"I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."

-Oscar Wilde

 

Street Lamp Community Theatre is excited to bring American Idiot back to the black box for our 10 year anniversary!

  • Auditions coming this May! More info to come! Show will be directed by Matthew Peterson!


  • The two-time Tony Award-winning hit musical Green Day's American Idiot, based on the Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum album, boldly takes the American musical where it's never gone before. This high-octane show includes every song from Green Day's album, American Idiot, as well as several songs from its follow-up release, 21st Century Breakdown.

    Johnny, Tunny and Will struggle to find meaning in a post-9/11 world. When the three disgruntled men flee the constraints of their hometown for the thrills of city life, their paths are quickly estranged when Tunny enters the armed forces, Will is called back home to attend to familial responsibilities, and Johnny's attention becomes divided by a seductive love interest and a hazardous new friendship. An energy-fueled rock opera, American Idiot, features little dialogue and instead relies on the lyrics from Green Day's groundbreaking album to execute the story line.

    Rights provided by Musical Theatre International.

  • Character Breakdown

    Johnny

    The self-proclaimed "Jesus of Suburbia." Bored of his do-nothing, go-nowhere existence, he takes off for the city to get a new lease on life. He wages an inner war between a budding love for Whatsername and growing dependency on St. Jimmy and drugs.

    Gender: male

    Age: 20 to 30

    Vocal range top: B4

    Vocal range bottom: B2

    Tunny

    Johnny's friend who follows him to the city and eventually enlists in the army. He travels to the Middle East. A dreamer who is easily swayed, first by Johnny's ideas and then by patriotism and the American Dream.

    Gender: male

    Age: 20 to 30

    Vocal range top: B4

    Vocal range bottom: D3

    Will

    Johnny's friend. He ends up staying in Suburbia to take care of pregnant girlfriend Heather. The more he stays on the couch, the more he becomes slowly disconnected from the world and his own relationships.

    Gender: male

    Age: 20 to 30

    Vocal range top: A4

    Vocal range bottom: C#3

    St. Jimmy

    Johnny's alter ego. Known as the "city badass." An enigmatic and charismatic enabler who gets Johnny addicted to drugs and grows jealous of his relationship with Whatsername.

    Gender: male

    Age: 30 to 40

    Vocal range top: F#5

    Vocal range bottom: C3

    Heather

    A girl in Suburbia and Will's girlfriend. She discovers she is pregnant but has difficulty telling her boyfriend of the news. Once she settles down with him, she struggles to maintain their relationship with his despondency and eventually leaves him.

    Gender: female

    Age: 20 to 30

    Vocal range top: E5

    Vocal range bottom: A3

    Whatsername

    A girl in the city who falls for Johnny. A rebellious activist who is willing to follow Johnny to the ends of the earth, but fights to have him embrace their authentic relationship rather than pursue his addiction.

    Gender: female

    Age: 20 to 30

    Vocal range top: D#5

    Vocal range bottom: F#3

    Extraordinary Girl

    A girl in the Middle East who appears as a sexual hallucination to injured Tunny. Attractive and mysterious, she later appears as his nurse and accompanies him home after the war.

    Gender: female

    Age: 20 to 35

    Vocal range top: E5

    Vocal range bottom: Bb3

    Ensemble

    The Men (Carson, Daniel, Brandon, John, Jamal, Dustin, Jared); The Women (Chelsea, Ashley, Aurie)