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Green Day -- from left, Tre Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Mike Dirnt, in a 2009 photo -- will play the Cleveland House of Blues on Thursday, April 16, two days before they are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame here.

(Charles Sykes, AP file)

CLEVELAND, Ohio - In a surprise announcement Wednesday, newly-minted Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Green Day revealed the band will play a Thursday, April 16, show at the Cleveland House of Blues.

It was such a surprise that the release AND the band's website, cognizant of the timing, noted "THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS' JOKE.''

Green Day, who will be inducted into the Rock Hall two days later, has been silent as a unit for almost a year. A report on their website just a little over a week ago featured an Instagram image of frontman and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, drummer Tre Cool and the newest member, guitarist Jason White, who has been a session and touring part of the band for years. The image noted that it was "the first jam in years.''

The band, whose members have declined repeated requests for interviews in light of their Rock Hall induction, also used their website to note a "special announcement'' would be made at the induction ceremony. Speculation is that it will be a new album, their first since a trilogy of albums -- "Uno!,'' "Dos!'' and "Tre!'' -- in 2012. But that could not be confirmed.

Armstrong has been busy satisfying the Broadway itch he first scratched in 2010 with the musical "American Idiot,'' a sort of updated version of "La Boheme'' featuring Green Day's music. His latest effort, "These Paper Bullets!,'' features music by Armstrong and will begin a run off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre in November or December, according to Variety.

The musical is a modern take on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing,'' and follows four Liverpool lads trying to cut their first album.

Tickets for the House of Blues show here, $75 for general admission and $125 for a scant number of reserved seats, go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday at the box office, Ticketmaster outlets, online at ticketmaster.com and by phone at 1-800-745-3000.

That's assuming there are any general public tickets left. Tickets to the band's Idiot Nation fan club go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday. Details are on the Green Day website.

This is a "credit card only'' show. New York-born rocker Jesse Malin opens.