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    Broadway Is About To 'Be More Chill'

    The high-school sci-fi musical got middling reviews when it premiered in New Jersey. Then teenagers on social media got a hold of it.
    by Jeff Lunden Sep 11, 2018 3 minutes
    In the current production of <em>Be More Chill</em>, an unpopular high school student named Jeremy (played by Will Roland, center) swallows a pill (which is actually a microcomputer) in order to be more, well, chill. The show moves to Broadway in early 2019.

    When the sci-fi teen musical Be More Chill opened in New Jersey a few years ago, it got a ho-hum critical response. But then something surprising happened.

    The cast recording and some YouTube videos went viral. Then came fan art, fan fiction and fan covers of the songs on social media.

    When the show opened off-Broadway last month, it sold out entirely. In February, Be More Chill will move to Broadway.

    Its premise is

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