The song was written for the musical's Off-Broadway production at Second Stage Theater in 2016, replacing 'Part of Me', which originally closed Act 1 in the world premiere production at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage in 2015. The song returns in Act 2 as a much darker-toned reprise underscoring Alana putting Evan's note (believed to have been Connor's suicide note) online, which gets immediate backlash on social media. As the song builds up into an uplifting climax, it goes viral, the entire public believing and consuming Evan's lies in the process. After the first chorus, it's revealed that an audience attendee videotaped the speech and put it up online. While knowing that he has been lying all this time, his speech presents a message of hope to those in attendance. He takes a deep breath, stands up, starts over and gives a new speech, this time through song. After fumbling through his note cards mid-speech, he begins to have a panic attack and sits on the ground as his anxiety takes over. Evan, at first, gives a speech on the stage of his high school's auditorium. The song begins during the Kickoff Assembly for The Connor Project, a student organization that the musical's protagonist, Evan Hansen had formed, with help from Jared Kleinman and Alana Beck, in order to keep the memory of a fellow student, Connor Murphy (whose suicide sets off the events in the musical) alive. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote both the music and lyrics to the song.

' You Will Be Found' is the Act 1 finale of the 2015 musical Dear Evan Hansen, which premiered on Broadway in 2016. Song by Ben Platt, Kristolyn Lloyd, Will Roland, Laura Dreyfuss & Original Broadway Cast of Dear Evan Hansenįrom the album Dear Evan Hansen: Original Broadway Cast Recording Song from Dear Evan Hansen 'You Will Be Found'

You will be found