extremely important for this show.

rattleNwoolypenguin said: "
The difference here is everyone walked away from those movies and said “oh my god the broadway show is SO MUCH BETTER than whatever that was”

people watched the movie of DEH and then re assessed the broadway show as a whole."

The actual reality is that the majority of the people who saw all of those movies had never, and would never, see those shows. Films are mass market, they can only ever help a show because everyone else watching who didn't like it either is just familiar with the show or seen it already. They didn't need these movies to tell them yes or no.