Andrew Lloyd Webber To Bring SCHOOL OF ROCK To The Stage

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 9:11pm

Really excited that SOR is finally becoming a musical, but Andrew L. Webber? O.o Intersting choice, but I'll take it!


http://broadwayworld.com/article/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-To-Bring-SCHOOL-OF-ROCK-To-The-Stage-20130405 Updated On: 4/5/13 at 09:11 PM

[jetts7]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 9:28pm

Dream casting; GO!

[Wynbish]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 9:37pm

It's hard to dream cast a nightmare

[Playbilly]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 9:44pm

I'm casting a lot of doubt about this project.

[DustyC]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 9:49pm

Tom Hanks as The Bill

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 10:01pm

It's hard to dream cast a nightmare

Quite possibly the best thing I've read on here.

[Kelly2]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 10:23pm

I feel like it's almost inevitable for Josh Gad to end up with the Jack Black role.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 10:32pm

Oh my gosh, Josh would be perfect!

[CJ N2N]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 11:19pm

NO NO NO NO Updated On: 4/5/13 at 11:19 PM

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 12:28am

Lloyd Webber is the exact opposite person this project needs, especially with his alleged disdain for rock music, post-Evita.

Now, if he's producing and getting someone with an actual foot in rock music since the early Seventies to write some songs, that would be different. Paging Tim Minchin anyone?

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 12:30am

This is an odd pairing...

[BroadwayBelter3]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 12:31am

Agreed that Andrew Lloyd Webber is the wrong person for this but I would love to see his son take this project. It's a little more up his alley.

[rorschach37]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 9:25am

I love the movie, but ALW??? REALLY?! Eh, maybe they'll have Jack Black reprise his role for the stage.

[DustyC]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 10:28am

Ohhhhhh School of Rock I thought it said School House Rock. In that case I cast the guy who played jack blacks character in High Fidleity

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 11:14am

This could totally work as a musical. He's not writing the music, right? He's just producing. So who cares? He obviously knows how to put on some spectacle.

[John Adams]

Posted: 4/6/13 at 12:13pm

>>It's hard to dream cast a nightmare

Quite possibly the best thing I've read on here.

Agreed!

Personally, I think Lord Lloyd-Webber's productions suffer from a lack of focus (most recent case in point: His inability to 'finalize' Love Never Dies even a year after its official opening in the West End).

Why, when he's still hemming and hawing over completing his Profumo Affair musical, is he clouding his focus by producing SOR? Perhaps it will afford him further excuses for not completing the task at hand... >DOH!<



Updated On: 4/6/13 at 12:13 PM

[AddisonMizner]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 11:18am

I personally don't understand why Lloyd Webber would go for this. Sure I can see the material's stage potential. I mean music is the film's main driving force and it does already have songs in it, albeit ones that do not function to progress the narrative (though come to think of it, one could actually get rid of the film's pre-existing songs and replace them with new ones, therefore creating an entirely original score) but even so, I don't think that he is the right composer to pen the music. If anything, it needs a more contemporary, rock-orientated composer - someone like Broadway's Tom Kitt, Lin-Manuel Miranda or even Jason Robert Brown. From the UK, Tim Minchin is a better choice for SCHOOL OF ROCK - he has a "rockier" and "edgier" sensibility so could potentially write a great musical adaptation of this. Although, I can't say that I'm itching to see this as a musical. I'm fed up with movie-to-musical adaptations!

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 12:34pm

Tim Minchin just did a season on Californication, the roman a clef series about Hollywood insiders and outsiders, as a character whose inspiration appeared to be fifty percent Axl Rose, fifty percent Russell Brand. During his run as the character, Minchin performed a number of songs as Atticus Fetch, rock legend whose career descent (parallel to Guns n' Roses being unable to produce their followup album) heralded the end of the metal and classic rock eras.

The songs were great. I totally bought them as being authentic and of their era, while they fit the character and situations. Minchin has a gift for bridging genres- he combined indie pop and stand-up comedy most famously, but the guy definitely knows what he's doing. Here's one of his songs from Californication:

https://soundcloud.com/planet-promo/tim-minchin-as-atticus-fetch

[DEClarke]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 4:42pm

I have no interest in this whatsoever.

Also, ALW has said that i may be about as musical as the film, which means it may not be a musical.