The punks are invading the theater. A new musical production adapted from American Idiot, the best-selling album by the punk band Green Day, is scheduled to make its debut in September at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California.
Berkeley Rep is to announce Monday that the new work, also titled American Idiot, will have its premiere as the first production of the theaters 2009-10 season, and run from Sept. 4 through Oct. 11.
The musical is a collaboration between Green Day the Bay Area rock trio consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool and Michael Mayer, the Tony Award-winning director of Spring Awakening.
yes! AMERICAN IDIOT!!!!!! THE MUSICAL!!!!!!!! woo hoo! you have no idea how hard it is for me to NOT scream like the patheticaly obsessed fan girl that I am. OMG! bwahahahaha CALI TRIP SOON!!!
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