‘Dear Evan Hansen’: Beautiful ballads crash into an ugly narrative

“Dear Evan Hansen” – “On the outside, always looking in.  Will I ever be more than I’ve always been?  ‘Cause I’m tap, tap, tapping on the glass. I’m waving through a window.  I try to speak, but nobody can hear.”  – Evan Hansen (Ben Platt) Evan lives in dire straits.  He’s a senior at Westview High School, and like many other students, he carries anxiety about his current place in (and state of) the world.  Comedienne Carol Burnett said, “Adolescence is one big pimple,” and she’s right.  Evan frequently feels…