How To Be More Chill Broadway Podcast Network

Join Ilana and Sam as they interview Be More Chill's Joe Iconis live in Times Square as part of Playbill's Curtain Up Festival via Broadway Podcast Network! This bonus episode kicks off Joe Iconis' 40th birthday week with a couple of games with him with a "This is your life, Joe Iconis" vibe and a special report from Joe about the 2021 West End production of Be More Chill.
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In the first episode of what we're calling How To Be More Chill "4.0", Sam and Ilana interview someone who could not be a more integral part of the Be More Chill story: Jason SweetTooth Williams. Jason played Mr. Heere, Mr. Reyes, and (of course) Scary Stockboy both Off-Broadway and on and is one of the kindest humans ever and an absolute joy to talk to. No wonder Joe Iconis was the best man at his wedding!
Get the inside scoop on his name (spoiler alert: the reason could not be more awesome!), what it was like performing The Goodbye Song after the last performance of #BeMoreChill on Broadway, and all sorts of other lovely things you might not know about him and the show. Jason SweetTooth Williams, let's do this!
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When Miracle Change got the call that she had an audition for the London production of Be More Chill, she was performing as Columbia in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in Edinburgh. In order to make it to her three auditions she had to take a 5 hour train and then fly back each night in order to make it back in time for the show. It was that kind of commitment that landed her the role of Christine Canigula, a part that Miracle found to be very close to her heart. Find out what Joe Iconis said to Miracle that was the key to understanding the role, what scared her the most about her big entrance, why she loved singing “ I Love Play Rehearsal “ night after night and why the Be More Chill fans are some of the most special people in the world in this episode of How To Be More Chill. Miracle Chance, let's do this!
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In the first ever live episode (video on Broadway Podcast Network's YouTube channel!) of How To Be More Chill, Sam and Ilana talk to Scott Folan. Scott is a child actor-turned-adult actor and singer/songwriter, but to us he will always be Jeremy Heere in the London production of Be More Chill. Scott's incredible gifts as a performer are matched by his honesty about the process of taking on the role of Jeremy. You will love hearing about how he used the incredible fan art of the show's previous productions to begin his research and how the fans supported him in unprecedented ways during the London run. Be More Chill was one of the many shows across the globe shut down early during the Spring 2020 global COVID pandemic and Scott admits there may be some cheese sitting in his dressing room among all his other belongings he has not yet picked up from The Other Palace. Scott Folan: let's do this!
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Gerard Canonico joins Sam and Ilana to chat about how the character of Rich evolved from Be More Chill's first workshop to Broadway, his joy and love of being part of Iconis and Family, and how being a child actor impacted his life in such amazing ways, and….how he balances his love of  being a musician with his love of  being an actor. Gerard Canonico, let’s do this!

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Oh, this is a GOOD one that we've been waiting a long time for. Besides being the director of so many of your favorite musicals fo the past decade, Stephen Brackett is the Godfather of the Be More Chill, being at its helm from extremely early on its development. Less than 48 hours after the London cast was announced, Stephen gives Sam and Ilana the inside scoop on who was cast as Jeremy, Christine, Michael, and the Squip. Enjoy every morsel of this delicious episode full of goodies that made Sam and Ilana's jaw drop for about an hour straight while recording it!

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