Green Day's "American Idiot," the Musical

3/30/2009
Shaina Wizov
Pop-punk band Green Day is jumping on the dancing-and-singing-filled bandwagon and turning their multiplatinum album, "American Idiot," into a musical.

The band, under the creative drive of front man Billie Joe Armstrong, has partnered with Tony award-winning director Michael Mayer (2007's "Spring Awakening") to put the Grammy-award winning album, "American Idiot," on stage, according to E! Online.

The musical version of "American Idiot" will focus on the life of the album's antihero, Jesus of Suburbia. The album will appear in the show in its entirety, including the singles "Jesus of Suburbia" and "Wake Me Up (When September Ends)."

Songs from the band's upcoming album, "21st Century Breakdown," will also be featured.

New York Daily News reports that when "American Idiot" was released in 2004, it was compared to the rock opera, the Who's "Tommy," which made its way to Broadway in 1993.

The musical will run from Sept. 4 to Oct. 11 in the band's hometown of Berkley, Calif., at the Berkeley Repertory Theater.

Is "American Idiot" Broadway-bound? We'll have to wait and see.

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