Get ready for some very exciting London theatre news! Broadway cult phenomenon Be More Chill will be returning to London on 30 June to 5 September 2021 for a 10-week run at the West End’s Shaftesbury Theatre before & Juliet reopens this September. Featuring a Tony Award®-nominated score bursting with addictive beats that will leave you riddled with earworms long after the curtain falls, this mind-bendingly fun hit musical is as audibly soothing as it is visually stunning. “He didn’t get hugged enough.Be More Chill West End musical tickets on sale now! With the game almost over, he imagined throwing the axe at the kid who shoved him in a locker in sixth grade. He went on to throw at Bill Cosby, people who walk too slowly in Times Square, “my anxiety around things like awards,” fractional-reserve banking (“I’m not a fan”), and the chairman of the F.C.C.
On his next turn, he pictured “the Latin teacher who nearly failed me for missing an assignment the weekend we opened ‘Macbeth’ and told me, ‘What are you going to do with all of this theatre stuff?’ While I was learning Latin.” Another four. “I think it’s poisoning America.” Thwap! Four points. Was he picturing anyone on the bull’s-eye? “Whoever invented ‘The Bachelor,’ ” he said. “She pointed out, ‘You’re very clever, and sometimes you say things to your friends and classmates that are really mean.’ She cared a lot about making sure I didn’t become a douchebag.” Roland’s high-school-theatre career threatened to do the same, as he discovered when his drama teacher sat him down one day when he was fifteen. In “Be More Chill,” the SQUIP turns Jeremy into a popular jerk. He starred in school plays-“They had a really bomb theatre program”-and this somehow earned him social capital. “Between you and me, I can imagine certain mean writers’ heads in those bull’s-eyes.”
“Everybody got that?” Roland sipped a Pepsi and said excitedly, “It sounds very dangerous!” He took a practice throw and landed the axe square in the four-point zone, suggesting hidden reserves of hand-eye coördination. “If we see you visibly intoxicated or throwing in an improper manner while sober, we have to tell you to stop throwing,” Ortiz said. He recommended gripping the axe with both hands and throwing from over your head. The outer ring was worth one point the bull’s-eye was worth five. Two players at a time were to stand side by side on a black line and hurl tennis-racquet-size axes at wooden five-ring targets. “Both have been done a thousand times,” Ortiz said. Roland suggested Axe Body Spray his opponents called themselves the Axe-Holes. He signed a waiver (Kick Axe is not liable if you wind up with a blade in your skull) and joined some strangers.Īn instructor with bleached hair, Ryan Ortiz, split the group into two teams of three and asked each to come up with a team name. He wore jeans and an orange flannel shirt over a punkish mini-golf T-shirt. “I’ve never been here, but all of my neighbors say it’s great,” he said.
He’s the kind of guy you might find at a novelty retro-amusement bar, and that is why he requested to meet, one recent Tuesday afternoon, at Kick Axe Throwing, an establishment in Gowanus. In real life, Roland has just turned thirty, is engaged to a live human woman (Stephanie Wessels, who works at a photography studio), and lives in Brooklyn, where nerddom and hipsterdom are indistinguishable. The musical, based on a young-adult novel, arrived on Broadway with a mob of online superfans, who now swarm the Lyceum stage door each night to take selfies with Roland.
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Now Roland is making his own bid as Broadway’s reigning nerd-hero, in the new musical “ Be More Chill.” He plays Jeremy, a high-school junior who is hopelessly devoid of social skills, until he takes a SQUIP-“super quantum unit intel processor”-a pill that implants a computer chip in his brain, instructing him on how to be cool. When it opened, in 2016, the actor Will Roland played Evan’s only friend. There’s the green-faced outcast of “Wicked,” the squeaky-clean missionaries of “The Book of Mormon,” the mathlete turned queen bee of “Mean Girls.” The Tony-winning musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” about an antisocial teen who becomes a viral sensation, made a geek heartthrob of its star, Ben Platt. Nerds are often oppressed in life, but on Broadway they’re the ruling class.
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