For the past year, Van Hughes has sat in the wings of the St. James Theatre as a standby for American Idiot’s three leading roles. Now, as a slew of new cast members join Green Day’s rock opera, Hughes (a veteran of 9 to 5 and Hairspray) has been called up to the big time to take over as the show’s angsty young rocker, Johnny. Shortly after his first fulltime performance, Broadway.com chatted with t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AM on March 4, 2011