“Be More Chill” is being performed as it was always meant to be.

“…Helwig brings equal parts goofiness and swagger as Jake, the jock and perpetual club leader who catches Christina's eye.”

“His scenes with Surasee Das as Liat were so genuinely affecting that you’d be hard pressed not to get a bit emotional.”

"Helwig plays Lt. Joseph Cable so convincingly that we immediately embrace this Princeton-educated officer's dismay at his attraction to island girl Liat. [He] invests his "Younger Than Springtime" with palpable longing and adds layered meaning to "Carefully Taught."

"Helwig [is] there purely for the thrill of the chase seen in [his] gently sung tribute to narcissism,
"Agony.""