American Idiot
9 / 10
Rage courses through the Green Day-scored American Idiot and fittingly, this andrenalized gut-punch of a musical is bound to piss you off. Whether you’re a Broadway nostalgist longing for middle-of-the-road kitsch, or a sullen teen who vicariously thrills to the show’s grimacing, bird-flipping punks, your heart will pound, your pupils will dilate, you will sweat and breathe hard. Such a state is intense but not permanent: Anger is just a drug, after all. But for the 90 minutes that American Idiot has you in its white-knuckle grasp, it will electrify and overwhelm your senses. Here’s a musical to thrash to. Goodbye, orchestra pit; hello, mosh pit.
