On Green Day's Vivid, Lurid, Somewhat Vapid <cite>American Idiot</cite> Musical, by Rob Harvilla
This show is not a terrible idea. Green Day's original 2004 American Idiot is pretty much mainstream rock's one and only credible album-length riposte to The (Fucking) Bush Years, not so much blatantly political as just generally bewildered and enraged in a way that still put the Berkeley boys light years ahead of the shock-and-awe curve, plainly re-energized by having something to sing about other than jerking off i…