In the musical Dear Evan Hansen, why did Evan lie to the Murphy family?

He was under pressure when he saw how distraught Cynthia was so he lied and then the lie got out of control to the point where he didn’t know how to reveal the truth

Explanation:

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.