Not even a bomb scare in Times Square can put a damper on the close of the Broadway season. Nominations for the Tony Awards will be announced tomorrow morning and look for the awards to recognize some -- though not all -- of the celeb-filled shows that have dominated the Great White Way's box office this year. Sorry, Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig. You may have sold out your limited run in the cop drama A Steady Rain last fall, but we can't picture you in the Tony nominee lineup this year. However, you can expect director Kenny Leon's...
- 5/3/2010
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
'The night was electric,' actor Tony Vincent says at afterparty.
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rya Backer
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Tre Cool at the "American Idiot" afterparty
Photo: MTV News
With opening night of the "American Idiot" musical officially in the books, the guys in Green Day can officially focus on something else that's important: enjoying their natural high.
"This is the highest moment I think we've ever had as a band, in the 21 years we've been around," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told MTV News at the "Idiot" afterparty, held at New York's Roseland Ballroom on Tuesday night.
"And we've been pretty high," drummer Tre Cool interjected.
That feeling of euphoria extended to the cast of "Idiot," too. After all, they've been working on the production for close to two years now, shepherding it through rehearsals, a run at the Berkeley Repertory Theater last year and,...
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rya Backer
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Tre Cool at the "American Idiot" afterparty
Photo: MTV News
With opening night of the "American Idiot" musical officially in the books, the guys in Green Day can officially focus on something else that's important: enjoying their natural high.
"This is the highest moment I think we've ever had as a band, in the 21 years we've been around," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told MTV News at the "Idiot" afterparty, held at New York's Roseland Ballroom on Tuesday night.
"And we've been pretty high," drummer Tre Cool interjected.
That feeling of euphoria extended to the cast of "Idiot," too. After all, they've been working on the production for close to two years now, shepherding it through rehearsals, a run at the Berkeley Repertory Theater last year and,...
- 4/21/2010
- MTV Music News
MTV gives you a peek at rehearsal footage and interviews with the cast.
By James Montgomery
Green Day at "American Idiot" on Broadway
Photo: Bryan Bedder/ Getty Images
The Broadway version of Green Day's "American Idiot" doesn't officially open until April 20, but Friday night (April 16), MTV gave fans an exclusive look into the making of the punk-rock opera when it aired "Green Day Rocks Broadway: American Idiot."
The show detailed the long journey from the recording of the Idiot album in 2003 to rehearsals at New York's St. James Theatre and, at every step of the way, the pressure to deliver the goods was off the charts.
"Right around 2003, I think, as a band, we wanted to have a monumental moment. We wanted to make a concept album, we knew that," Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong explained. "Politically, when we were writing it, American Idiot was trying to make...
By James Montgomery
Green Day at "American Idiot" on Broadway
Photo: Bryan Bedder/ Getty Images
The Broadway version of Green Day's "American Idiot" doesn't officially open until April 20, but Friday night (April 16), MTV gave fans an exclusive look into the making of the punk-rock opera when it aired "Green Day Rocks Broadway: American Idiot."
The show detailed the long journey from the recording of the Idiot album in 2003 to rehearsals at New York's St. James Theatre and, at every step of the way, the pressure to deliver the goods was off the charts.
"Right around 2003, I think, as a band, we wanted to have a monumental moment. We wanted to make a concept album, we knew that," Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong explained. "Politically, when we were writing it, American Idiot was trying to make...
- 4/16/2010
- MTV Music News
John Gallagher Jr. (as Johnny, the Jesus of Suburbia) and Tony Vincent (as St. Jimmy) with the cast of the Green Day musical American Idiot. Photograph by Alessandra Mello. It’s amazing how long it takes us to change our view of something once it’s ingrained. Most people still think of New York City as dangerous, Starbucks coffee as bitter, Robin Williams as funny, and Broadway music as the exclusive domain of such songsmiths as Rodgers and Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber. That last one may change for good starting next week, when the musical American Idiot, based on Green Day’s 2004 punk-pop album of the same name, opens at the St. James Theater. The prevailing opinion was summed up fairly well by Bill Maher, who, when he interviewed Green Day’s front man, Billie Joe Armstrong, on his show last week, said, “[when I think] musical I think of Ethel Merman,...
- 4/15/2010
- Vanity Fair
The musical adaptation gives Green Day's songs a massive, dramatic sound.
By James Montgomery
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong performs with the cast of "American Idiot" at the 2010 Grammy Awards
Photo: Michael Caulfield/ WireImage
Did you ever listen to Green Day's American Idiot and think to yourself, "I wish this could sound bigger"?
Well, you're in luck. Because streaming right now on MTV's The Leak, is American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording, and it's pretty massive. The album — featuring the musical's stars John Gallagher Jr., Michael Esper, Stark Sands, Tony Vincent, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Mary Faber and Christina Sajous singing music orchestrated by Tom Kitt — comes out on April 20.
Loaded with full choirs, classically trained vocalists singing for the rafters and guitars, bass and drums that sound like they've been retrofitted with rocket boosters for the band's trip to the Great White Way, this version...
By James Montgomery
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong performs with the cast of "American Idiot" at the 2010 Grammy Awards
Photo: Michael Caulfield/ WireImage
Did you ever listen to Green Day's American Idiot and think to yourself, "I wish this could sound bigger"?
Well, you're in luck. Because streaming right now on MTV's The Leak, is American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording, and it's pretty massive. The album — featuring the musical's stars John Gallagher Jr., Michael Esper, Stark Sands, Tony Vincent, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Mary Faber and Christina Sajous singing music orchestrated by Tom Kitt — comes out on April 20.
Loaded with full choirs, classically trained vocalists singing for the rafters and guitars, bass and drums that sound like they've been retrofitted with rocket boosters for the band's trip to the Great White Way, this version...
- 4/13/2010
- MTV Music News
The legendary Lion of Wall Street, Jack Dreyfus, didn't just gamble on the stock market. The Dreyfus Fund founder also loved to wager on his tennis games with legendary racquet-eer Bobby Riggs. Dreyfus, who died on March 10 at age 95, used to play tennis many afternoons during the week with ranked player Tony Vincent and with Riggs, who lost a nationally televised 1973 match to Billie Jean King. "It was at Lenny Hartman's indoor court at the late Schwartz Chemical Co. in Long Island City," venerable publicist (and tennis player) Sy Presten recalls.
- 4/11/2009
- NYPost.com
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