Green Day's 'American Idiot' to become stage musical - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 03-30-2009, 10:41 AM

Green Day's 2004 album American Idiot -- composed as a disaffected punk opera about a suburban kid-turned-drug dealer -- will get its due as a stage musical when it opens the 2009-10 season at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, Variety reports. Spring Awakening Tony winner Michael Mayer will direct and cowrite the script with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. The Grammy-winning concept album sold 12 million copies and has been compared to The Who's Tommy, which became a Broadway hit in 1993, though there are no Broadway plans for Idiot as of yet.

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/03/green-days-amer.html

MonarC · 03-30-2009, 12:03 PM

Awesome! Love that song!

03-30-2009, 10:41 AM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	Green Day's 'American Idiot' to become stage musical Green Day's 2004 album American Idiot -- composed as a disaffected punk opera about a suburban kid-turned-drug dealer -- will get its due as a stage musical when it opens the 2009-10 season at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, Variety reports. Spring Awakening Tony winner Michael Mayer will direct and cowrite the script with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. The Grammy-winning concept album sold 12 million copies and has been compared to The Who's Tommy, which became a Broadway hit in 1993, though there are no Broadway plans for Idiot as of yet. http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/03/green-days-amer.html
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03-30-2009, 12:03 PM	#2
MonarC The truth will set you free Forum Fanatic Join Date: Dec 05, 2002 Location: 3rd Stone From The Sun Posts: 9,525	Awesome! Love that song!