January 31, 2010
'American Idiot' Broadway cast to debut on Grammys
The Broadway-bound cast of “American Idiot” will tonight make its debut on the Grammy Awards broadcast on CBS alongside Green Day singing “21 Guns.”
The Broadway musical will star John Gallagher Jr., who won the best featured actor Tony Award in 2007 for Duncan Sheik’s “Spring Awakening,” producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman announced Thursday.
He’ll share the Broadway stage with Stark Sands, Michael Esper, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Christina Sajous, Mary Faber and Tony Vincent.
Producers describe the show like this:AMERICAN IDIOT follows the exhilarating journey of a new generation of young Americans as they struggle to find meaning in a post 9/11 world, borne along by Green Day’s electrifying score. This high-octane show includes every song from the acclaimed album American Idiot, as well as several songs from the band’s three-time GRAMMY®-nominated new release, 21st Century Breakdown
Broadway previews will begin March 24 with opening night planned for April 20.
It will play at the St. James Theatre, 246 W. 44th St., map. Tickets, which will go on sale to the general public starting Feb. 14, are priced from $32 to $127. Premium seats, including aisle seats which must be purchased in pairs, range from $142 to $177.
The musical, which is getting a pre-Broadway run at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, has already been reviewed by the New York Times’ Charles Isherwood. His conclusion:Mournful as it is about the prospects of 21st-century Americans, the show possesses a stimulating energy and a vision of wasted youth that holds us in its grip. And to ring a variation on the Woody Allen joke about sex being dirty if you’re doing it right, the only thing sadder than wasting your youth is not wasting it.
Picture credit: Mellopix.com/The Hartman Group.
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