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Broadway Across America – Boston announced today that single tickets for the national tour of Broadway’s AMERICAN IDIOT,  will go on sale Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10am.

AMERICAN IDIOT, a 2010 Tony Award®-nominated Best Musical and 2010 Grammy Award winner for Best Musical Show Album, features the music of Green Day with the lyrics of its lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. The book is by Armstrong and Michael Mayer and direction is by Tony Award®-winner Mayer (“Spring Awakening”).

The acclaimed creative team also includes choreography by Olivier Award-winner Steven Hoggett (“Black Watch”), and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Kitt (“Next to Normal”). The Tony Award®-winning scenic design by Christine Jones and the Tony Award®-winning lighting design by Kevin Adams will also be featured in the tour.

Nominated for three Tony Awards®, AMERICAN IDIOT is the story of three boyhood friends, each searching for meaning in a post 9-11 world. Through incredible spectacle, thrilling performances and with the hope embodied by a new generation, AMERICAN IDIOT has given Broadway audiences the time of their lives night after night since the musical began performances at the St. James Theatre in March 2010.

The musical features the hits “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “21 Guns,” “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” “Holiday” and the blockbuster title track “American Idiot” from Green Day’s 2004 Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum album. Also included in the score are several songs from Green Day’s 2009 release “21st Century Breakdown,” and an unreleased love song, “When It’s Time.”

AMERICAN IDIOT premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in September 2009 and played through November of that year. In April 2010, the musical opened on Broadway.

For more information on AMERICAN IDIOT, please visit www.americanidiotthemusical.com.

PERFORMANCES ARE:        Tuesday at 7 pm
Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 pm
Friday at 8 pm
Saturday at 2 pm and 8 pm
Sunday at 1 pm and 6:30 pm

TICKET PRICES:        Starting at $33

TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets go on sale Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10am and will be available through an authorized ticket seller found only at Ticketmaster 1-800-982-2787 and by visiting www.BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com/Boston.  Group orders of 15 or more may be placed by calling the Broadway Across America – Boston Group Sales office at 617-482-8616 or by email at BostonGroups@broadwayacrossamerica.com.

Sure everyone loves the ComicCon, but in advance of this year’s event, I wanted to revisit the classic video of PaceyCon.

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This just in from TNT :

Tonight, Kyra Sedgwick, Emmy®-winning star of TNT’s hit crime-drama “The Closer,” will chat live with fans during the premiere episode.

Sedgwick, who has earned an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe® for her performance as LAPD Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, will chat live tonight at 9 p.m. (ET) and then again at 9 p.m. (PT) at @kyrasedgwick #thecloser during the eagerly anticipated seventh-season premiere of “The Closer.” As the series embarks on what will be its final season, Sedgwick will chat about this summer’s exciting premiere episode and the difficult challenges her character will face.

Since its premiere in 2005, “The Closer” has scored numerous ratings records, including being the only series in cable history to rank #1 for five consecutive years.

The “Tonight Show” host had a chance to drive the 1938 Beetle – reputedly the oldest working Beetle, as well as the 2012 model.

See his take on  the cars here.