Sounds Like Teen Spirit
The creators of Broadway's newest hit musical thought their show was dead in 2015. Rabid young champions of the cast album proved them wrong.
It was fall 2016, and Joe Iconis was sure his musical, Be More Chill, was dead. The composer had wrapped a successful but brief six-week run at New Jersey's Two River Theater in June 2015 and proceeded to spend a year and a half unsuccessfully pitching it to producers and theaters in New York City.
"Nobody wanted it," Iconis tells Newsweek of his adaptation of Ned Vizzini's 2004 YA novel of the same name. "Nobody cared." Dejected, he and his collaborator, book writer Joe Tracz, moved on to other projects.
Then, in May 2017, the duo started getting notifications on social media: a Facebook tag from someone who shared their favorite song; an
