<P> 2015 Red Bank </P> <P> 2017 Toms River </P> <P> Be More Chill is a musical with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis and a book by Joe Tracz, based on the novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini . The musical ran during 2015 at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey . </P> <P> The musical begins with an ordinary day in the life of Jeremy Heere, a high school junior in suburban New Jersey . He heads off to school, tries to avoid interacting with his peers, and meets up with his best friend Michael Mell at lunch . While pining after his crush Christine Canigula, Jeremy decides to sign up for the school play in an attempt to get closer to her . He laments his status as a social outcast, and begs for someone to teach him how to be cool ("More Than Survive"). At rehearsal that afternoon, Jeremy strikes up a conversation with Christine, who tells him about her love of the stage ("I Love Play Rehearsal"). They're the only ones to show up until the popular kids crash the rehearsal, where the teacher Mr. Reyes reveals that their production of A Midsummer Night's Dream will be set in a zombie apocalypse due to budget cuts . Christine is invited by popular boy Jake Dillinger to hang out after school, leaving Jeremy disheartened . After rehearsal, while attempting to wash graffiti off of his backpack, Jeremy runs into school bully Rich Goranski . Instead of harassing him, Rich instead tells Jeremy about how he learned to be more self - confident and improve his social standing--after a pathetic freshman year, Rich took a pill called a "super quantum unit intel processor," or "SQUIP ." The SQUIP is a supercomputer that implants itself in the host's brain and tells them how to act cool, and Rich tells Jeremy that he should get one ("The SQUIP Song"). </P>

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