Review: “Be More Chill” is a Teenage Dream

Christian Lewis
4 min readAug 30, 2018

It is rare that a show that premieres in a New Jersey theater gains a massive online following; it is even rarer for this to lead to a sold-out off Broadway run. But for “Be More Chill” this is exactly how it happened, all thanks to a devoted teenage fanbase that fell in love with a bootleg video and a casting recording. If nothing else, this musical proves the power of the people.

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Christian Lewis

Theater Critic. Vassar College alum, current PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center.