Tuesday, 18th May 2021 at 5:38 pm 2021 is shaping up to be a huge year for movie musicals – with Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story remake and the film adaptation of Lin Manuel Miranda’s Broadway debut In the Heights already firmly marked in our calendars. Advertisement And another upcoming film to get excited about is Dear Evan Hansen, which is based on the Tony Award-winning stage show of the same name and includes songs from the people behind two of the biggest movie musicals of recent years: La La Land and The Greatest Showman. The stage musical has already been a huge hit on Broadway and the West End, and quite the cast has been assembled to bring it to the silver screen – with original stage star Ben Platt featuring alongside Hollywood heavyweights such as Julianne Moore and Amy Adams.