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[img=042711_musical.jpg] "This is not a party, it's a celebration," Billie Joe yelled to a theater filled with Green Day and Broadway fans on Sunday April 24, 2011. Easter Sunday no less. The American Idiot musical had been running at the St. James theater in New York City for just over a year. At it's start there was skepticism about whether a punk rock musical had staying power - and amongst fans, skepticism about how Green Day's music could be turned into a stage production without becoming a giant cheese ball.

Walking around the St. James on closing night only highlighted the clash of cultures. Punk kids with pink, purple and bleached hair wearing an array of pins or clothes you could swear they'd been wearing the previous 5 days and every Green Day shirt out there - and celebrities, theater "folk", and people dressed nice enough to visit with the President of the United States (sorry other presidents, only ours gets the attention of the fashion savvy). I can't think of many bands right now who could possibly weave these two cultures together and create something each could equally enjoy.

This was my first time seeing Billie Joe play the part of St. Jimmy, the maniacal bad side in all of us wanting to get out and burn the world around him. I had seen the musical a year before, opening night, with the original cast which included Tony Vincent playing "St. Jimmy", John Gallagher Jr. as "Johnny", Michael Esper as"Will" and Stark Sands as "Tunny". The story revolves around three friends who plan to leave their hometown, but when the other two get sidetracked by life, Johnny ends up alone in the city with only his demons to entertain. St.Jimmy comes in, showing him the fun fast life of drugs and alcohol then proceeds to watch Johnny destroy himself.

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[img=gdatreanddena.jpg]Congratulations to Tre Cool and Dena on their engagement! Click the picture for a bigger view. Rumors were swirling all weekend about Tre's engagement during the last American Idiot Musical show. Tre officially ... read story
[url=http://fuse.tv/music/polls/battle-of-the-fans-rockers/poll-14.html?poll621=vote&scrollTo=poll621&ml=0][img=042611_fuse.jpg][/url] Fuse has a competition going on called "Battle of the Fans", where Green Day is currently up again 'Alter ... read story
[img=042611_aaf.png]Amazon is offering up a free mp3 download of "Wake Me Up When September Ends" from Green Day's latest release, Awesome As Fuck. But the offer is only good until midnight tonight so if you don't already have the track ... read story
[img=042511_billiestjames.jpg]After an incredible final performance on Broadway last night, Green Day took to the stage along with the cast, Michael Mayer and Tom Hulce, who confirmed that the musical will be going on tour, starting in ... read story
[img=030711_musical_theater.jpg] Tonight is the final show for the American Idiot musical, which opened just over a year ago this month. Some of the GDA team have gathered in New York to watch the final performance and the end of Billie Joe ... read story
[img=042311_treradio.jpg]Earlier this week we posted about Tre being interviewed on San Francisco radio station 107.7 The Bone. If you missed the interview you can now listen to it online from the 107.7 The Bone podcast. The interview ... read story
[turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/downloads/][img=042211_downloads.jpg][/turl]We here at GDA are proud to unveil our newest addition to the site called [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/downloads/]"Featured Download"[/turl]. This ... read story
As we [url=http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/2302/]posted[/url] earlier in the week, Green Day's performance at Lollapalooza is currently being aired on Palladia. For those of you who do not get Palladia or you missed the program you ... read story
[img=042011_green-day-lolla-6.jpg] Green Day is once again a contender in a bracket battle with other bands titled "Battle of the Fans". Similar to MTV'S March Madness (which Green Day won), the round pits GD against Alter Bridge. At time ... read story
The big news a week ago was that [url=http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/2289/]American Idiot is finally going to be made into a movie[/url]. But, now we'd like to see how many fans would like to see the movie based off the musical, ... read story
[url=http://store.adelinerecords.net/products/green-day-aaf-bundle][img=030811_aaf-bundle.png][/url] This is the last week to pre-order the [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/2268/]Awesome As Fuck vinyl[/turl] from Adeline Records ... read story
[img=042011_treradio.jpg]Today, at 9:15am PDT (12:15 EDT) San Francisco radio station, 107.7 The Bone will be interviewing Tre Cool for their morning program with Lamont and Tonelli. We are not really sure what they will be talking to ... read story
Barely news worthy, but that's never stopped us before! Here's a little clip of Billie Joe singing a couple lines from "Hold On" (off Warning) before going into "Good Riddance". [audio=time_of_your_life_4_16_11] You can download the ... read story
[img=041911_seize.jpg]A couple days ago Courtney [url=http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/2295/]introduced you guys[/url] to the new book by our friend Niki Lee, Seize the Green Day. A story about her becoming a Green Day fan at 45 and ... read story
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