Billie Joe Armstrong Joins Broadway's "American Idiot"

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is briefly joining the cast of "American Idiot," the Broadway musical he helped create based on the band's 2004 Grammy Award-winning album of the same name.

The show's producers announced Sunday that Armstrong will take over the role of persuasive drug dealer St. Jimmy for eight performances from Tuesday through Oct. 3.

Pictures: "American Idiot" on Broadway

Armstrong is temporarily replacing actor Tony Vincent, who's on leave until Oct. 12 for what producers call a personal family matter.

Vincent's understudies will cover the part during the second week of his absence, as Armstrong will be leaving Broadway to join Green Day to begin a South American tour, the New York Times notes.

It's the Broadway debut for Armstrong, who composed and co-wrote the musical.

The show follows an antihero who flees a deadening suburbia and descends into sex, drugs and fierce guitar playing in his quest to find himself in the big city.

Among the songs that Armstrong will perform as St. Jimmy are "Know Your Enemy," "Homecoming," "Last Night on Earth" and "St. Jimmy."

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