American Idiot coming to BU

American Idiot, The National Broadway Tour will come to Bloomsburg University on Friday, March 7, at 8 p.m. Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts. Tickets are $45 for adults, $22 child/BU student. The show is part of Bloomsburg's Celebrity Artist Series.

Green Day’s multi-platinum album “American Idiot,” exploded on the punk rock music scene in 2004 selling over 12 million copies to become one of the best-selling albums of all time and winning the Grammy for Rock Album of the Year.

In 2010 one of Broadway’s most accomplished creative teams, led by Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), two-time Tony Award-winning composer and orchestrator Tom Kitt (Next to Normal) and Olivier Award-winning choreographer Steven Hoggett (Black Watch), brought the rock opera to the Broadway stage in this tale of three lifelong friends: one who will fight for his dreams, one who will fight for his country and one who will stay behind frozen in the safety of suburbia. The show has been described as “FLAT OUT ELECTRIFYING” by the Boston Globe and “UNBRIDLED ROCK ENERGY” by the San Francisco Chronicle. American Idiot Contains Adult Content and Strong Language Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong never thought he would end up producing a Broadway musical. It is a long way from mosh pits and singing to thousands of punk rock fans in stadiums around the world. So when Tony Award winning director, Michael Mayer, suggested turning Green Day’s multi-platinum selling album, “American Idiot,” into a staged musical, something magical was bound to happen.

 American Idiot Contains Adult Content and Strong Language

See a making of American Idiot movie

In support of the March 7 presentation of American Idiot as part of the next Celebrity Artist Series, a documentary — the making of Broadway’s American Idiot — will be shown at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, at 7 pm,  in the newly renovated Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. The film, which is open free to the public, chronicles the momentous collaboration between rock and roll icons, Green Day and the “Great White Way” to turn the mega hit, Platinum selling album, American Idiot into a staged Broadway musical.