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New dates will be announced soon, so keep checking back!
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GREEN DAY MUSICAL AMERICAN IDIOT COMING TO MANCHESTER | Greenday.com Skip to main content area HomeNewsMusicPicsVidsTourIdiot ClubStore Subnav ExtrasRingtonesVoteInternationalRock BandFoxboro Hot TubsRusty Wired Series FleeceHoven Vision SunglassesAmerican Idiot BILLIE'S TWITTER E-MAILRSSITUNESTWITTERFACEBOOKMYSPACEYOUTUBE Sign up for Green Day's Mailing List GREEN DAY MUSICAL AMERICAN IDIOT COMING TO MANCHESTER
THE incredibly successful chart-topping Green Day album, American Idiot, has been turned into a stage musical and is set to wow audiences in Manchester this winter.
The performance will be on at the Palace Theatre from November 12-24.
It tells the story of three boyhood friends, each searching for meaning in a post 9/11 world.
American Idiot features the music of Green Day including popular well-known songs such as Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends, and Holiday, as well as the blockbuster title track from Green Day’s 2004 Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum album.
Green Day frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, said: “We’re excited to be bringing the US stage production of American Idiot to the UK and Ireland.”
“We played to some of the most insane crowds when we toured the album there, and we can’t wait for our friends across the pond to see the musical.”
American Idiot is already the winner of two Tony Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.
For tickets call 0844 372 7272 or visit www.manchesterpalace.org.uk
Full article at Chester Chronicle: HERE
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GREEN DAY MUSICAL AMERICAN IDIOT COMING TO MANCHESTER | Greenday.com Skip to main content area HomeNewsMusicPicsVidsTourIdiot ClubStore Subnav ExtrasRingtonesVoteInternationalRock BandFoxboro Hot TubsRusty Wired Series FleeceHoven Vision SunglassesAmerican Idiot BILLIE'S TWITTER E-MAILRSSITUNESTWITTERFACEBOOKMYSPACEYOUTUBE Sign up for Green Day's Mailing List GREEN DAY MUSICAL AMERICAN IDIOT COMING TO MANCHESTER
THE incredibly successful chart-topping Green Day album, American Idiot, has been turned into a stage musical and is set to wow audiences in Manchester this winter.
The performance will be on at the Palace Theatre from November 12-24.
It tells the story of three boyhood friends, each searching for meaning in a post 9/11 world.
American Idiot features the music of Green Day including popular well-known songs such as Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends, and Holiday, as well as the blockbuster title track from Green Day’s 2004 Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum album.
Green Day frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, said: “We’re excited to be bringing the US stage production of American Idiot to the UK and Ireland.”
“We played to some of the most insane crowds when we toured the album there, and we can’t wait for our friends across the pond to see the musical.”
American Idiot is already the winner of two Tony Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.
For tickets call 0844 372 7272 or visit www.manchesterpalace.org.uk
Full article at Chester Chronicle: HERE
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GREEN DAY'S TONY AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL RETURNS TO BAY AREA | Greenday.com Skip to main content area HomeNewsMusicPicsVidsTourIdiot ClubStore Subnav ExtrasRingtonesVoteInternationalRock BandFoxboro Hot TubsRusty Wired Series FleeceHoven Vision SunglassesAmerican Idiot BILLIE'S TWITTER E-MAILRSSITUNESTWITTERFACEBOOKMYSPACEYOUTUBE Sign up for Green Day's Mailing List GREEN DAY'S TONY AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL RETURNS TO BAY AREA
"American Idiot" may have had its New York run, but it's always been a Bay Area show. And this month, Green Day's rock opera finally returned.
Audience members at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre gave a standing ovation after the cast rocked through "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and of course, "American Idiot."
The show, Green Day's epic comment on post-9/11 society, originated at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2009 and was quickly scooped up by Broadway. SHN's run is the show's first return to the Bay Area.
No sign of Billie Joe, Mike Dirnt or Tre Cool at the Orpheum yet, but there's still a month to go. Here's hoping.
Check out photos of American Idiot at SHN, courtesy of Soja Photography, in our slideshow
Full article at Huffington PostHERE
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FIVE REASONS TO SEE AMERICAN IDIOT THE MUSICAL | Greenday.com Skip to main content area HomeNewsMusicPicsVidsTourIdiot ClubStore Subnav ExtrasRingtonesVoteInternationalRock BandFoxboro Hot TubsRusty Wired Series FleeceHoven Vision SunglassesAmerican Idiot BILLIE'S TWITTER E-MAILRSSITUNESTWITTERFACEBOOKMYSPACEYOUTUBE Sign up for Green Day's Mailing List FIVE REASONS TO SEE AMERICAN IDIOT THE MUSICAL
Based on Green Day’s 2004 Grammy winning album American Idiot, the well-received Broadway musical of the same name returns to San Francisco for a brief run. The latest incarnation is just as exhilarating and packs enough wallop to satisfy grown-up fans fondly recalling the mosh pits of yesteryear.
At times, though, it feels like a diluted mall-punk pastiche designed to engage short attention spans and replace nuance and anarchic thought with innocuous clichés. If intentional, this oversimplification may be tongue-in-cheek and a tacit meta-theatrical nod to the generally accepted notion that discourse must be dumbed down to accommodate the American electorate.
Below are five reasons to check out American Idiot and decide what the performance means for contemporary American culture:
1. It’s a galvanizing 90-minute punk rock trip back to the turn of the 21st century that visually recreates what it felt like to come-of-age in the tense years and charged political climate following the events of September 11.
2. While the inane dialogue and gratuitous use of profanity can be disaffecting, American Idiot aptly portrays the ennui of three alienated misfits from suburbia—Johnny, Tunny and Will—who yearn for more than a life of couch surfing and getting wasted in the parking lot of the local 7-11.
3. The fast paced choreography and hypnotic neon visuals aptly mimic the disjunctive media overload that leads the naive trio of lost boys to experiment with drugs, suffer the scintillating cruel anguish of war and experience the stress of young parenthood and broken homes.
4. Gabrielle McClinto shines in the role of punk rock rebel girl, Whatshername, the love interest of Johnny; and Van Hughes, as Johnny, performs with a panache that resembles Billy Joe Armstrong’s ferocious and endearing stage presence.
5. Multi-episodic track “Homecoming,” which marks the denouement of the musical narrative with the first interlude, “The Death of St. Jimmy,” or the destruction of the nihilistic self within Johnny, cleverly equates conformity (joining the corporate suit-and-tie workforce) with individual suicide and a loss of personal freedom.
Performances for American Idiot continue at Orpheum Theatre through July 8.
Full article at SF Station: HERE
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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"Camelot."It's a gritty, urban-inspired show that uses the same punk songs that made the band famous, and adds more than a smattering of simulated drug use, strong language and other adult situations.
"American Idiot," which arrives in Costa Mesa on May 29, follows the lives of three disaffected suburban youths: Johnny, Will and Tunny.
The country's residents are riveted by their television sets, and the boys want a way out. Johnny and Tunny move to the big city, where Tunny soon is brainwashed by an Army recruitment ad, shipped off to war, and wounded. Johnny, in the meantime, discovers heroin — and love. Passive-aggressive Will stays at home to support his pregnant girlfriend, but takes his solace in beer and pot.
The musical is based in part on Green Day's 2004 "American Idiot" studio album, and more specifically with the song that became "Homecoming."
The three band members spent a day in the studio creating solo 30-second songs, which later merged and connected into the song, and inspired a full concept album akin toThe Who's"Tommy" orAndrew Lloyd Webber's"Jesus Christ Superstar."
Michael Mayer, the director of the wildly successful modern musical "Spring Awakening," heard the album and approached the band about adapting it for the stage. It had a successful run on Broadway before being launched as a nationwide touring production.
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"Camelot."It's a gritty, urban-inspired show that uses the same punk songs that made the band famous, and adds more than a smattering of simulated drug use, strong language and other adult situations.
"American Idiot," which arrives in Costa Mesa on May 29, follows the lives of three disaffected suburban youths: Johnny, Will and Tunny.
The country's residents are riveted by their television sets, and the boys want a way out. Johnny and Tunny move to the big city, where Tunny soon is brainwashed by an Army recruitment ad, shipped off to war, and wounded. Johnny, in the meantime, discovers heroin — and love. Passive-aggressive Will stays at home to support his pregnant girlfriend, but takes his solace in beer and pot.
The musical is based in part on Green Day's 2004 "American Idiot" studio album, and more specifically with the song that became "Homecoming."
The three band members spent a day in the studio creating solo 30-second songs, which later merged and connected into the song, and inspired a full concept album akin toThe Who's"Tommy" orAndrew Lloyd Webber's"Jesus Christ Superstar."
Michael Mayer, the director of the wildly successful modern musical "Spring Awakening," heard the album and approached the band about adapting it for the stage. It had a successful run on Broadway before being launched as a nationwide touring production.
FIVE REASONS TO SEE AMERICAN IDIOT THE MUSICAL | Greenday.com Skip to main content area HomeNewsMusicPicsVidsTourIdiot ClubStore Subnav ExtrasRingtonesVoteInternationalRock BandFoxboro Hot TubsRusty Wired Series FleeceHoven Vision SunglassesAmerican Idiot BILLIE'S TWITTER E-MAILRSSITUNESTWITTERFACEBOOKMYSPACEYOUTUBE Sign up for Green Day's Mailing List FIVE REASONS TO SEE AMERICAN IDIOT THE MUSICAL
Based on Green Day’s 2004 Grammy winning album American Idiot, the well-received Broadway musical of the same name returns to San Francisco for a brief run. The latest incarnation is just as exhilarating and packs enough wallop to satisfy grown-up fans fondly recalling the mosh pits of yesteryear.
At times, though, it feels like a diluted mall-punk pastiche designed to engage short attention spans and replace nuance and anarchic thought with innocuous clichés. If intentional, this oversimplification may be tongue-in-cheek and a tacit meta-theatrical nod to the generally accepted notion that discourse must be dumbed down to accommodate the American electorate.
Below are five reasons to check out American Idiot and decide what the performance means for contemporary American culture:
1. It’s a galvanizing 90-minute punk rock trip back to the turn of the 21st century that visually recreates what it felt like to come-of-age in the tense years and charged political climate following the events of September 11.
2. While the inane dialogue and gratuitous use of profanity can be disaffecting, American Idiot aptly portrays the ennui of three alienated misfits from suburbia—Johnny, Tunny and Will—who yearn for more than a life of couch surfing and getting wasted in the parking lot of the local 7-11.
3. The fast paced choreography and hypnotic neon visuals aptly mimic the disjunctive media overload that leads the naive trio of lost boys to experiment with drugs, suffer the scintillating cruel anguish of war and experience the stress of young parenthood and broken homes.
4. Gabrielle McClinto shines in the role of punk rock rebel girl, Whatshername, the love interest of Johnny; and Van Hughes, as Johnny, performs with a panache that resembles Billy Joe Armstrong’s ferocious and endearing stage presence.
5. Multi-episodic track “Homecoming,” which marks the denouement of the musical narrative with the first interlude, “The Death of St. Jimmy,” or the destruction of the nihilistic self within Johnny, cleverly equates conformity (joining the corporate suit-and-tie workforce) with individual suicide and a loss of personal freedom.
Performances for American Idiot continue at Orpheum Theatre through July 8.
Full article at SF Station: HERE
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http://t.co/0mJIsycQ
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