Did anyone see American Idiot/ Spring Awakeing? — Page 2

darquegk said: "My reading of AI has always been that it is supposed to appear almost the opposite of dangerous and radical by the end. It's a show about resignation- resignation to the fact that you're not a real punk kid anymore, that life is gonna suck and there's really nothing you can do to improve your life or the world, and resignation that drugs just aren't fun anymore.

It's the anti-Pippin. Pippin discovers that maybe ordinary is wonderful after all. Johnny, Tunny and Will discover that ordinary sucks, but it's all you got. You burn out or you grow up."

I think this is an example of a common tendency to expect musical theatre to tie things up with a bow, whether warranted or not. I agree the show does not aspire to be dangerous or radical. I think it dares to be honest, neither sympathetic nor damning, in limning a time. But beyond that, I don't see where you get your "read" from in what we see and hear at the end. I don't think it passes judgment on the future.

I saw touring productions of both. Loved SA especially the score, although the audience were walking out in droves at intermission in our Midwest theater! AI was too loud and I didn't know Green Day or I could have prepped for it (like listening to their music before going to show!) I always prep for a show but I skipped out on AI!

^ My understanding is the film would shoot in early 2017, for release in .... maybe 2018? Hard to say for sure because no movie like this gets green lit without some major casting coups, and as far as I could tell, no key roles except St Jimmy had been cast. (Each of the Green Day members gets at least a cameo as currently scripted.) There's also the question of working around Michael Mayer's busy schedule; he was to be responsible for screenplay and direction.

I thought the screenplay was pretty dazzling, but also really challenging to pull off on a small-to-medium budget. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this to actually happen, at least until some real casting press releases come out.