What It’s Like to Make It in Showbiz With Your Best Friend - The New York Times
Michael Paulson
They have proven especially deft at musicalizing emotional yearning: The 11 o’clock number in “Dear Evan Hansen” is a poignant effort by an apologetic single mother (Rachel Bay Jones) to comfort her disconsolate son (Ben Platt).
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