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The American musical loves high school.
And vice versa: They go together like rama-lama-lama-ka-dinga-da-dinga-dong.
Or maybe because in high school the stakes are just naturally high all the frickin time.
Theres a reasonRomeo and Julietis about teenagers, and theres a reasonWest Side Storytook it from there.
I just wanna survive.
But despite the support of a loyal friend expressed in the catchy fistpumper Two-Player Game Jeremys still suffering.
Thats short for Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor.
(Its from Japan, were informed repeatedly, in mystical tones pregnant with hilariously vague implication.)
Basically, its a pill that helps you be cool.
My default mode, he explains to Jeremy, his voice dripping with SoCal nonchalance.
But he can take any form his helpless human host finds most attractive: Batman.
A sexy anime cat girl with a tail.
One ofBe More Chills shrewdest bits of comedy comes when the SQUIP encounters Christine for the first time.
Because I totally find that!
This one is interesting, the bot muses to Jeremy with an edge of distrust in its silky voice.
The way she talks.
The way she carries herself.
She doesnt seem to care what anyone thinks … Its highly unusual.
In the grand tradition of technophobia sci-fi, humanity is the bug.
Its our eccentricities and vulnerabilities that will save us, and they do not compute.
Its set in a post-apocalyptic future.
With zombies, not fairies.
(The spirit of Corky St. Clair is alive and well and teaching high school in New Jersey.
I wish there was something real I could do to make things better but I dont know how.
So I guess Ill just do theater.
How do the kids put it?
I feel so seen.
Be More Chillis at the Lyceum Theatre.
