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In 2000 Green Day released the album Warning. Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau compared Warning to the band's previous album (Nimrod) and noted that "[Billie Joe Armstrong is] abandoning the first person. He's assuming fictional personas. And he's creating for himself the voice of a thinking left-liberal." Christgau also detected "a faint whiff" of the work from the theatrical composer/lyricist team of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.[7]
The trend of writing in the third person came to fruition with Green Day's next studio album, American Idiot in 2004. The first new song Green Day wrote was the single American Idiot.
One day, bassist Mike Dirnt was in the studio recording a 30-second song by himself. Armstrong decided he wanted to do the same, and drummer Tré Cool followed suit. Armstrong recalled, "It started getting more serious as we tried to outdo one another. We kept connecting these little half-minute bits until we had something." This musical suite became "Homecoming", and the group subsequently wrote another suite, "Jesus of Suburbia".
Armstrong was so emboldened by the creation of the two suites that he decided to make the record an album-long conceptual piece. The band took inspiration from concept records by The Who.[8] The album also was deliberately created with a plot arc and that some of their inspiration was from sources in the musical theater repertoire like The Rocky Horror Show and West Side Story and the concept album cum stage musical Jesus Christ, Superstar.[8][9] Armstrong also said the band intended "that it would be staged or we'd create a film or something... we were thinking in terms that it kind of felt like scoring a movie."[9]
Director Michael Mayer heard the album and expressed an interest in adapting it for the stage. When he approached the band about a collaboration, they agreed to work with him.[10] The band also gave Mayer wide latitude for his adaptation after seeing the director's earlier work with Spring Awakening.[9] Though additional songs were included from the Green Day catalog, Mayer added very little dialogue to the show. He felt instead that the music and lyrics were expressive enough on their own, and even removed some of the dialogue that was part of the Berkeley production before the show moved to Broadway.[11]
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The musical premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Previews began on September 4, 2009 and the official opening was on September 15, 2009.[12] After becoming the top-grossing show in Berkeley Rep history, the producers extended the limited run twice to November 15, 2009.[13] The cast included John Gallagher Jr. as Johnny, Matt Caplan as Tunny, Michael Esper as Will, Tony Vincent as St. Jimmy, Rebecca Naomi Jones as Whatsername, Mary Faber as Heather, and Christina Sajous as the Extraordinary Girl.[14]
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The musical transferred to Broadway at the St. James Theatre with previews beginning on March 24, 2010 and officially opened on April 20, 2010.[15] It is rumored that the show cost between $8 million and $10 million to produce.[16] After six months of performances, the show was "still a ways off from possibly turning a profit" according to a New York Times report.[16]
The original Broadway cast included John Gallagher Jr. as Johnny, Michael Esper as Will, Stark Sands as Tunny, Tony Vincent as St. Jimmy, Rebecca Naomi Jones as Whatsername, Mary Faber as Heather, and Christina Sajous as the Extraordinary Girl.[17]
Tom Kitt was the music supervisor and orchestrator for both the Berkeley and Broadway productions.[18] The lead producers for the show were Ira Pittelman and Tom Hulce.[19] The creative team for the show was largely the same as for the musical adaptation of Spring Awakening: Michael Mayer, director, Christine Jones, scenic designer, and Kevin Adams, lighting designer.[20] Andrea Lauer was the costume designer. Brian Ronan was the Sound Designer.
On September 26, 2010, Armstrong wrote on the official Green Day Twitter account that from September 28 to October 3 he would play the role of St. Jimmy. The announcement led to an immediate increase in sales of tickets at the St. James Theatre.[16] Ticket sales for the week Armstrong performed were up 77%, average ticket prices increased 22%, and gross sales increased 127% from the previous week's totals.[21][22][23] The singer-songwriter filled in for cast member Tony Vincent who took time off for personal matters; the following week after Armstrong's run, St. Jimmy's understudies, Andrew Call and Joshua Kobak, split covering the role.[16][24] On November 30, 2010, the producers announced that Armstrong would make another 50 appearances as St. Jimmy between January 1 and February 27, 2011.[25][26][27]
Armstrong's Broadway performances were among a number of personal appearances he has made to help promote the show.[16] As part of the promotion for the show, the cast performed at the Grammy Awards on January 31, 2010 with Green Day.[17]
In addition to Armstrong's stint as St. Jimmy, singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge played the part of St. Jimmy on Broadway from February 1–6, 2011, and Davey Havok of the alternative rock band AFI took the role from March 1-15, 2011.[28][29]
In the wake of weak sales following the departure of Armstrong from the role of St. Jimmy, The New York Times hinted that the producers could soon post a closing notice for the production.[30] The Broadway production was then scheduled to close on April 24, 2011 after 27 previews and 421 performances. Billie Joe Armstrong returned to the role of St. Jimmy for the final three weeks.[31]
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It was announced on February 11, 2011 that the musical would begin a national touring production on December 28, 2011, in Toronto, Canada. The first national tour cast included Van Hughes reprising his role as Johnny, Jake Epstein as Will, Scott J. Campbell as Tunny, Leslie McDonel as Heather, Gabrielle McClinton as Whatsername, and Nicci Claspell as The Extraordinary Girl. In addition, Broadway alumnus Joshua Kobak as St. Jimmy. The ensemble included Talia Aaron, Krystina Alabado, Gabriel Antonacci, Larkin Bogan, Jennifer Bowles, Matt Deangelis, Dan Gleason, Kelvin Moon Loh, Okieriete Onaodowan, and Jarran Muse as Favorite Son. The tours swings are Tommy McDowell, Jillian Mueller, and Vince Oddo.[32]
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On 1st December 2011, it was announced that the musical would be touring the UK, as well as Dublin, in Autumn 2012. The tour will also visit Manchester, Southampton, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Birmingham, London and Portsmouth[33]
[edit] | Tags: Second National Tour | 3>
A non-equity national tour will launch in January 2013. Kennedy Caughell joined the cast as Heather, while the rest of casting is not announced. The tour will start in Norfolk, Virginia on January 25, 2013.
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Set in the recent past, the musical opens on a group of suburban youths living unhappily in "Jingletown, USA" and saturated with TV. Fed up with the state of the union, the company explodes in frustration ("American Idiot"). One of the youths, Johnny, goes to commiserate with his friend Will ("Jesus of Suburbia"). A third friend, Tunny, joins the two and they party until they run out of beer, prompting them to pick up more at the local 7-11. Tunny soon exposes the do-nothing go-nowhere quicksand of their lives ("City of the Damned"). They get riled up, and Johnny challenges his friends to engage ("I Don't Care"). Will's girlfriend, Heather, soon makes an appearance. She is pregnant and doesn't know what to do ("Dearly Beloved"). Johnny borrows money and buys bus tickets to the city for the three young men, eager to escape suburbia. Before the boys are able to leave, Heather tells Will of her pregnancy. With no other choice, he stays home ("Tales of Another Broken Home"). Johnny and Tunny depart for the city with a group of other jaded youths ("Holiday").
While Johnny wanders the city and pines for a woman he sees in an apartment window ("Boulevard of Broken Dreams"), Tunny finds it hard to adjust to urban life and is seduced by a television ad for the army ("Favorite Son"). Tunny realizes that his generation has been so numbed and apathetic that nothing, not even the bright lights of the city, will excite him ("Are We the Waiting"). He enlists in the army.
A frustrated Johnny conjures a rebellious powerful reflection of himself called "St. Jimmy" and shoots heroin for the first time ("St. Jimmy"). Back in Jingletown, Will sits on the couch as his girlfriend's pregnancy progresses. He drinks beer and begs for a release. Meanwhile, Tunny is deployed to a war zone, and is soon shot and wounded ("Give Me Novacaine").
Johnny spends the night with the girl he saw in the window, whom he calls "Whatsername". Johnny is smitten with Whatsername and wants to celebrate, but St. Jimmy has other plans for them ("Last of the American Girls/She's a Rebel"). Johnny and Whatsername go to a club, shoot drugs together, and have passionate sex. By this time, Will and Heather's baby girl has been born, and Will is increasingly oblivious as Heather tenderly commits herself to her baby's future ("Last Night on Earth").
Heather has had enough of Will's pot-and-alcohol-fueled apathy. Despite Will's protestations, she takes the baby and walks out ("Too Much, Too Soon"). Around the same time, lying in a bed in an army hospital ("Before the Lobotomy"), Tunny falls victim to the hopelessness he has seen during wartime and hallucinates. He and his nurse engage in a balletic aerial dance ("Extraordinary Girl"). He quickly falls in love with her. His hallucination disappears, and he's left with his fellow soldiers in agony ("Before the Lobotomy (Reprise)").
Back in the city, Johnny reveals the depth of his love for with Whatsername ("When It's Time"). The temptation of drugs, however, is too great; Jimmy forces Johnny to become increasingly erratic, and he eventually threatens Whatsername (and then himself) with a knife ("Know Your Enemy"). Whatsername attempts to talk about Johnny's behavior, while the Extraordinary Girl dresses Tunny's wounds and Will sits on the couch, once again alone, with Heather and his child miles away ("21 Guns"). Johnny leaves a note for Whatsername, saying he has chosen Jimmy and drugs over her. Frightened and fed up, Whatsername tells Johnny that he is not the "Jesus of Suburbia" and reveals that St. Jimmy is nothing more than "a figment of [his] father's rage and [his] mother's love" ("Letterbomb"). She leaves him.
Hurt by Whatsername's departure, Johnny longs for better days ahead, Tunny longs for home, and Will longs for all the things he's lost ("Wake Me Up When September Ends"). St. Jimmy appears and makes one last attempt to get Johnny's attention, but that part of Johnny has died, resulting in the metaphorical suicide of St. Jimmy ("The Death of St. Jimmy"). Johnny cleans up and gets a desk job but soon realizes there is no place for him in the city ("East 12th Street"). Will, all alone with his television, bemoans his outcast state ("Nobody Likes You"). As he finally gets up off the couch, Heather appears with her new show-off rockstar boyfriend ("Rock and Roll Girlfriend"). Will heads to the 7-Eleven to get away from them and, surprisingly, finds Johnny there. Johnny had sold his guitar for a bus ticket home. Tunny returns from the war zone (as an amputee) with the Extraordinary Girl. As Tunny introduces his friends to the Extraordinary Girl, Johnny becomes furious with him for leaving the group, but quickly forgives him and the three friends embrace. Heather and her boyfriend arrive. In an uneasy truce, she gives the baby to Will. Other friends show up to greet the three men they haven't seen in a year ("We're Coming Home Again"). One year later, Johnny laments that he lost the love of his life, but he accepts that he can live inside the struggle between rage and love that has defined his life. With this acceptance comes the possibility of hope ("Whatsername").
After the cast takes their bows, the curtain rises to reveal the entire company with guitars, with which they perform the song, "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)".
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There are seven principal characters in American Idiot: Johnny, Will, Heather, Whatsername, The Extraordinary Girl, Tunny, and St. Jimmy.[34][35]
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Johnny, also known as "Jesus of Suburbia", is the main protagonist of the story and most of the plot points revolve around his picaresque journey. On his journey he experiences nihilism, drug abuse, and lost love. The role was created for the Berkeley and Broadway runs by Tony-Award-winner John Gallagher, Jr.[35] When Gallagher left the production, Van Hughes, who was previously the three leads' standby, took over the role full-time. In addition, Hughes reprised his role for the first national tour.
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Will is one of Johnny's best friends. He plans to leave town with the group until his girlfriend, Heather, reveals that she is pregnant with his child. Will stays at home and in an alcohol and drug infused depression. The role was created for the Berkeley and Broadway runs by Michael Esper.[35] When Esper left the production, the role was taken over by American Idol alumnus Justin Guarini for the remainder of the run. Former Degrassi star Jake Epstein is currently playing Will in the national tour.
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Tunny is another of Johnny's best friends. He accompanies Johnny to the city, but soon joins the military and is sent off to war. Tunny suffers serious injuries and loses a leg. During his rehabilitation, he falls in love with his nurse, The Extraordinary Girl, and the two accompany each other home at the end of the story. Matt Caplan created the role of Tunny for the Berkeley performances.[35] When American Idiot opened on Broadway, Stark Sands played the role. When Sands left the production, the role was taken over by David Larsen. Actor Scott J. Campbell now plays Tunny on tour.
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Whatsername is a nameless, attractive young woman who accompanies Johnny on his pleasure-seeking journey of sex and drugs. She eventually realizes that their relationship is mutually destructive and leaves him. The role was created for the Berkeley and Broadway runs by Rebecca Naomi Jones, who played the part until the end of the Broadway run. Gabrielle McClinton has taken over the role of Whatsername for the first national tour.[34][35]
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Heather is Will's girlfriend. Her unplanned pregnancy causes Will to stay behind when his friends leave town. She leaves Will and begins a relationship with another man to protect their child. She eventually leads a life of glamour that is in stark contrast to Will's couch-wallowing ways. The role was created for the Berkeley and Broadway runs by Mary Faber.[35] She was replaced on Broadway by Jeanna de Waal for the remainder of the run. Leslie McDonel, who understudied the role of Heather on Broadway, has taken over full time for the first national tour.[34]
[edit] | Tags: The Extraordinary Girl | 4>
The Extraordinary Girl is a nurse who treats Tunny after he is wounded in war. She also appears in Tunny's dreams and hallucinations. The two eventually fall in love and accompany each other home after the war. The role was created for the Berkeley and Broadway runs by Christina Sajous.[35] When Sajous left the production, ensemble member and Extraordinary Girl understudy Libby Winters was promoted to full-time. Currently, Nicci Claspell performs as Extraordinary Girl for the national tour.[34]
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St. Jimmy is an adventurous drug dealer. It is eventually revealed that Jimmy is only a drug-addled manifestation of Johnny's id. The role of St. Jimmy was created for the Berkeley and Broadway runs by Tony Vincent.[34][35] The part has become a star vehicle for rock artists, allowing several of them to make their Broadway debuts. Billie Joe Armstrong covered for Tony Vincent from September 27, 2010 to October 3, 2010 and then took over the role for two months when Vincent left the production in January 2011. Melissa Etheridge then covered for Billie Joe Armstrong from February 1, 2011 to February 6, 2011.[36] Davey Havok of AFI replaced Billie Joe Armstrong in the role of "St. Jimmy" beginning on March 1, 2011.[37] Billie Joe Armstrong reprised the role of St. Jimmy on April 5, 2011 until the show closed on April 24, 2011. Former Broadway swing and St. Jimmy understudy Joshua Kobak now plays the character on tour.
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The show features all of the songs from the album American Idiot, some B-tracks and a few of the songs from Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown.[38]
"American Idiot" - Company
"Jesus of Suburbia"
"Jesus of Suburbia" - Johnny and Will
"City of the Damned" - Tunny, Johnny, Will, & Company
"I Don't Care" - Johnny, Will, Tunny, & Company
"Dearly Beloved" - Heather & Men
"Tales of Another Broken Home" - Johnny, Will, Tunny, Heather, & Company
"Holiday" - Johnny, Tunny, Theo, & Company
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Johnny, Whatsername, Tunny, & Men
"Favorite Son" - Favorite Son & Women
"Are We the Waiting" - Tunny, Favorite Son, & Company
"St. Jimmy" - Johnny, Miguel, Declan, Theo, St. Jimmy, & Company
"Give Me Novacaine" - Will, Tunny, & Company
"Last of the American Girls/She's a Rebel" - Johnny, Whatsername, Gerard, Chase, St. Jimmy, & Company
"Last Night on Earth" - St. Jimmy, Whatsername, Heather, & Company
"Too Much Too Soon" - Theo, Alysha, Will, & Heather
"Before the Lobotomy" - Tunny, Joshua, Ben, & Chase
"Extraordinary Girl" - Extraordinary Girl, Tunny, & Company
"Before the Lobotomy (Reprise)" - Tunny, Joshua, Ben, & Chase
"When It's Time" - Johnny
"Know Your Enemy" - St. Jimmy, Will, Johnny, & Company
"21 Guns" - Whatsername, Extraordinary Girl, Heather, Tunny, Johnny, Will, & Company
"Letterbomb" - Whatsername & Women
"Wake Me Up When September Ends" - Johnny, Will, Tunny, & Company
"Homecoming"
"The Death of St. Jimmy" - St. Jimmy & Johnny
"East 12th St." - Johnny, Theo, Gerard, & Company
"Nobody Likes You" - Will & Company
"Rock and Roll Girlfriend" - Miguel, Heather, Will, & Company
"We're Coming Home Again" - Johnny, Tunny, Will, & Company
"Whatsername" - Johnny & Company
"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" - Company
Green Day re-released the single "21 Guns" with the musical cast on Spinner.com on December 3, 2009.[39] This version features Billie Joe Armstrong, together with Christina Sajous, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Mary Faber and Matt Caplan, with backup from the rest of American Idiot cast. Another version was released with John Gallagher, Jr., Michael Esper and Caplan singing the parts that Armstrong had previously sung. Green Day and the cast of the musical also performed the song at the 2010 Grammy Awards on January 31, 2010.[40]
The original cast recording of the musical was released on April 20, 2010.[41] The cast album includes all the songs featured in the musical plus a brand new recording of "When It's Time" by Green Day. The instrumentation of the recording is also played by Green Day. The album won Best Musical Show Album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.
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Reviews for the Berkeley Rep production were mixed. Charles McNulty of latimes.com called the show "Kinetically entertaining in a way that intentionally reflects the shallow, media-saturated culture the album rails against".[42] Karen D'Souza of MercuryNews.com called the production "a thrashing collage of songs fused together with hypnotic movement and eye-popping visuals" and thought the show "as compelling as it is abstract [and] channels the grungy spirit of punk while also plucking at the heartstrings."[43] However, Jim Harrington of the Oakland Tribune compared the show unfavorably to the original album, writing: "[what] once was a fine Gouda, has been prepackaged as Velveeta", and continued sarcastically, "In other words, it should do big business on Broadway."[44] Charles Isherwood of The New York Times commented that the show contained "characters who lack much in the way of emotional depth or specificity, and plotlines that are simple to the point of crudity" but also felt that "the show possesses a stimulating energy and a vision of wasted youth that holds us in its grip."[45]
Isherwood's review for the Broadway production was enthusiastic. He called the show "a pulsating portrait of wasted youth that invokes all the standard genre conventions ... only to transcend them through the power of its music and the artistry of its execution, the show is as invigorating and ultimately as moving as anything I’ve seen on Broadway this season. Or maybe for a few seasons past."[4] Jed Gottlieb of the Boston Herald enjoyed the premise of the show but found that "the music and message suffer in a setting where the audience is politely, soberly seated".[46] Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press found the show to be "visually striking [and] musically adventurous", but noted that "the show has the barest wisp of a story and minimal character development".[47] Paul Kolnik in USA Today enjoyed the contradiction that Green Day's "massively popular, starkly disenchanted album ... would be the feel-good musical of the season".[48] Time magazine's Richard Zoglin opined that the score "is as pure a specimen of contemporary punk rock as Broadway has yet encountered [yet] there's enough variety. ... Where the show fall short is as a fully developed narrative." He concluded that "American Idiot, despite its earnest huffing and puffing, remains little more than an annotated rock concert. ... Still, [it] deserves at least two cheers – for its irresistible musical energy and for opening fresh vistas for that odd couple, rock and Broadway."[49] Peter Travers from Rolling Stone, in his review of American Idiot, wrote "Though American Idiot carries echoes of such rock musicals as Tommy, Hair, Rent and Spring Awakening, it cuts its own path to the heart. You won’t know what hit you. American Idiot knows no limits — it's a global knockout."[50] UpVenue described the musical as a "groundbreaking piece of artistry," having the "emotional charge of Rent," and congratulated Green Day for immortalizing American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown.[24]
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American Idiot (the musical) won a total of 6 awards from 20 nominations. At a meeting of the Tony Administration Committee on April 30, 2010, the score of American Idiot was deemed ineligible for a Tony Award for Best Original Score nomination because less than 50% of it was written for the stage production.[51]
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Year
Award Ceremony
Category
Nominee
Result
2010
Broadway.com Audience Award[52][53]
Favourite New Broadway Musical
Nominated
Favourite Ensemble Cast
Won
Favourite Leading Actor in a Musical
John Gallagher, Jr.
Won
Favourite Performance by a Featured Actor in a Broadway Musical
Michael Esper
Nominated
Stark Sands
Nominated
Tony Vincent
Nominated
Favourite Performance by a Featured Actress in a Broadway Musical
Rebecca Naomi Jones
Nominated
Favourite Onstage Pair
John Gallagher, Jr. and Rebecca Naomi Jones
Nominated
Drama Desk Award[54][55]
Outstanding Musical
Nominated
Outstanding Director of a Musical
Michael Mayer
Won
Outstanding Orchestrations
Tom Kitt
Nominated
Drama League Award[56]
Distinguished Production of a Musical
Nominated
Distinguished Performance
John Gallagher, Jr.
Nominated
Tony Vincent
Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award[57][58]
Outstanding New Broadway Musical
Nominated
Outstanding Lighting Design
Kevin Adams
Won
Tony Award[5][59]
Best Musical
Nominated
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Christine Jones
Won
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams
Won
2011
Grammy Award
Best Musical Show Album
Won
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The following is a month-by-month breakdown of sales, attendance, and performance data for the production at the 1709-seat St. James Theater.[60]
Time period
Attendance
Gross sales
Average Paid Admission
Percent of Capacity
References
March 24 – April 4, 2010 (12 previews)
16,879
$1,312,033
$77.73
82.3%
[61][62]
April 5 – May 2, 2010 (14 previews, 16 performances)
38,195
$2,591,496
$67.85
74.5%
[63][64][65][66]
May 3 – June 6, 2010 (40 performances)
47,371
$3,898,058
$82.29
69.3%
[67][68][69][70][71]
June 7 – July 4, 2010 (31 performances)
36,876
$3,082,501
$83.59
69.6%
[72][73][74][75]
July 5 – August 1, 2010 (32 performances)
39,793
$3,199,187
$80.40
72.8%
[76][77][78][79]
August 2 – September 5, 2010 (40 performances)
45,125
$3,535,540
$78.35
66.0%
[80][81][82][83][84]
September 6 – October 3, 2010 (31 performances)
36,363
$2,491,234
$68.51
68.6%
[22][85][86][87]
October 4 – 31, 2010 (32 performances)
28,202
$1,983,404
$70.33
51.6%
[88][89][90][91]
November 1 - December 5, 2010 (40 performances)
33,334
$2,452,032
$73.56
48.8%
[92][93][94][95][96]
December 6, 2010 - January 2, 2011 (32 performances)
33,694
$2,694,839
$79.98
61.6%
[97][98][99][100]
January 3 - February 6, 2011 (40 performances)
47,347
$3,912,616
$82.64
69.3%
[101][102][103][104][105]
February 7 - March 6, 2011 (32 performances)
43,148
$3,818,799
$88.50
78.9%
[106][107][108][109]
March 7-April 3, 2011 (32 performances)
32,498
$1,912,847
$58.86
59.4%
[110][111][112][113]
April 4–24, 2011 (24 performances)
31,898
$2,913,465
$91.34
77.8%
[114][115][116]
Totals
422 performances, 26 previews
510,723
$39,798,051
$77.92
66.7%
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In 2010, Tom Hanks and his production company, Playtone, optioned the musical to create a film version.[117][118][119] On April 13, 2011, it was announced that Universal Pictures had begun initial negotiations.[120] Dustin Lance Black has been selected to adapt the screenplay from the musical for the film.[120] Michael Mayer, who also directed the Broadway version will be directing the film while the producers will be Green Day, Pat Magnarella, Playtone and Tom Hulce, who served as producer of the Broadway production.[120] Magnarella is Green Day's manager and was a producer for the band's live albums Bullet in a Bible, Awesome as Fuck, and the documentary Heart Like a Hand Grenade.[120] Rolling Stone reported that Billie Joe Armstrong would be starring as St. Jimmy in the film, and that it was set for a 2013 released date. However, Armstrong later posted on his Twitter account that he hadn't "totally committed to St. Jimmy for the AI movie." and "Yes, I'm interested. Yes someone jumped the gun..." [121] No other cast members have been confirmed.[122]
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^ Hurwitt, Robert (2009-03-31), "Green Day's hits turn into Berkeley Rep musical", San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/31/DD8R16NNSN.DTL
^ a b Isherwood, Charles (2010-04-21), "Stomping Onto Broadway With a Punk Temper Tantrum", New York Times, http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/theater/reviews/21idiot.html?scp=1&sq=american%20idiot&st=cse
^ a b "Who's Nominated?". Tony Awards. IBM Corp.. http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/index.html. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
^ American Idiot Wins Grammy for Best Musical Show Album!, 2011-02-13, http://broadwayworld.com/article/AMERICAN_IDIOT_Wins_GRAMMY_for_Best_Musical_Show_Album_20110213
^ Christgau, Robert (2000-10-17), "Ina Dancehall Groove—Finally", The Village Voice, http://www.villagevoice.com/2000-10-17/music/ina-dancehall-groove-finally/
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^ Jones, Kenneth (2009-09-16), "Green Day's American Idiot, the Musical, Opens on Broadway", Playbill.com, http://www.playbill.com/news/article/132870-Green-Days-American-Idiot-Musical-Shaped-by-Tony-Winner-Mayer-Opens-in-CA-Sept-16
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^ Sales data is reported weekly. For the sake of simplicity, the fiscal month starts on the first Monday of the month.
^ Ku, Andrew (2010-03-29), "Broadway Grosses: March 22–28", Playbill.com, http://www.playbill.com/features/article/138284-Broadway-Grosses-March-22-28
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