AMERICAN IDIOT BROADWAY REVIEWS
Opening Night: April 20, 2010
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Synopsis: Based on the Reprise Records Grammy® Award-winning album of the same name, American Idiot follows working-class characters from the suburbs to the city to the Middle East, as they seek redemption in a world filled with frustration - an exhilarating journey borne along by Green Day's electrifying songs. This high-octane show includes every song from the album, as well as several new songs from 21st Century Breakdown.
Broadway Reviews
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW:
"Rage and love, those consuming emotions felt with a particularly acute pang in youth, all but burn up the stage in “American Idiot,” the thrillingly raucous and gorgeously wrought Broadway musical adapted from the blockbuster pop-punk album by Green Day."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW:
"The angry, aimless youth who populate the stage adaptation of Green Day's "American Idiot" have found their way to Broadway, venting their cynical unhappiness with life in the same theater that once housed such sunny, all-American musical-theater classics as "Oklahoma!" and "Hello, Dolly!""
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NEW YORK POST REVIEW:
"The new Broadway musical "American Idiot" starts off at a fever pitch -- and stays there. By the time it ends, 90 minutes later, you may feel more numbed than stirred.
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VARIETY REVIEW:
"In the tradition of "Hair," "Rent" and "Spring Awakening" comes "American Idiot." Adapted from the 2004 Grammy-winning rock album by Green Day, this tale of three slackers from small-town USA has been given a visually robust style, an ear-splitting sound and a rock-concert feel by director Michael Mayer, as well as several elements that recall his admirable staging for "Spring Awakening." But while likely to find an appreciative audience, "Idiot" doesn't approach the impact of that work or its illustrious predecessors."
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USA TODAY REVIEW:
"Anyone who had hoped that Green Day would finally bring punk-rock nihilism to Broadway is about to be sorely disappointed."
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW:
"Drugs, rebellion, and bohemian dishabille are hardly new to Broadway — Hair, Rent, and Spring Awakening all got there first, by a Tony mile. But American Idiot has something its taboo-baiting predecessors didn’t: an already-smash soundtrack courtesy of Green Day, the Bay Area band largely responsible for taking punk rock from the snarling, safety-pinned fringes to the multiplatinum mainstream over the past two decades."
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THE BOSTON HERALD REVIEW:
"Back when the Ramones were bombing the Bowery with “Blitzkrieg Bop” and “A Chorus Line” was packing them in uptown, punk and Broadway were irreconcilable."
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