Go Inside The Rehearsal Room For London's BE MORE CHILL

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Can I give you the Christi Excuse me My name is Scott Fowland

And I am playing Jeremy here in B-Morchill Phenomenal The cast are so lovely

Like I've made such good friends And that's really important for like feeling comfortable in the room enough to make art

When you've got a group of people around you are so lovely But most importantly the creative team are like

beautiful and and so like I was just saying that they love to just be like no do your thing

like I know we've done it a thousand times before but they're still like oh just no find a

fresh take do your thing and if we have an idea we'll chuck it in I haven't heard once

we've been over a week and a half and I haven't yet heard oh but will did and that was my like

biggest fear going in because there's like two wills and I was like do I have to change my name but I haven't yet once heard like oh I know

someone else did this in the past. It's all like, oh my God, no, you do you, we'll find

it around you because you're the actors and you're the humans doing it. And I think that's

the beauty of this show as well, as the human beings who are a part of it. I was bullied. We all were

I mean, we're all creatives. We all were from like year seven to year 11. If you're watching America

that's what, like age 11 to 16, which is like five years of my life. Which made me want to become

an actor and want to become this like, I'm going to sing and dance, which is like I see myself

in Christine and I see myself in Jeremy. But it was, I needed help when I was younger

And I was glad I didn't get offered a squit because I fear I may have taken it. But I needed help

and I got it and I became who I am today, who I hope is a better person than I was

So yeah, it's really lovely to draw on things I've gone through and see Little Scotty

become Big Scotty and become Jeremy. But I also want to say

it's not a musical for kids because as you say I'm an adult now

which is weird to say but I still relate to the story

so beautifully and even people who are generation older than me or even generations above

will go oh my God yeah I felt that last year I'm going through that now

with my new work and my new job and it's such a beautifully relatable story

that anyone can get behind and that's why it's so good that's why you should come and see it

Energetic beautiful uh uh sci extravaganza and Beautiful Sci Extravaganza And the final one

Relatable. Let's go with Relatable because I really like it. Hello, I'm Millie O'Connell, and I will be playing Chloe Valentine

Chloe, she is top of the food chain in school. She's most popular girl in school, but she's always got a haver bestie, brick, who's played by Eloise Davis

He was actually one of my real-life besties, so that's amazing to work beside her

And she is, looks like she's securing herself, but actually she's got some insecurities

And during the show, you kind of see this tough, mean girl, kind of, you see these layers to her

And I think that's really lovely that for the audience to be able to see a character like that, actually go through real life things

Real life insecurities, real life heartbreak, jealousy, current emotions that, you know, we all feel

and I think she is, yeah, I think she is real, she's really finds herself by the end, I think

Yeah. Absolutely. I think the, when you're playing characters that you can actually, you say if I read the script and I go, that line sounds familiar

Because it's either something I've said or I've heard when my mates say. And to have something relatable like that and so close to home, I love it because you really get to adapt and put it onto yourself and make it your own because it is your own

because you read the script and you're literally like, oh my God, I say stuff like this

It's brilliant. It's such a current script. So yeah, I love that. Yeah, I think I feel lucky more than anything that I have been in a show that the message is so powerful

and I get to be involved in another show that there are so many messages subliminal or relatable

in this show that at least if one person can walk out of this audience and go, that scene made me feel more

I related to that as a person and I feel more comfortable myself or this character went through it

It's real life. We'd go through that. If at least one person will walk out and I've made them happy, then that's my job done

So, yeah, carrying that with me, I think is really important because I got to do that on six as well

And I get to do it again. Okay. Electric, sci-fi, comical, powerful and relatable

Yeah. Those are my five words now currently in rehearsal because. I loving it and it is so relatable and it just real and funny and weird and it weird that the main one it weird and I a weirdo Hello I am Miracle Chance and I play Christine Pinicula Okay so Christine is like she a theatre nerd Like we all like relate to her I think in our industry

But she's a bit of an outsider, but she really owns the fact that she's an outsider

She's not like, I'm an outsider and I'm like, you know, boo hoo. She's like, I'm an outsider

Yeah, and I like it. And I think it's awesome because she's a kind of character where you're not expecting that

that they don't usually have loads of strength, but she also represents

the kind of people who are thinking, they're in their head, they're constantly searching

for more, they want to know everything, they want to know about World War II

they want to know about ancient Egypt, and she kind of represents those people who are in their head and they're constantly striving

and maybe aren't as present in the world, do I mean? Because they're like, hmm, in their fairy kingdom, I guess

100%. Like, that's the thing, like I think everyone in the cast can say that they at least

relate to Christine because like we're saying she's that she's the kid at like high school where it's like

or secondary school as we say here where she's like waiting for the catalyst to go up like oh my goodness

like the first person at the door at the like acting class you know like so keen like to play tree three

three so it's awesome to to be able to step into a role that I I really can relate to it doesn't happen

much but you can always find the essence of a character but when you're like yes

This feels comfortable. It's nice. Like, it's like, comedy, sci-fi

like teen extravaganza palava with a whole lot of, like, madness. I'm Stephen Brackett, and I'm the director of Bemore Chill

It's really exciting. You know, I love musical theater that is forward thinking and that is working on kind of keeping the form modern

And certainly the content is really modern, but actually the structure of the musical is pretty classical

But it's been a real joy to have the opportunity to kind of keep looking into this material

And we try to adapt it always and try to make it better with each stop that we take

Yeah, you know, it was an interesting moment for us to say, do we try to

shift the location of this to the place where we're playing. And it became really important to us that it actually it feels so deeply American And my hope is that there is somewhat of the same pleasure that I as an American have watching the crown right

You know, we love, we love British things, we love content about the UK. And so hopefully

there's there's somewhat of a synchronicity in terms of the return of that. And so we've been

adapting some references that feel like they don't really register here. Like nobody's

in our cast knows what a hot pocket is. So we're doing small changes like that

but keeping it fundamentally pretty American. Yeah, you know, I'm hopeful. I think that there's a real power

in a younger theater audience. I think that the show has appeal for a wider audience

it has a real great appeal for an older audience. But I'm hopeful that we see that younger audience represented

in our crowd. You know, only time will tell. I think we're not really gonna see that or feel that

until we get into the theater and start previews, but I'm hoping we get that energy

Heartfelt, strange, exuberant, bright, and soulful

Hi, I'm Stuart Clark, I'm playing the Squip in Be More Chill

Basically, if you fed heathers and mean girls to the Little Shop of Horrors plan

and gave it like a side-by twist, like the Matrix, that's B. More Chill

It's a story. about high school angs, everything that comes along with that, but also on that there's this

crazy sci-fi wish fulfillment element going on as well which makes it into this yeah trippy

story. I think there's something about the globalised theatrical scene at the moment. Spotify is a

global thing. Cast albums global thing. Everyone listens to them, everyone enjoys them and

that was where B.Muchel got its start with the cast album of the Two Rivers production and

I think just as many musical theatre fans in the UK have heard that as America and our heart

I'm hungry for this production. I think, yeah, it's set in American high school, but the story is universal, the relatability of the characters is universal

Maybe my character's not quite so universal, being a super computer from Japan, but, you know, most of the characters, I think everyone could find someone that they identify with during their school years

So it's a pretty universal story. Vibrant, spooky, techno, ephabovee, efflvan, Epivesant, and relatable