Toronto: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Director Says Pandemic Took “Terrible Toll On All of Us”

Stephen Chbosky was joined on stage by select cast members, led by Ben Platt, who reprises the title role of Evan Hansen in the movie adaptation to hit theaters on Sept. 24.

As mask-wearing and socially-distanced fest-goers in Roy Thomson Hall struggled to get into the mood, Chobsky celebrated the return of audiences to movie theaters as TIFF launched its 2021 edition.

“You guys get to have the bragging rights forever to say you were here, not only for the opening night of, not only for the opening night of TIFF, but as far as I’m concerned, the opening night of cinema in theaters in North America. You’re here,” he told the Roy Thomson Hall audience.

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