{"id":544670,"date":"2010-04-27T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=102565"},"modified":"2010-04-27T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:43:37","slug":"green-day-%e2%80%9camerican-idiot%e2%80%9d-musical-tops-broadway-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544670","title":{"rendered":"Green Day \u201cAmerican Idiot\u201d Musical Tops Broadway Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d have to be a real &#8220;American Idiot&#8221; not to love Green Day. Just ask the legion of fans that are coming out in strong numbers to support the Grammy-winning band&#8217;s big debut on Broadway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/American-Idiot-On-Broadway-500x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"American Idiot On Broadway\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-102566\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-102565\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>American Idiot&#8217;s<\/em> first week on the Great White Way was a smash, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703465204575208442377891922.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_6\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After opening last Tuesday, the musical treatment of the band&#8217;s 2004 album brought in a whopping $777,860 during the week ending Sunday. And that&#8217;s in addition to the $464,946 the show took in the previous week when the show was still in previews.<\/p>\n<p>The musical tells the story of a new generation of American youth who struggle to find meaning of life in a post-Sept. 11 world.<\/p>\n<p>Green Day&#8217;s <em>American Idiot<\/em> is currently playing at the St. James Theatre at 246 West 44th Street in New York City and with shows scheduled through early September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d have to be a real &#8220;American Idiot&#8221; not to love Green Day. Just ask the legion of fans that are coming out in strong numbers to support the Grammy-winning band&#8217;s big debut on Broadway. American Idiot&#8217;s first week on the Great White Way was a smash, according to The Wall Street Journal. After opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}