The stage adaptation of the hit 2003 film School of Rock, about a wannabe rock star who works as a substitute teacher and forms a rock band with his students, will open on Broadway next year, its producers said on Thursday.
School of Rock - the Musical, which will begin previews in November and is set to open on December 6, 2015, will feature songs from the film and new music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and a book by Julian Fellowes, the creator of the acclaimed period TV drama Downton Abbey.
“School of Rock is hugely about how music can empower kids,” Lloyd Webber, the composer of Cats, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera said in a statement announcing the musical.
His company, The Really Useful Group, along with Warner Music Group & Access Industries and the Shubert and Nederlander organisations, are bringing the film to the stage. Casting for the musical is due to start in January.
The film, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Jack Black as the aspiring rocker Dewey Finn, grossed more than $131 million (Dh481 million) at the global box office.
