My tickets were comped for review purposes courtesy of ATG. A jukebox musical based around the songs of Green Day isn’t as bizarre an idea as that sounds. American Idiot, the Grammy Award-winning album that kicked off the trio’s second coming as arena-punk giants, was written as a “punk-rock opera” – even if the band never actually planned for it to end up onstage. Now marking an unlikely 10th anniversary, and with a brace of Tony awards to its name, American Idiot – the musical co-created by Billie Joe Armstrong and theatre director Michael Mayer – is touring UK theatres with a star-studded cast. The result is… kind of a hot mess, if I’m honest, but with a cracking soundtrack guaranteed to get you out of your seat. The show fleshes out the plot of Green Day’s 2004 album with the addition of b-sides, tracks from 2009 follow-up 21st Century Breakdown and a Kerplunk!-era outtake that every other reviewer will tell you was newly-recorded for the show, but every other reviewer didn’t have Dave Hughes as her +1. It tracks a year in the life of three disaffected American youths as they try to escape suburbia and figure out their places in a chaotic, […]
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