Andrew Lloyd Webber To Bring SCHOOL OF ROCK To The Stage

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

It's hard to dream cast a nightmare

Tom Hanks as The Bill

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

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NO NO NO NO

Updated On: 4/5/13 at 11:19 PM

This is an odd pairing...

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

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.

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!

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.