MICHAEL MAYER
Michael Mayer (born June 27, 1960) is an American theatre director, film director, television director, and playwright. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2007 for directing Spring Awakening. (More from Wikipedia)
But nothing prepared me for Green Day’s rock opera to become a hit Broadway show called American Idiot; the musical ran for a full year beginning in April 2010 and since then has had regular performances worldwide. The musical American Idiot featured all of the songs from the original American Idiot album, plus several from their second rock opera, 21st Century Breakdown (2009) and one previously unreleased song, “When it’s Time”. Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the book for the musical with director Michael Mayer; while Green Day never performed during the show, Armstrong occasionally played the role of “St. Jimmy” during the Broadway run.
(June 2017)
