Assalamualaikum!

It’s summer! That means I’ve made it through spring semester and Junior year, alhamdulillah. The reason I’m writing this is not to talk about that, hopefully I’d write about it some time because I feel like it’s an experience worth talking about. Anyways, I’d like to thank my roommate for giving me the ‘push’ for me to write on my blog considering how long I’ve left my blog deserted. I’ve thought of writing but just didn’t do it.

Soooo, why am I writing now? I went to watch a musical yesterday! And as always, I get this feeling on wanting to commemorate it one way or another, i.e. through this blog. The musical that I went to was called “Dear Evan Hansen”. I’ve thought of numerous ways on explaining what the show is about but I’ve failed to do it briefly. In my words, very vaguely,

It’s about a boy who has social anxiety and writes letters to himself as a way of coping. One day, his letter accidentally got read by someone and it led to a sequence of events that may or may not made his life better.

For a clearer but longer storyline, I recommend reading it here.

Some thoughts I had about the musical (there may or may not have spoilers so yeah):

• Evan Hansen in this musical, as I mentioned, is someone who has social anxiety. He tends to get nervous meeting people, speaks relatively quick (I had to really listen during the show and sitting literally at the last row, was quite challenging) and gets sweaty hands when nervous. Oh and he constantly apologizes even though he didn’t do anything wrong. Without exposing myself too much, I can kind of relate to him in a few things. Guess which, haha.
• There’s this song, “For Forever” and if you listen to this song as it is, without context, it sounds like a beautiful song about friendship. But sadly it’s not. (spoiler) It’s just about a made-up friendship.
• One thing I felt that wasn’t enough from the show was about Connor. In the story, Connor, someone who Evan barely knew, took his life away and even though the show revolves around him, they did not point out specifically why he did so. I wanted to know why because I want to understand, but I guess that’s the way it is. Some things are not meant to be known and it maybe is best that way?
• I love the small details and gestures performed by the actors that entertained us, the audience. This sounds bland but I enjoy seeing all of us laugh. I also love how supportive the audience was, clapping enthusiastically after every song. There were also sad moments during the show, in which I almost cried, and I saw some parents in the audience cry :,)

After the musical, despite the long line, I went to the merch table and bought the soundtrack of this musical and a lapel pin. I wish I took a picture of the merch table though. I was very tempted to buy other things at the merch table.

I’m now in the mood of playing the soundtrack on repeat 🙂 Here’s one of the songs from the musical,

That’s all for today. Thanks for stopping by!

Wassalam ❤