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Green Day has come a long way since the band’s days as semi-subversive ’90s rockers whose CDs your parents hesitated buying. Nowadays Billie Joe Armstrong and company have hit it big time on Broadway with a rock opera version of their 2004 record American Idiot.
With an anti-drug and anti-consumer message, it seems like the opposite of what a major label rock band would get behind. But the musical’s anthemic soundtrack and coming-of-age theme give it enough street cred to reel in longtime fans of the band.
April 24-28, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., April 28, 2 p.m.; Sun., April 29, 1 & 6:30 p.m., 2012
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