Mental Illness: [Enter Stage Right]
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Musicals about mental illness are a lucrative artistic trend in theatre. And these productions are breaking new ground with their honest, entertaining portrayals of disorders that 1 in 5 Americans live with. Depicting these disorders help audiences better understand common challenges to mental health, but…
Joe Iconis & Lauren Marcus: How To Be Cool For School
Forbes Interviews Joe About BE MORE CHILL
"Be More Chill" is a musical success story that almost didn't happen. The Off-Broadway show debuting later this month enjoyed modest success when it first premiered at Two River Theater in New Jersey in 2015. The production ran for six weeks and a cast album got made. Two years later, without warning or…
The New York Times: How Be More Chill Found Its Fans
Before “Be More Chill” even starts previews at the Pershing Square Signature Center on July 26, it will already be one of the most popular new musicals in America, with a passionate fan base that dwarfs the number of people who have ever seen the show. All this after a barely noticed monthlong run in New...
Be More Chill to Play Off-Broadway This Summer
It’s called a Squip. A tiny supercomputer inside a pill. Swallow one and a personalized voice will tell you how to dress, how to speak, how to… become cool. Jeremy Heere is your average, nothing-special teenager at Middleborough High in nothing-special New Jersey... until the day he finds out about “The...
Love In Hate Nation Opens Penn State's New Musicals Initiative
Twenty-year-old Amina Faye is onstage, playing Susannah, a teen living in an early 1960s all-girl juvenile hall. Susannah expresses her fears of “two girls going steady,” singing, “I’ll just keep it to myself. Oh, well.” Peering from behind the glow of his laptop, composer Joe Iconis drums his hands lightly...
Billboard on Broadway Podcast: Joe Iconis Talks 'Smash' & Surprise Hit 'Be More Chill'
VIDEO: Joe Iconis Performs "Halloween" From Be More Chill
Joe Iconis, one-half of the creative duo behind Be More Chill, stopped by the Playbill studios to perform “Halloween” from the hit musical. Watch Iconis in the video above. Based on the novel by Ned Vizzini, Be More Chill is a musical by Iconis and Joe Tracz about high school, popularity, and a tiny supercomputer...
