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Dear Evan Hansen originally had a different plot

Popcorn with Peter Travers" that the show was originally supposed to be a "condemnation" of the desire by some people to insert themselves in tragedies.
" data-reactid="22">Justin Paul, revealed in an interview on ABC News that the show was originally supposed to be a "condemnation" of the desire by some people to insert themselves in tragedies.

"It was a cynical look at that," Paul said. "And [as] we started to write, it became clear to us that it wasn't an interesting musical. There wasn't any heart to that. So we really tried to look at it from a different view, which was: What experience does someone have that they're in such a place that when given any opportunity to fib a little bit [they] say that they had a connection to someone that they didn't have a connection to."

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