The Original Broadway Cast Recording American Idiot (featuring Green Day)

VINYL FORMAT. The album features the twenty-four member cast accompanied by Green Day, marking another incredible collaboration between the band and the musical. Based on Green Day's chart-topping 2004 album American Idiot, the musical and the cast recording include every song from American Idiot, as well as several songs from the band's album 21st Century Breakdown. Green Day's singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool wrote the electrifying score to the show, which follows the exhilarating journey of a new generation of young Americans as they strive to find meaning in a post-9/11 world. Armstrong wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book with the show's director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening). The album's arrangements and orchestration were done by composer Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), who is the show's music supervisor, orchestrator and music arranger. Armstrong is the album's producer. The album features the entire Broadway cast, including John Gallagher, Jr. as "Johnny", Tony Vincent as "St. Jimmy," Stark Sands as "Tunny," Michael Esper as "Will," Rebecca Naomi Jones as "Whatsername," Christina Sajous as "Extraordinary Girl," and Mary Faber as "Heather."