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To open more Chill is set, at The Other Palace, a theatre owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber

A new musical, the a word-of-mouth Hit in the US, is opening in London to run after a successful Broadway.

More Chill, which was praised for attracting a new teenage audience in the theatre, opens at The Other Palace in February, the BBC can reveal.

The pop-rock, sci-fi musical tells the story of a timid teenager who takes a pill to become more popular.

The soundtrack, a big part of The Show is a sleeper Hit racking up 300 million streams.

"run for your closeout off-Broadway, The Show has brought has a Hit with The Best kind of social media word-of-mouth for progress on The Broadway "

"It is, as observers have noted, younger audiences to the theatre. It caused great excitement and produced extreme fandom. "

More Chill originally premiered in 2015 at the Two River Theater in Red Bank , New Jersey . It had a limited run and the small was released from the cast soundtrack to a standstill, to streaming services.

In the year 2017 The Number of online listeners is to grow the shooting began, and The Show began to attract a cult following, particularly among Young People - Most of whom had not seen The Show , but still, Tumblr pages, YouTube videos, blogs, and art created the fiction, in tribute to you.

As a result, The Show was back to its creators for The Following year, initially as an off-Broadway production before it transferred to the Lyceum Theatre for a run on Broadway.

"I'm a little older and so I am used to word-of-tells mouth will tell my friends about a breathtaking show or a movie," More Chill-producer Jerry Goehring, Bbc News . "And in the old days, we had to play the radio a song and it would be popular. Mouth-to-mouth in different ways would happen.

"today, Well, clearly it happens online. As I wrote for the first time on this show by Joe Iconis [The Music ], it was something like 10 million streams of a CD, which had just been released. To run now, Fast Forward to the off-Broadway, and all of a sudden 100 million streams were there, and now we are well over 300 million streams. "

description of the plot, he says: "It starts off as a standard boy-has-a-crush-on-a-girl-on-girl-story. And he really wants to date this girl, but he is the kind of nerd That doesn't fit in, and it's quite a peculiar young lady, she really fits into her world.

"And Then we go in a little bit of sci-fi, where now the guy says, 'hey, I have this pill and if you take it, it is basically a super-computer, the to say as the implant itself in your brain and you, How To act The Right way and you will find The Right things so That they fit.

"It's kind of like your alter ego in your head, and it will tell you How To get the girl How To clothes properly, how you can

from the premise, it is not hard to see why the card has found a young audience. The traditional theatre critics, however, were not so convinced.

"For much of the two-and-a-half hours, these critics dream of the future, Broadway shows, where the producers have gone with all these well-known ingredients, the safe, white face with her nerd/outsider/not-so outsider-really problems, and a safe and predictable story and character tropes,"

"More Chill, not deal with the issues directly in front of his face. It wants to Say Something deep about the pressure of being a young man in the year 2019, but settles for a cliché-filled retrograde history, directly from the 80s. "

Goehring replied, "Perhaps some of the older, staunch industry critics, felt like 'you can't tell me what's good and not good, just because you like it".

"We have a piece of theatre was put on the stage, and ultimately by the People who responded, and who would have thought That a show which is so lacking in the mainstream commercial musicals, but a small musical, the heart, it is actually managed on The Broadway stage?"

He adds That the themes of the musical resonance with a young audience in a way That may be missed by the reviewers in a conventional theatre.

"of Young People , for some People , the same filters That older People do not have says," Geohring. "You can have a little look under the hood and look at all of the issues That has this card, wear it on the sleeve. We are not talking about suicide or bullying - it is all there, but we don't want to preach it. It is not written That way, you can see just under The Surface , these things.

"And I think That younger People are, the more flair for writing, not on the sleeve, they got it immediately. Those who come and take you at Face Value and not look a little below The Surface on these issues, I think it is easy to Take That , if That is your inclination. "

composer and lyricist Joe Iconis has previously said, That musical theatre is the perfect language for Young People to explore issues such as these.

"Teenage characters don't go through the same things, which are adult, you simply do not have the vocabulary to Express themselves, or you have not built it, the walls do adults,"

"There is this idea to do in the musical theatre, That you sing when your emotions are too big to be anything other than sing. For me, this is the teenage experience. "

More Chill opens at The Other Palace in February 2020.

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Source of news: bbc.com