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Be More Chill, Shaftesbury Theatre London
Coming-of-age journey in high school musical hits all the right notes
GEEK APPEAL: Scott Folan (Jeremy Heere) with Renee Lamb (Jenna Rolan)
[Matthew Crockett]
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ORIGINALLY a cult off-Broadway hit, Be More Chill is very much a music-theatre fan’s musical.
It’s an irreverent and darkly humorous look at teenage angst in a US high school, in particular the travails of Jeremy Heere, a geeky loner who can’t find a way to fit in with his fellow pupils.
Lured into seeking a radical solution, he spends his $400 Bar Mitvzah money on buying an under-the-counter pill that somehow links him into a super-computer that controls his behaviour and makes him “more chill.”
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