After months of preparation, Green Day’s American Idiot musical has finally premiered in Broadway’s St. James Theatre. The musical based on this Bay Area band’s Grammy Award-winning rock opera and directed by Tony Award-winning Michael Mayer of Spring Awakening fame has already blown audiences away.

The first rock opera to hit the Broadway stage with such gusto, the story takes a hit on politics, sex, drugs and stereotypes as it follows Johnny, a young man who tries to find himself in a post 9/11 suburban world of “media-saturation, fear and cynicism,” writes Playbill.com. The musical features tracks from the title album and Green Day’s latest set, 21st Century Breakdown, as well as a few b-sides. If you haven’t jumped at the chance to see this Broadway special, act now to get Green Day tickets online to catch the rockers during their summer tour.

Following American Idiot’s premier at the Berkeley Repertory Theater last fall, a run that was extended several times, there was no doubt that the show would move to New York. While Green Day members Bille Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt don’t have any role on stage, the group helped inspire the musical beyond just its music. Director Mayer first approached Green Day about creating a play several months ago, a feat that the award winning trio couldn’t wait to get started on.

Though the musical has only come to fruition within the past year, it has actually been since 2003 that the boys have considered taking American Idiot’s singles to the stage. Like every other Green Day album, American Idiot’s tracks were self-penned by the rockers themselves in which they created a controversial world out of their own personal demons. “The thought was Tadalis SX always sort of 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 Cialis or something,” Armstrong said during a press event in March about bringing American Idiot beyond an album.

Though it’s been no secret that Green Day has always wanted to approach some new sort of creative outlet, few would have believed such steps would have come quite so easily. With the help of Armstrong, the album took on a new life as Armstrong and Mayer penned the book together with producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman on board. Inspired by everything from West Side Story to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, admits Armstrong, the group found an audience in die-hard rock fans and critics upon American Idiot’s 2004 release.

The rock opera was a huge success that year, spawning hits in its title track, “Jesus of Suburbia,” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Holiday” and “Wake Me up When September Ends.” Now as these singles find an international audience, the trio of rebellious men who named their group after marijuana 20 years ago couldn’t be more shell-shocked. “All of us actually came to tears [during the first “American Idiot” rehearsals],” said Dirnt to MTV, “because you don’t get to see Green Day play live if you’re actually in Green Day.”

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