The Other Palace’s contemporary, 312-seat main auditorium has hosted new productions, including Heathers the Musical in 2018, which won Best New Musical and Best Actress in a Musical at the WhatsOnStage Awards. The intimate 120-seat studio space downstairs is where artists and directors can thrash out new work and rehearse forthcoming productions, while elsewhere in the building are a well-reviewed bar and restaurant. The premise of this book is essentially that a high-school aged boy, Jeremy, who longs after a particular girl and has low self-esteem about his persona, comes across a small pill-sized supercomputer called a "squip" that can act as a instructional guide on how to behave and what to do to accomplish one's goals. Using this, he is able to be considered "cool" and be among other popular teenagers who he once admired. On one hand it curtails #book!squip's character development, which is one of the most fascinating aspects of the original novel for me.

You might have been thinking - wait, wait, as YAF shouldn’t this book have ended with the boy realizing he’s better off as himself, without the aid of a microcomputer telling him exactly what to say? No. No, that’s not the moral: the moral is wait to buy yourself the exact piece of technology that will make imperfect-you more perfect so that you might have money, friends, and sex. As stated before, I love the musical. These characters have an actual personality, for one thing. There is much more development of the friendship between Jeremy and Michael, and it makes a WORLD of a difference. Michael is my favorite character in the musical because of his role and my emotional attachment to what he goes through. As for the book, I don't think it would make much of a difference if Michael was never a character in the first place. It is INCREDIBLE how much of an improvement there is when the narrative is told in more than one point of view (though, I understand why the book was in Jeremy's POV to work for the ending). Be More Chill is based on Ned Vizzini's 2004 novel of the same name. The Be More Chill musical was first seen in 2015 at the Two River Theater in New Jersey. But it was thanks to music streamers that Be More Chill gained popularity, with hits like "Michael in the Bathroom" taking over the social media platform, Tumblr.Why is Jeremy so mean to Michael? And why did Michael just accept all of Jeremy’s crap? At some point Jeremy should have realised that the Squip is just a piece of technology and Michael has been his best friend for many years and treating him like dirt is just going to make him leave. Of course, it’s all explained that Michael realised what was going on, and there were no hard feelings, but that just takes the onus off of Jeremy completely. Jeremy wasn’t a bystander, he chose to do what the Squip told him, but the book ends up treating him like he was a bystander. The Squip, after an interaction with one girl says to Jeremy, "GOOD JOB. THAT'S THE WAY TO DO IT. NEVER EVER BE MEAN TO GIRLS, UNLESS THEY'RE UGLY. [...] SHE'LL TELL HER FRIENDS HOW GOOD YOU WERE AND WE CAN BUILD FROM THERE." (152)

Suburban New Jersey WHEN I GET NERVOUS MY WHOLE FACE GOES RED DUDE, WEIGH THE OPTIONS CALMLY AND BE STILL A JUNIOR ON THE BUS IS KILLER WEAK BUT IF I WALK WHEN I ARRIVE I'M GONNA STRAIGHT-UP REEK AND MY BOXERS WILL BE BUNCHY AND MY PITS WILL LEAK OH, GAH, I WISH I HAD THE SKILL TO JUST BE FINE AND COOL AND CHILL This book is absurd. I love all the pop culture references, and I love how all over the place the narrative is. This book is so bad that it is good. I found this book to be really funny, especially all of the Keanu Reeves stuff. I really enjoyed this book. Then the art style morphs between the two depending on who is dominating the narrative as the story's being told, untilAt the end of the novel, as you might expect, the boy sheds the chip/pill from his system and feels regretful of his actions. However, this isn't brought on by the realization of his terrible treatment of girls or his old friends, but by a freak accident that injures his new friends. And, he regrets the decision of taking the chip because his crush ultimately rejects him.