American Idiot Tickets

American Idiot is the energetic musical, based on Green Day’s 2004 concept album of the same name, which follows a group of boyhood friends as they make plans to change their lives. Brought to life with a book by Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day) and Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) the show demands its place alongside Rent and Spring Awakening in the hall-of-fame of angsty rock musicals. Aaron Sidwell (Loserville: The Musical) heads the cast as the disaffected Johnny, who convinces his friends Tunny and Will to move to the city in an attempt to escape the dead-end lives they have been handed. Their plans quickly disintegrate and the friends find themselves in the wake of 9/11, separated by fatherhood, war, and drug abuse. American Idiot fractures into three separate stories of fractured lives in a fractured age and does so with dynamic and angry urgency. The Grammy award-winning score features the best of Green Day, including ‘American Idiot’, ‘Jesus of Suburbia’, ‘Holiday’, and ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’. American Idiot is however the jukebox musical with a message, and Billie Joe Armstrong declares himself as a forceful voice of his generation. The big ideas and big music are all squeezed into the intimate Arts Theatre which means every performance packs the punch of a high octane rock gig. Joining Aaron Sidwell is Alexis Gerred as Tunny, Steve Rushton as Will, and X Factor star Amelia Lily makes her West End debut as Whatsername, a mysterious woman who steals Johnny’s heart and catches his imagination. American Idiot is playing at the Arts Theatre until 22nd November 2015.