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Forget about your coffee this Friday morning - wake up with American Idiot on Good Morning America! On July 16th, the cast of American Idiot will be performing in Central Park for GMA's Summer Concert Series starting at 8:30 a.m. To catch the performance live, audience members are welcome to enter the park starting at 6 a.m.

Forget about your coffee this Friday morning - wake up with American Idiot on Good Morning America! On July 16th, the cast of American Idiot will be performing in Central Park for GMA's Summer Concert Series starting at 8:30 a.m. To catch the performance live, audience members are welcome to enter the park starting at 6 a.m.

According to their Twitter cast members of AMERICAN IDIOT will appear at Housing Works July 7 between 6 and 8pm. Attendees are encouraged to donate clothes to the organization and will have the opportunity to win tickets to the show as well as meet the cast.

Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jeremy Blocker, Managing Director) announced today that Green Day's American Idiot star John Gallagher, Jr, aka Johnny Gallagher (www.myspace.com/johnnygallagher), will headline a benefit concert on Sunday, July 18 at 8:00pm to support Ars Nova's first ever 54/10 Music Marathon (July 13 - 24), a summer concert series featuring two weeks of dynamic, up-and-coming bands that will surprise, shock and rock you.

Actors' Equity Association announced today that Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT has been selected as the recipient of its Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway Award for the 2009-2010 Season. The Diversity Award will be presented at a reception at the Equity headquarters in New York City on Tuesday, June 15, 2010.

The cast of the hit Broadway musical AMERICAN IDIOT performed '21 Guns' live this morning, June 10th, in the 8am (EST) hour, on CBS's 'The Early Show,' which airs weekdays from 7-9am. The appearance featured Tony Award winner John Gallagher Jr., Tony Award Nominee Stark Sands, Michael Esper, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Christina Sajous, and Mary Faber as well as Declan Bennett, Andrew Call, Gerard Canonico, Miguel Cervantes, Brian Charles Johnson, Leslie McDonel, Chase Peacock, Theo Stockman, Ben Thompson, Alysha Umphress, Sean Wing and Libby Winters.

Actors' Equity Association announced today that Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT has been selected as the recipient of its Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway Award for the 2009-2010 Season. The Diversity Award will be presented at a reception at the Equity headquarters in New York City on Tuesday, June 15, 2010.

Final casting is announced for the special one-night-only reading of Stan Richardson's VERITAS to benefit Lambda Legal. Two new cast members - Chase Peacock (Broadway: American Idiot, Papermill: High School Musical) and Chad Hoeppner (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba, Butley) join Matt Doyle (Broadway: Spring Awakening, Bye Bye Birdie), Tate Ellington (Broadway: The Philanthropist; Film: Remember Me), Eric Nelson (Broadway: 13), Mitch Dean (Altar Boyz), Blake Daniel (Broadway: Spring Awakening), Matt Steiner (The Acting Company's Jane Eyre), Wayne Wilcox (Broadway: Coram Boy, TV: Gilmore Girls), and Christian Coulson (Film: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets).

Michael Mayer is this year's recipient of the 2010 Drama Desk Award for Best Direction of a Musical for American Idiot.

Final casting is announced for the special one-night-only reading of Stan Richardson's VERITAS to benefit Lambda Legal. Two new cast members - Chase Peacock (Broadway: American Idiot, Papermill: High School Musical) and Chad Hoeppner (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba, Butley) join Matt Doyle (Broadway: Spring Awakening, Bye Bye Birdie), Tate Ellington (Broadway: The Philanthropist; Film: Remember Me), Eric Nelson (Broadway: 13), Mitch Dean (Altar Boyz), Blake Daniel (Broadway: Spring Awakening), Matt Steiner (The Acting Company's Jane Eyre), Wayne Wilcox (Broadway: Coram Boy, TV: Gilmore Girls), and Christian Coulson (Film: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets).

Stark Sands, one of the stars of American Idiot, currently running at the St. James Theatre on Broadway, recently took the cameras backstage on the Idiot set for a look inside his dressing room. BroadwayWorld brings you the shots below.

Last night, April 29, cast members from AMERICAN IDIOT appeared on Late Night with David Letterman to promote the show's recent opening on April 20, 2010. BroadwayWorld brings you the clip of their performance of 'Holiday' below!

Yesterday, April 27, cast members from AMERICAN IDIOT helped unveil the IDIOT-themed windows at Bloomingdale's on 59th Street. The Nudie denim line sold at the superstore is partnering with the production. The window displays honor the cast and celebrate the show's recent opening on April 20, 2010. BroadwayWorld was there and brings you photos of the afternoon event.

Cast members from AMERICAN IDIOT will help unveil the IDIOT-themed windows at Bloomingdale's on 59th Street on April 27. The windows, which are a blend of AMERICAN IDIOT and Nudie denim will be unveiled at 4:15pm.

Green Day's American Idiot is undoubtedly one of the season's most ambitious projects. The concept: take one of the most successful rock albums of this generation and turn it into a Broadway musical - without adding a stitch (or nearly) of dialogue. The experiment, so far, has been a success, managing to win over theater minds largely unfamiliar with the rock/grunge genre, as well as music fans who, prior to it's opening, had never stepped foot in a Broadway house.

As BroadwayWorld speculated earlier this week (courtesy of BroadwayGirlNYC), Green Day made a surprise appearance at the performance of AMERICAN IDIOT on April 22.

As BroadwayWorld speculated yesterday (courtesy of BroadwayGirlNYC, Green Day made a surprise appearance at the performance of AMERICAN IDIOT last night, April 22.

AMERICAN IDIOT began performances at the St. James Theatre on March 24, 2010 and opened on Broadway on April 20, 2010 to a great set of reviews! Here's a sneak peek at Broadway Beat's openight night coverage of the show!

Broadway scoopster BroadwayGirlNYC has just alerted fans on her Twitter that 'OMG HUGE SCOOP you guys!! Just learned that GREEN DAY will be playing a surprise number at tonight's @AmericanIdiotNY performance!!!!!'

AMERICAN IDIOT began performances at the St. James Theatre on March 24, 2010 and opened on Broadway on April 20, 2010 to a great set of reviews! We've got photos from the show's after party!