I am a gay man trapped in a straight woman's body. I love Broadway musicals. Mamma Mia and Phantom of the Opera blew me away and kept me humming Abba and the dreadful Phantom organ solo for days. I haven't been to see another musical in a few years so I was excited when a friend invited me to see one. I decided on American Idiot, a play based on the music of Green Day.
I didn't like it. I used to be as punk as these kids but I could barely hide my impatience throughout the show. The actors had their eyes half-closed in mock high on sex, drugs and rock and roll. The story was a mess, the choreography was repetitive. Anybody can act like they're all over the place. I was yawning too much for something that I should be enjoying. When the audience started giving them a standing ovation, I was thinking, "Really? A standing ovation for this hot mess?"
Then again, maybe what I'm impatient about are these spoiled American brats wasting their life away when a lot of Third World kids are either dying of hunger for food or education. I'm getting old but the punk in me is not dead yet.
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