PThespian said: "eddy3 said: "ClumsyDude15 said: "kdogg36 said: "My mind is a complete blank on the details, but I think there's aCats-related joke inSchool of Rock.Maybe someone else can remember exactly what it is!"
There is! It is during the part in the show when Dewey is auditioning the kids for the band and Summer sings Memory as her audition song and he stops her and tells her he doesn't know what that is but he never wants to hear it again. The joke is also from the movie in a similar form."
The joke is a little more funny, as Dewey says he never wants to hear that song again in this theatre. The theatre that School of Rock plays in is the Winter Garden, the same theatre that Cats played in for nearly 20 years. In the West End production of School of Rock, they play in the Gillian Lynne Theatre, renamed after the choreographer of Cats, and is where the original West End production of Cats played for over 20 years. Both theatres had Memory sung thousands of times.
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Dewey doesn’t say that...at least not on Broadway. I just worked the show tonight. Each Dewey has their own improvised reaction. The current ones go with, “I don’t know what that was, but I never want to hear it again.” There has never been anything about “in this theater.”"
Maybe they changed it, because that is how they said the line when I saw it on Broadway. My friend saw it in London, and it was the same line. To be fair to the current Dewey, the joke didn't land in either Broadway when I went or in London for my friend. It just went over the audience's head, which had a lot of teens. I can see why an actor would want to change it if wasn't working. Though, I was laughing hysterically.
Updated On: 7/12/18 at 03:58 PM
