Saturday, April 17, 2010
Green Day's American Idiot hits Great White Way
Reuters: "Onstage, faded rock posters and multiple TV screens provide the backdrop for 95 minutes of singing, dancing and Green Day songs. The plot centers on three young men trying to escape dead-end suburban lives. Will fails to get in gear even when his girlfriend falls pregnant; the other two 'succeed,' in a manner of speaking. Tunny winds up being seduced by a flashy military recruiter, goes to war and promptly loses a leg and gains a nurse to love. The other, the Jesus of Suburbia on 2004's 'American Idiot' album, renamed Johnny, picks up a dope habit and girlfriend, loses the latter because of the former and winds up right back where he started. He comes home, along with his friends, emboldened with a new sense of personal responsibility."
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While I wish that Green Day would break its relationship with MTV, or rather, that MTV would release its death grip on Green Day, I'm glad the show is going forward. While I don't desperately think its talking about something revolutionary or fantastic, I think it could be a good play to bring some life back to broadway and entreat a younger audience, as I've said before. It would be a shame for it to flop sooner rather than later, I wouldn't be too surprised if it didn't. I don't see a lot of "mature" audiences going to see this show, but who knows!
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