Green Day Musical

03/31/2009
. (Billboard) Green Day's "American Idiot" is headed from disc to stage. Michael Mayer, the Tony Award-winning director of "Spring Awakening," is adapting the trio's 2004 concept album for the Berkeley Repertory Theatre on Green Day's home turf in California.

The production will run Sept. 4-Oct. 11 to open the company's 2009-10 season, with tickets now on sale for early performances at www.berkeleyrep.org.

Mayer and Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong collaborated on the script for "American Idiot," which follows the working class subjects of the album's songs - more on this story

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