American Idiot on Broadway

Anyone Else Think This is Awesome?

Or is it just me?

American Idiot - you know, Green Day's concept album of disillusionment in America, a rock opera to be told - is coming to Broadway.

Anyone excited other than me? I'm getting crickets over here...

Let's break it down. The concept as a Broadway show has been rumored to be in development for months and months already, but it was just announced yesterday that it was actually happening.

The St. James Theatre is playing host to the show for a very very short amount of time. The opening is March 24, 2010 and closes April 20, 2010. No one has been cast yet, but the buzz is building. According to the LA Times the plot follows the journey of the protagonist Johnny, a modern-day Christ figure who travels from a suburban nowhere to the big city, where he must choose between love, drugs and other existential dilemmas. The story also follows a character to the Middle East.

The show comes to us from Berkeley Repertory Theatre where it shattered all of the theater's records and was extended twice, so it's expected to do pretty well.

Check it.

~Ferdinando