Due to huge demand, AMERICAN IDIOT announces an extra week at London HMV Hammersmith Apollo
DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND
Green Day’s Acclaimed Broadway Musical
Announces An Extra Week in London
Due to overwhelming public demand, Green Day’s explosive, award-winning Broadway rock musical AMERICAN IDIOT, has announced a second week of performances in London at the legendary HMV Hammersmith Apollo, from Tuesday December 11 - Sunday December 15.
Tickets will go on sale 9.00am Friday 27th January
The story of three boyhood friends, each searching for meaning in a post
9-11 world, AMERICAN IDIOT 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”). Its hit songs include “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 are several songs from Green Day’s 2009 release “21st Century Breakdown,” and an unreleased love song, “When It’s Time.”
The acclaimed creative team includes choreography by British Olivier Award-winner Steven Hoggett (“Black Watch”), and music supervision, 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.
Winner of two Tony Awards® and the 2010 Grammy Award winner for Best Musical Show Album, AMERICAN IDIOT premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in September 2009. In April 2010, the musical opened on Broadway where reviews were unanimously positive and it ran for over a year.
AMERICAN IDIOT, will get its premiere in the UK in 2012 with a major national tour featuring a thrilling American tour cast, at Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre (October 8 - 13) then tour to Cardiff’s Millennium Centre (October 15 - 20); Edinburgh Playhouse (October 22 - 27); Glasgow Clyde Auditorium (October 29 - November 3); Dublin Grand Canal Theatre (November 5 - 10); Manchester Palace Theatre (November 12 - 24); Birmingham Alexandra Theatre (November 26 - December 1); and then open at HMV Hammersmith Apollo on December 3.
The UK tour is produced by SJM Concerts and Flying Entertainment by arrangement with Work Light Productions.
For more information on AMERICAN IDIOT visit http://americanidiotthemusical.com
December 3 - 15
London
HMV Hammersmith Apollo
45 Queen Caroline Street
Hammersmith
London W6 9QH
Box office: 0843 221 0100
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