Billie Joe Armstrong,frontman of Green day is headed back to Broadway.Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 27, the singer will take the stage for 50 performances of "American Idiot."
The production had been previously joined by Armstrong,a Tony Award nominee this year for Best Musical, during a one-week engagement from Sept. 28 to Oct. 3. During that week, the show's attendance spiked to 93% capacity, and its gross hit $1.09 million, according to weekly statistics complied by the Broadway League.
Isaac Robert Hurwitz, executive director of the New York Musical Theater Festival said that ""He was such as success when he did that stint—there were lines around the block."
Attendance and grosses dropped steeply since the departure of Mr.Armstrong.
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