How Long For American Idiot?- Page 2

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/12/11 at 3:10pm

It did not become a "Green Day Concert" when he came in. There was acting, staging and choreography, not a single "get to a microphone, park and bark out the song" moment. If your complaint is about his frequent solo sets at the encore, so what? You already saw the show, and now an award-winning world-famous musician is also gracing you with a mini concert AFTERWARDS, and you're complaining? Get a grip.

He obviously had fun doing the show, since he has continued to be involved with it even though he obviously is rich enough to not have to. Besides, his musical theatre pretensions have always been evident, given that as soon as he wrote the album he tried to sell it as a movie musical to MTV, even before Legally Blonde did just that. I mean, god forbid more mainstream people become interested in writing for musical theatre, right?

[wcoyote]

Posted: 3/12/11 at 3:34pm

Interesting response. If it didn't become a concert (or in most tickets buyers estimation) than how do you explain the enormous drop off in ticket sales after each of Amstrongs departures? The last being nearly 1 million in gross! Could it be the show didn't have legs without a Green Day member in the cast? And if so, what does that say about the show as legit theater?

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 3/12/11 at 3:46pm

Could it be the show didn't have legs without a Green Day member in the cast? And if so, what does that say about the show as legit theater?

It says that the show needs celebrities or stunt casting. The grosses for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC had humongous drops whenever Catherine Zeta-Jones or Angela Lansbury were out. Are you implying that when they were in it, it was not a musical at all, but just a Hollywood red carpet flooded with paparazzi?

Saying the show can't sell enough tickets without a celebrity is fine, and probably (mostly) accurate, but you said that show became nothing but a Green Day concert just because he was in it, and that's just stupid and offensive to the entire cast.

[wcoyote]

Posted: 3/12/11 at 4:00pm

Idiot tried a celebrity replacement-Didn't exactly light up the box office. If the show could only maintain any type of financial success with a Green Day member then by default it had become a Green Day event (I won't use "concert" since that seems to offend you)

I will agree with you regarding "Little Night Music". For one it was a terrible revival and absolutely needed stunt casting ( sorry - celebrity casting)