Just got back from seeing American Idiot on Broadway. It’s complex, it’s loud, it’s raucous, it’s insanely well produced, and it’s a must-see. My first thought was that it was a Green Day version of Movin’ Out, but it’s really a Millenial generation version of Rent. If Rent took La Boheme out of the Metropolitan Opera House and into Alphabet City, then American Idiot takes Rent from bohemian culture and plops it on the other side of the slightly damaged picket fence across the street from you.
If you’re a Millenial, go see it with your parents; if you’re a parent of a Millenial, take your kids, because it’s the best explanation of this decade’s interpretation of teenage anxiety, anger and expectations. And it thoroughly rocks.
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