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Best rock opera2/22/2023 Album released:Īfter a run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California in 2009, American Idiot had a year-long Broadway run from April 2010, followed by several US tours. Other albums include Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning. Green Day, the American punk rock band founded in 1986 and led by vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt. The London cast of American Idiot at the West End’s Arts Theatre. Here are a few more pass-note items for you to compare like with like. (In both cases, do NOT leave before the end of the onstage bands’ playouts – the curtain call numbers, both guitar led, and the musicians jamming are evening highlights.) It was certainly incentive enough for me to see the two shows over successive weeks and I’m glad I did: I’m a little squeamish and not a particular fan of heavy rock music, so American Idiot and Tommy were both difficult watches and challenging listens for me, but they each yielded their rewards by the end. The fact that Green Day credited the work of The Who, and Tommy in particular, with providing the inspiration for their 21st-century album is added incentive. It’s a happy coincidence that these two “rock operas” based on groundbreaking “concept albums” are both enjoying limited London seasons this summer – and, for anyone interested in the development of this fascinating crossover sub-genre, it’s an unmissable opportunity to experience both. That is, for the next few weeks in any case. Ashley Birchall in Tommy vs Aaron Sidwell in American Idiot: both onstage in London in August 2015īirth-wise, more than three decades separate The Who’s Tommy and Green Day’s American Idiot, but location-wise, the distance is only three short train stops, from London’s Charing Cross to Greenwich.
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