Like the band, Nee came up in the Bay Area. (“I hid them from my parents at first,” he admits now.) (Talking by phone from one of the rock opera’s tour stops on the East Coast, Nee comes off as an exceptionally sharp and thoughtful 21-year-old.)Ĭonsider: Nee has been listening to Green Day, the neo-punk band whose music forms the heart of this scorching stage show, since the fifth grade, when he started buying their albums. In pretty much every way, Alex Nee would seem the ideal fit to play the lead role of Johnny in “American Idiot.”Įxcept for that little matter of the show’s title.
