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Green Day have rounded out the creative team that will help turn the band's 2004 rock opera American Idiot into a musical. Joining director Michael Mayer, who also worked on the Tony Award-winning ...
The cast of "American Idiot" the musical, based on Green Day's music, perform the opening number. In June 2008, when Green Day’s pop-punk album “American Idiot” was in the workshop stage of ...
Green Day stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to chat about the musical version of their 2004 punk rock opus, American Idiot, which premieres April 20 at Broadway’s St. James Theatre.Watch ...
Michael Mayer is a huge Green Day fan – not surprising, since he is credited with co-writing as well as helming the musical built on their multi-platinum-selling album, “American Idiot.” ...
Punk band Green Day skyrocketed to fame in the 1990s, but is winning over an entirely new audience with its latest offering: a Broadway musical. But their “American Idiot” is a far cry from ...
Green Day's "American Idiot" is headed from disc to stage. Michael Mayer, the Tony Award-winning director of "Spring Awakening," is adapting the trio's 2004 concept album -- which sold 12 million ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It’s official. The much-talked-about and blogged-about Green Day ...
In "Last of the American Girls," the latest video off Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown, the band bridge the gap between their punk-rock operas and their upcoming American Idiot Broadway musical ...
"American Idiot," the Green Day musical that opened Wednesday at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, begins with visuals of Donald Trump. It's a fitting start to director Snehal Desai's updated staging ...
“American Idiot” has sterling credentials. The rock musical, based on Green Day’s 2004 Grammy-winning, multiplatinum album of the same name, won two Tony Awards in 2010. But you don’t need ...
On April 12, 2025, Green Day delivered a high-octane performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, bringing their seminal album ‘American Idiot’ to life on the main stage. The ...
Green Day have a new movie in the works, but Billie Joe Armstrong still has his eyes on another film project — an adaptation of the American Idiot musical — that was planned but never made.