The stage adaptation of ‘American Idiot’, named after and featuring songs from US punk-rockers Green Day’s 2004 album, will arrive in the UK for the first time next autumn.

First staged in California in 2009, the show has enjoyed an extended Broadway run, picking up a couple of Tony Awards – admittedly for Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting – in the process. Producers have now given the green light on a transatlantic transfer, and are planning an inaugural UK performance of the musical in October of next year. Londoners will get a chance to take in the sights and sounds of the one-act rock spectacle two months later, when it visits the Hammersmith Apollo for six consecutive nights in early December.

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who wrote the book on which the musical is based, says this: “We can’t wait for our friends across the pond to see the musical. We played to some of the most insane crowds when we toured the album there”.

No word yet as to whether he’ll  step in to play the role of highly-strung drug-dealer St Jimmy, as he did on several occasions in America. Though either way, here’s what that might look like:

Reps for David Bowie have denied reports that the singer has licensed songs from his catalogue for use in a new stage show called ‘Heroes: The Musical’.

Various media, including The Observer, reported last weekend that writer Deep Singh had devised a musical including various songs from Bowie’s repertoire, and that – having got the green light from the singer’s people – the show would debut at The O2′s IndigO2 venue next March. The paper quoted Singh as saying: “We could not really believe it when they gave us permission. His people had warned us that it was very unlikely that he would be interested and that he had been asked many times before. We did not want Mr Bowie to think it was going to be a tribute show, and that seems to have had an effect”.

But it seems Singh may have jumped the gun, because Team Bowie deny any knowledge of the show. A statement posted on the official David Bowie website shortly after The Observer article appeared reads: “Neither the David Bowie Organisation, nor its co-publishers EMI Music and Chrysalis, has issued a license for a Bowie musical at The O2, as has been reported in the UK. There are no negotiations pending for a long-running musical featuring the music of Mr Bowie”.

So look at that, apparently some things are sacred.