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Legit News: Green Day tuner sets open audition for national tour -- "American Idiot," the Broadway musical featuring band Green Day's tunes has been added to the Ahmanson's 2011-12 season.
The smash-hit musical AMERICAN IDIOT presented American Idiot Gives Back, a day of special performances on Thursday, December 16 to benefit Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. Free and open t…
Broadway.com – Fans have been flocking to the St. James Theatre to catch Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong rock out as the charismatic St. Jimmy in American Idiot, but on Janu…
American Idiot stars John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands and Michael Esper recently braved the freezing temperatures and hit the streets of NYC to bring some good will and holiday cheer to fans…
Tony award-winning actress Lea Salonga Miss Saigon, Les Miserables took time out to watch one of the most popular shows playing on Broadway Greenday's American Idiot at St. James Theatre in …
In what is thought to be a first for a Broadway show, the encore of every performance of the musical American Idiot is being recorded and offered as a free download on the show's website.
Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong finished his stint in American Idiot, the musical based on the Green Day punk-rock album, Feb. 27. The performance also marked the last for John Ga…
Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong is joining the cast of "American Idiot," the Broadway musical based on the band's 2004 album.
American Idiot will likely wind up doing a good deed for Broadway, simply by hauling in cash from a mosh-ready audience otherwise repelled by the place. It will also do its part to make the morbid "Broadway musical" seem a bit more with it. In return, the show had the good taste not to screw up its source material. Unfortunately, neither did it find a way to bring much to a great disk it didn't have already.
Anyone who had hoped that Green Day would finally bring punk-rock nihilism to Broadway is about to be sorely disappointed. Few could have predicted that American Idiot, the new adaptation of the band's massively popular, starkly disenchanted album of the same name, would be the feel-good musical of the season.
A permanent state of disaffection runs through this visually striking, musically adventurous take on the 2004 best-selling album that Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and director Michael Mayer have turned into a show. The musical is short, some 95 minutes. Just right for an MTV generation weaned on YouTube clips and music videos. American Idiot, in fact, plays like one. Wildly diverting to look at, the show has the barest wisp of a story and minimal character development. At best, its slacker guys are sketchy portraits, prototypes rather than real people. Fortunately, there are compensations, most notably the show's highly theatrical, punk-rock score, sung by a high-energy cast.
Fans of Green Day may well find bliss in American Idiot, the latest rock concert to pose as a Broadway show. There are six of them, if you're counting. With scorching arrangements by Tom Kitt, the songs sneer and whine just as a rock-n-roll concert ought to. Still, 90 minutes of barbaric yawp does not an opera, punk or otherwise, make.
Casting directors Cindy Tolan, Jim Carnahan and Alaine Alldaffer are among the winners of the Casting Society of America's 2010 Artios Awards, which were presented Nov. 1 in New York and Los…
Jeanna de Waal begins performances in the acclaimed musical AMERICAN IDIOT tonight, Tuesday, December 14, 2010 as Heather. Mary Faber soon to appear as Smitty in the revival of HOW TO SUCCEE…
Etheridge will fill in for the role of St. Jimmy in the musical "American Idiot" next month.Etheridge will fill in for the role of St. Jimmy in the musical "American Idiot" next month.
Grammy and Academy Award Award-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge joins the Broadway cast of American Idiot for one week only Feb. 1-6, playing the dark alter ego known as St. Jimmy.
Producers of American Idiot, the new rock musical based on the Green Day album of the same name, have donated a select number of seats to the Oct. 24 performance to benefit the Actors Fund.
When Broadway.com called out to readers for questions to ask American Idiot's John Gallagher Jr. we couldn't believe the overwhelming amount of responses that flooded our inbox! The Tony-win…
This show is not a terrible idea. Green Day's original 2004 American Idiot is pretty much mainstream rock's one and only credible album-length riposte to The (Fucking) Bush Years, not so muc…
