Emma Berry

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I was sorry that American Idiot did not win the prize for the best original musical at the Tony Awards last night.  In my opinion, American Idiot is the “HAIR”/ “West Side Story”  for the 21st century. American Idiot is an adaptation of the rock band Green Day’s concept album of the same name. Michael Mayer directs the punk rock musical.  At least during last night’s Tony Awards the title song of the musical was played.

Excerpt from the lyrics:

“Don’t want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It’s calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.”

American Idiot officially opened on Broadway April 20, 2010.  Essentially it is the story of some young people who escape to the city from stifling suburbia, but the city turns out to be just a larger version of what they left behind.  They discover that there are no easy paths to fulfillment, but the largest, most insurmountable problem they face is that they do not know how to believe in themselves.

Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude in C Major