Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that individual tickets for the national tour of the explosive Broadway hit AMERICAN IDIOT called “wonderfully raucous” and “emotionally charged” by The New York Times and “flat-out electrifying” by the Boston Globe, will go on-sale to the public Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 at 10 a.m. AMERICAN IDIOT will play the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 West Randolph Street) for one week only, April 16 – 21, 2013.
AMERICAN IDIOT, a 2010 Tony Award®-nominated
Best Musical and 2010 Grammy Award winner for Best Musical Show Album, features
the music of Green Day with the
lyrics of its lead singer Billie Joe
Armstrong. The book is by Armstrong and Michael Mayer and direction is by Tony Award®-winner Mayer (“Spring
Awakening”).
The acclaimed creative team also includes choreography
by Olivier Award-winner Steven Hoggett (“Black
Watch”) and orchestrations and arrangements by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Kitt (“Next to Normal”). The Tony Award®-winning
scenic design by Christine Jones
and the Tony Award®-winning lighting design by Kevin Adams will also be featured in the
tour.
Alex Nee will star as Johnny along with Trent Saunders as St. Jimmy, Casey O’Farrell as Will, Thomas Hettrick as Tunny, Alyssa DiPalma as Whatsername, Jenna Rubaii as The Extraordinary Girl and Kennedy Caughell as Heather.
AMERICAN IDIOT will also feature Aurie Ceylon, Carson Higgins, Antwaun
Holley, Daniel C. Jackson,
Brandon Kalm, John Krause, Alison Morooney, Turner
Rouse, Jr., Jamal Shuriah,
Dustin Harris Smith, Ashley Tobias, Chelsea Turbin, and Jared
Young.
“I am thrilled that we get to continue sharing AMERICAN IDIOT with audiences across North America,” said director Michael Mayer.
“The creative team and I couldn’t be happier with the stellar group
of actors we’ve assembled. All of them are talented new additions to the AMERICAN IDIOT family.”
Winner of two Tony Awards®, AMERICAN IDIOT is the story of three
boyhood friends, each searching for meaning in a post 9-11 world. Through
incredible spectacle, thrilling performances and with the hope embodied by a
new generation, AMERICAN IDIOT has
given audiences the time of their lives night after night since its Broadway
run at the St. James Theatre (March 2010 – April 2011) and its subsequent
national tour, which launched December 2011 in Toronto.
“Since its inception, audiences have been
surprised by the emotional journey the show takes them on, told almost
exclusively through Green Day’s songs, including many they are already
familiar with and love,” said Tom Hulce, producer. “This is such a
potent time for our country and the search of our characters for what to
believe in is gorgeously celebrated through Billie Joe and Green Day’s
wonderfully lush score,” he added.
The musical features the hits “Boulevard of
Broken Dreams,” “21 Guns,” “Wake Me Up When September
Ends,” “Holiday” and the blockbuster title track
“American Idiot” from Green Day’s 2004 Grammy Award-winning,
multi-platinum album. Also included in the score are several songs from Green
Day’s 2009 release “21st Century Breakdown,” and
an unreleased love song, “When It’s Time.”
AMERICAN IDIOT premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre
in September 2009 and played through November of that year. In April 2010, the
musical opened on Broadway where reviews were unanimously positive with Charles
Isherwood of the New York Times calling the show “the most adventurous
musical to brave Broadway in the past decade” and the Toronto Star naming
it “the first great musical of the 21st century!”
PERFORMANCE
SCHEDULE
The performance
schedule for AMERICAN
IDIOT is
as follows:
Tuesday,
April 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday,
April 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday,
April 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday,
April 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday,
April 20 at 2 & 8 p.m.
Sunday,
April 21 at 2 & 7:30 p.m.
Please note: Ticket prices and performance schedule are
subject to change.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets
for AMERICAN IDIOT at the Cadillac
Palace Theatre range from $18-$85. A select number of premium seats are
also available for many performances. Tickets are available now for groups of
10 or more by calling Broadway In Chicago
Group Sales at (312) 977-1710. Tickets are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St.,
151 W. Randolph St., 18 W. Monroe St. and 175 E. Chestnut), the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Kiosk at Water Tower
Place (845 N. Michigan Ave.), the Broadway In Chicago
Ticket Line at (800) 775-2000, all Ticketmaster retail locations and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com.
For
more information, visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com or www.americanidiotthemusical.com.
I saw that show when it was in Raleigh!
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