Twenty-First Century Breakdown, by Scott Brown
Remember the Bush years? No? Then you, my friend, are the target audience for <cite>American Idiot</cite>, Michael Mayer's dizzyingly miscalculated adaptation of the excellent 2004 concept album by the pop-punk band Green Day. But this musical--a half-exploitative, half-lobotomized attempt to fake a youthgasm--has none of the power of that album. It's a self-described "rock opera" set in a self-created "Recent Past,"…