Producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman announced the complete Broadway cast of AMERICAN IDIOT today. The production will begin previews on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 and open on Broadway Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at the ST. James Theatre (246 West 44 Street).
Tony Award winner John Gallagher Jr. (Spring Awakening) is set to star in AMERICAN IDIOT alongside Tony Award Nominee Stark Sands (Journey's End), Michael Esper (A Man For All Seasons), Rebecca Naomi Jones (Passing Strange), Christina Sajous (The Wild Party), Mary Faber (Avenue Q) and Tony Vincent (Jesus Christ Superstar). The cast also features Declan Bennett (RENT), Andrew Call (Cry-Baby), Gerard Canonico (Spring Awakening), Miguel Cervantes (...Spelling Bee), Joshua Henry (In The Heights), Van Hughes (Hairspray), Brian CharLes Johnson (Spring Awakening), Joshua Kobak (RENT), Lorin Latarro (Movin' Out), Omar Lopez-Cepero (North American tour of Evita), Leslie McDonel (Hairspray), Chase Peacock (High School Musical), Theo Stockman (Hair), Ben Thompson (Cyrano with Placido Domingo), Alysha Umphress (bare), Aspen Vincent (Dirty Dancing) and Libby Winters (White Noise).
"This wildly gifted company takes my breath away. They bring such depth and passion to the material. It is a rare honor to be blessed with such spectacularly imaginative performers," says Michael Mayer.
The Broadway cast of AMERICAN IDIOT will perform with Green Day on the band's two-time GRAMMY nominated song "21 Guns" on Music's Biggest Night®. The 52ND Annual Grammy® Awards will take place live on Sunday, January 31, 2010, at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast on the CBS Television Network from 8-11:30pm (ET/PT). On December 22, 2009, Reprise Records released a new version of the hit single "21 Guns," produced by Billie Joe Armstrong and performed by the cast of AMERICAN IDIOT and Green Day.
