![]() Backstage, Jeremy offers Christine a Squip, but her refusal makes him re-think the Squip’s plan. Unable to reach his son, Dad enlists Michael’s help (" The Pants Song"). The night of the play, Jeremy fights with his Dad, a sad sack who has given up on wearing pants since his wife left. He convinces Jeremy that his peers would be happier with Squips of their own (" The Pitiful Children"). Suspicious, Jeremy confronts his Squip, who assures him that Rich’s behavior wasn’t due to his Squip but in spite of it. The next day, school gossip Jenna Rolan spreads the news that, at the end of the party, Rich set a fire and burned down Jake's house (" The Smartphone Hour (Rich Set a Fire)"). Alone, Michael mourns the loss of his best friend (" Michael in the Bathroom"). Convinced he’s just jealous, Jeremy rejects the warning and calls Michael a loser. Caught in the act by Brooke and Jake, who is Chloe’s ex, Jeremy hides in a bathroom where he finds Michael, who has discovered some disturbing information about the Squips. Jeremy, under the guidance of the Squip, has risen in social status and the most popular girl in school, Chloe, tries to seduce him (" Do You Wanna Hang?"). Despite sinister omens, Jeremy takes the upgrade (" Upgrade").Ī few weeks later, the cool kids are at the biggest bash of the fall: Jake’s Halloween party (" Halloween"). The Squip tells Jeremy that to get Christine, he has to upgrade his popularity by dating Brooke and ignoring Michael. ![]() To his delight, Christine seems to have noticed the change in him too (" A Guy That I'd Kinda Be Into"), but she’s already dating super-stud Jake. The next day in school, Jeremy’s status has already improved (" More Than Survive (Reprise)"). The Squip informs Jeremy that he has to follow all of the Squip's commands in order to become popular (" Be More Chill (Part Two)"). It works, and Brooke, a popular girl, offers Jeremy a ride home (" Do You Wanna Ride?"), but he refuses in order to stay with Michael. Jeremy swallows it with Mountain Dew, which activates it, and the Squip appears in his mind (" The Squip Enters") to instruct him on how to interact with his peers (" Be More Chill (Part One)"). At the Menlo Park Mall, they buy a Squip in the backroom of a Payless shoe store. Later, Jeremy and Michael play video games as they debate the reality of this information (" Two-Player Game"). ![]() For the right price, Jeremy can have one too (" The Squip Song"). After rehearsal, the school bully Rich reveals the secret of his own popularity: he has a Squip, a tiny ingestible supercomputer that lives in his brain and tells him how to be cool. His best friend Michael convinces him to sign up for the school play to be close to his crush, artsy Christine (" I Love Play Rehearsal"), but Jeremy lacks the confidence to talk to her. There are no perks to being a wallflower for Jeremy Heere, a New Jersey high school loser just trying to make it through the day as he dodges bullies and popular kids (" More Than Survive"). 2015 A New Musical (with composer/lyricist Joe Iconis)
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