But What Will The Green Day Musical Look Like? [Jukebox Musical Heroes]
As you know, the director of Spring Awakening is developing a stage version of the Green Day album American Idiot to open this fall in Berkeley. Details, however, are sketchy. It will somehow follow characters from the album, despite it admittedly having no coherent storyline. But that hasn't stopped anyone before! There is a long tradition of "jukebox musicals" that throw together a bunch of songs from an individual artist, sometimes with an explicit plot, sometimes with a more abstract plot, a...
Rolling Stone — Green Day and the director of Broadway’s Spring Awakening are set to debut a musical based on the band’s 2004 punk epic American Idiot this autumn, the New York Times... more info
MTV.com News — 'Spring Awakening' director to stage musical featuring songs from Idiot and upcoming 21st Century Breakdown.
By Gil Kaufman
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike... more info
Idolator — As you know, the director of Spring Awakening is developing a stage version of the Green Day album American Idiot to open this fall in Berkeley. Details, however, are ske... more info
MTV.com News — 'It's still Green Day, but it's just bigger,' Matthew Cullen says of the clip, which debuts April 24 on MTV.By James Montgomery
Matthew Cullen
Photo: Jason Merritt/... more info
Guardian Music — California's perky punk-pop pups are working on a stage version of their American Idiot album. Next, Blink 182: The OperaIt "doesn't make a lot of sense," Billie Joe Arms... more info
VH1 News — Green Day and "Spring Awakening" director Michael Mayer are set to stage a musical featuring songs from American Idiot and upcoming 21st Century Breakdown at the Berkeley... more info
ContactMusic — A stage adaptation of the 2004 Green Day album American Idiot will premiere this autumn in California, it has been announced.Tony award-winning director Michael ... more info
ContactMusic — Rockers GREEN DAY will debut a musical based on their hit album AMERICAN IDIOT in September (09).
The band has long been rumoured to be turning their 2004 rock opera disc... more info
E! Online — These punks just want to sing. And dance. And put on a show!
Taking a page from their idols The Who, Green Day is hatching a musical production based on the 2004 multip... more info
Perez Hilton — Green Day is about to add "theater" to its resume!
A stage adaptation of the band's highly successful American Idiot will be opening the 2009-10 season of the Berkeley Re... more info