So I haven't posted since I had my wonderful trip to New York City with the beautiful Emily Chapman. So I figured my post should be somewhat related to that. We saw 4 shows on Broadway while in the city and I am going to talk about the one that was probably my favorite (although it is extremely hard to pick, they were all wonderful) which is American Idiot. In all honesty I don't think I had listened to a Green Day song before in my life, I mean I had heard some on the radio but thats about it. So I didn't go for the music, I went because I wanted to see John Gallagher Jr. He was in the original Broadway cast of Spring Awakening (another one of my favorite musicals) and I have been in love with him ever since I heard him sing in that. He plays the lead in American Idiot. So we ended up going to see it the first night I was in the city. To say the least I loved it! The music is AMAZING! Who knew I loved Green Day? I bought the soundtrack and have been listening to it nonstop. So many of the songs are simple, but have the most powerful lyrics. And they are just beautiful! And some others are great to dance around in your underwear to. Also the set was so cool. There were tons of TVs of all different sizes put into the wall and then the rest of the wall was covered in this huge newspaper collage. They used the TVs a lot to add to the show and then the lighting was awesome. Then I absolutely loved the choreography!!! It was so modern and punk, but was perfect and fun. I will say it didn't have the strongest book in the world, but everything else totally made up for that. Oh and of course my future husband, John Gallagher Jr, was unbelievable!! I'm just so glad I got to see him perform live. All the other actors were awesome too, an extremely strong cast to say the least. I would have gone and seen that show every night I was in the city, but I didn't think Em would go for that :) But I do hope I get to see it again someday and I will keep enjoying the music for a very long time.
Also I'm putting up some videos I found that MTV did about American Idiot. I love how involved the band was in the making of the show. And how happy they are that people wanted to make a show out of their music. These videos made me love this show even more!
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