Musical Theatre: The Original Versions Of American Idiot

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Before watching this video when I think of musical theatre I would think of opera or Disney musical. The first thing that come to my mind would be many performers are acting and singing to converse their messages to the audiences. I would related to Bollywood to musical theatre where the performers singing and dancing in a form of acting out their storyline. The stories are usually about some kind of tragic and romance plot where the two performers would fall in lover and sometime might end up as a happy ending and other time might end up with a tragic ending. After watching the video my impression of the theatre musical was completely wrong and I felt dump found. The original themes or theatre versions of American Idiot is about the

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