Anyone that knew the 16-year-old version of myself knew that I was completely and utterly obsessed with the band Green Day. I have to admit, it got a little embarrassing at times.
Yesterday, April 20, Green Day’s original broadway show, American Idiot.
And guess who ended up as a Broadway star?
See: top left hand corner of the toilet tank for some Ticky!
Tick Tock has somehow maneuvered her way onto the Great White Way. The picture on the right is from a scene on the American Idiot stage. I know, I know, it’s a toilet. But one of Green Day’s songs from the American Idiot album said:
“I read the graffiti on the bathroom stall, like the holy scriptures of the shopping mall.”
So, you have to think that it might be a pretty poignant part of the whole show, which makes me even more excited. And how many people in the world can say that their art has made it onto an original Broadway set?
Ticky was the first person to show me this. She knew me back when I was obsessed with Green Day (and still secretly am), and I completely flipped out when I saw it. It was like I was 16 again: with my baggy black t-shirts and pink hair, copying Dookie lyrics in my notebooks and dreaming of Billie Joe Armstrong.
Ticky told me she doesn’t know how it ended up on the set, and I think it makes it a little bit more exciting. That means people know about Tick Tock, and Philly street art enough to want it to spread across the United States.
So congrats on your Broadway debut, Ticky. Maybe you should take your career to the big screen!
Painted Philly 