Green Day's Broadway Idiot headed to theatres

24 August 2013 | 9:25 am | Staff Writer
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Green Day's 'Broadway Idiot,' a documentary about a play based on an album, is set to screen in select theaters later this year.

Green Day's 'Broadway Idiot,' a documentary about a play based on an album, is set to screen in select theaters later this year.


Green Day's 'American Idiot,' the album, was first released in 2004, then later adapted into a musical by the same time, which premiered in 2009 and opened on Broadway in 2010, before hitting the road as a tour in 2011.


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Broadway Idiot, which was first announced back in January and premiered at South By Southwest in March, follows Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who appeared in some Broadway performances of the show, in his journey to adapt the album into a musical.