Punks Take Broadway

摘要

Billie joe armstrong, the lead sing-rner and lyricist for the punk-rock band Green Day, claims he was a big fan of show tunes while growing up near Oakland, Calif., even singing standards with a group of friends for hospital patients in the area. That might reassure Broadway traditionalists, who could be in for a shock at American Idiot, the thunderous new rock musical based on Green Day's Grammy-winning 2004 album. Rock purists, on the other hand, may see it as a sign that the California punk trio is getting soft. Nobody ever said rock and Broadway were an easy match.