Little things I noticed in BMC on broadway
WARNING: contains spoilers from the broadway previews of the musical Be More Chill
Feel free reed to add on any other cool details you noticed if you’ve seen the show :)
•Christine has rainbow boots in the first couple of scenes (like hardcore holographic)
•When Jeremy buys the Squip, the box opens and smoke comes out of it
•Sync up (new song) before Be More Chill Pt. 2: Jeremy becomes friends with all of the popular kids, it’s really cool cause it further shows how the squip advanced him to the top
•Even at the beginning of the show, Rich slaps his neck and cringes, showing how he’s being controlled by the squip. It’s subtle, and hard to catch if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
•Be more chill pt. 1: instead of “Jesus Christ” after “Everything about you makes me wanna die” it’s “god, this was a mistake”
•Also has brooke and squip making upgrade way more uncomfortable ,, I mean like they’re really close to Jeremy and touching him weirdly
•Brooke and Jeremy kiss a lot in the show, why aren’t we shipping them they seem like they really liked each other.
•A really cool new change is how it shows that all of the popular kids have their own struggles, like not wanting to be who everyone sees them (Jake) and how they want to be seen (Brooke and Jenna) It really explains why the squip would try to connect them. Before there was no character depth to the popular kids.
•Different lyrics and added in notes from jake and Christine’s upgrade lines, new add on shows that everyone doesn’t want to be how people see them. It more serious than the original lines “we’ll get all sporty and play cricket, or get a fourty and just kick it.. etc.”
•Mr reyes lost his british accent, its whatever
•Brooke checks out Jeremy a lot in “Do you wanna ride”
•Squip has holographic converse with his first outfit, I was mesmerized
•I swear to god will started crying during “loser, geek, whatever”
•Troy Iwata is amazing, since George was sick last night I had the privilege to see Troy perform. He even sounds like George while still playing Michael incredibly well. He’s also a skinny legend
•The character who sells the Squip is very creepy, I’m talking shaggy hair (sideburns definitely),has “dying inside” on his dirty and ripped jacket, kinda reminded me of Igor
•In “Guy that I’d kinda be into”, the squip throws confetti into the audience during the “guess there’s a part of me that wants to”
•Gerard (rich) spits a lot
•Squip (Jason Tam) looks like a mix between Andrew Rannells and my old math teacher
•Do you wanna ride: Chloe shows Brooke how to “seduce” Jeremy in the background
•Brooke slaps Jeremy with a straw in do you wanna ride
•“He’s not gross brooke!” Brooke then crushes her soda can in anger in the scene where Chloe talks to Christine about Jake
•Chloe shoves Brooke off of the seat while talking to Christine in the same scene. Poor Brooke she doesn’t deserve this
•Squip has blonde highlights after upgrade
• There’s moving lockers as props and you can see Michael walk behind one, Jeremy shouts “Hey, Michael!” And Michael suddenly disappears (with an electronic sound showing that the squip blocked Michael from Jeremy’s vision) and Jeremy says to himself “huh I could have sworn I saw him”
•The squip does some sick spins during Haloween. I’m talking like pirouettes and shit
•Brooke yeets her banana off stage in “The smartphone hour”
•When the squip malfunctions cause of the alcohol he passes out face first on jake’s parent’s bed, later so does Chloe so they just kinda lay on each other the rest of the scene
•In “Michael in the bathroom”, Michael (performed in my show by Troy Iwata) gives a real Ben Platt/Evan hyperventilating singing aspect. He really put everything he had into that performance.
•Right as Michael in the bathroom started playing this dude behind me whispered “this is the song!”
•During the play the squip’s outfit is black with eyeliner and really emo hair, like black gelled hair covering half his face
•During “The smartphone hour” the cast is dressed as girls and rich is in a rainbow unicorn onesie
•Dressed as high school girls, Michael and Mr Heere/Mr Reyes are lifted down from the top of the stage and it’s majestic
•Michael has a jet black bob cut ^^^
•In order to explain his actions when the squip entered him at the mall, Jeremy tells Christine that is was “performance art”, Christine tells Jeremy her dream of performance art which includes getting banned from the bowling alley and “that’s when I give birth to the bowling ball!”
•You can physically see the squip come up with his plan during the pitiful children
•During the play Michael gets knocked out and just kinda lays there in the front
•The play costumes are mostly bright like green and every single one covered head to toe in sequins.
•On the poster for “a midsummer’s night-mare” it says “Seauins donated my Natasha
•Micheal fucking smashes through a wall to make an entrance
•When Jake pours out the Mountain Dew red it took like 30 solid seconds for him to do so, it was 2 liters of it and it made it really awkward.
•When Jake starts pouring out the Mountain Dew, Jeremy and Michael scream in unison “NOOO *gasp* OOO *gasp* OOO”
•The squip being destroyed is real dramatic. Jason really pulled it off well, glitching, screaming, plus the stage and borders of the stage (the stage looked like a computer screen) flashed so much it could of given someone a seizure.
•Michael wears a red velvet jacket in “voices in my head”
•Christine changes keys to a minor key mid way through her part of the play (when she sings ‘Jeremy”, giving it an erie sound
•“Rich asks Jeremy is he (Michael) your boyfriend? Jeremy shakes his head.. I was really disappointed how could Will do that to us
•Rich has his lisp come back at the end
•The squip coming back in “voices in my head” is still there, and there’s videos and glitching of the squip on the borders of the stage, showing he’s still there
•I met Joe Iconis, he was sitting in the back of the theatre just chilling there, I didn’t know how he wasn’t swarmed by people. Of course I freaked out, said “Hi jOe” and ran away, but I did manage to get a photo with him. He was so nice.
