“This was the highest moment I think we’ve ever had as a band in the 21 years we’ve been around,” Billie Joe Armstrong said of the opening night of American Idiot, the musical based on Green Day’s album of the same name. And high he should be, and no, we aren’t just saying that because the musical opened on 4/20, but because it’s gotten raves from the likes of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times . Who’d have thought that Broadway was ready for punk? Flip through our gallery to see Green Day arriving to rock opera’s big opening night, as well as joining the cast of American Idiot for their curtain call. Excuse us, we have to find someone to promise our first born child to in exchange for first row, center tickets. More »
