Joel Beers from OC Theatre Guild interviews Green Day’s American Idiot director James Michael McHale and Chance Theater’s Casey Long about the personal and political
Read full article | Buy Tickets | More about 'American Idiot'“As a company, we are always focused on the human connection,” in the work it produces, rather than any overt political content, says Chance Managing Director Casey Long. “And this is a show that is very much about three friends finding their place in their world after a very destabilizing event in this country”
“recognizing that what makes “American Idiot” fit so well in the Chance’s well-developed wheelhouse of musical productions is that it works on the personal and political levels.”
“It didn’t strike a chord as much as hit a vein of a generation that was trying to speak up and make its voice heard and to question authority,” says Long. “And I think that legacy of speaking out and asking questions is still alive. So, I don’t know if the musical speaks more to the reality of today as much as it’s a fire that never stopped.”
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