Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterDanny Pino has signed on to join the ensemble of the studio’s adaptation of the Broadway hit, Dear Evan Hansen joining Ben Platt, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams and Amandla Stenberg.The story follows Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety.
He unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.
Pino will play the step-father to the classmate that commits suicide.Steven Levenson, who wrote the book for the stage musical, wrote the script, and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote the music and penned the original lyrics for the musical and film.
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