Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Smash Hit West End &
Broadway Musical School Of Rock Is Coming To Newcastle!
School of Rock
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Monday 24 - Saturday 29 April 2021
School
of Rock - The Musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash hit, award-winning West
End show is set to rock out Newcastle Theatre Royal during May 2021 with
tickets going on sale next week.
Based on the hilarious hit
movie, this new musical follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who
decides to earn a few extra bucks by posing as a substitute teacher at a
prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight-A students into a
guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band – sensationally
performed live by the production’s young actors every night with roof-raising
energy!
While teaching these
pint-sized prodigies what it means to truly rock, Dewey falls for the school’s
beautiful, but uptight headmistress, helping her rediscover the wild child
within.
Featuring 14 new songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and all the
original songs from the movie, this high-octane smash delivers face-melting
guitar riffs and touching romance in equally awesome doses.
Friends of the Theatre Royal
can book from Mon 16 Mar with general on sale at 10am on Fri 20 Mar 2020.
School
of Rock - The Musical features new music written by Andrew
Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Glenn Slater (The Little Mermaid, Sister Act) and a book by Julian Fellowes.
It is directed by Laurence Connor (Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, London Palladium 2019) with
choreography by JoAnn M.Hunter, set and costume designs by Anna
Louizos, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design
by Mick-Potter, music supervision by John Rigby with Matt
Smith as musical director.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer
of some of the world’s best known musicals including Cats, Evita,
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, The
Phantom of the Opera (which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary)
and Sunset Boulevard. In New
York, School of Rock – The Musical, a
stage version of the movie, is currently running alongside Cats and Phantom of the Opera,
equalling Lloyd Webber’s previous record of three shows running simultaneously
on Broadway.
His awards, both as composer and producer, include seven Tonys,
seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard
Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, a BASCA Fellowship, the
Kennedy Center Honor and a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition
for Requiem, his setting of the Latin Requiem mass which contains one of his
best known compositions, Pie Jesu. He owns seven London theatres
including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, the New London Theatre and the London
Palladium. He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created
an honorary member of the House of Lords in 1997. He is passionate about
the importance of music in education and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has
become one of Britain’s leading charities supporting the arts and music.
School
of Rock has a book by Julian
Fellowes, for which he received a Tony nomination. Julian the creator, writer and executive
producer of the worldwide hit TV series Downton
Abbey, which has received 69 Emmy Award nominations, winning 15, including
two awards for Fellowes.
Casting
for the UK Touring production is to be announced.
The
UK & Ireland Tour of School of Rock – The Musical is
produced by David Ian Productions.
Tickets:
School
of Rock is at Newcastle Theatre Royal Monday 24 - Saturday 29 April
2021 playing evenings at 7.30pm and matinees on Thursday at 2pm and Saturday at
2.30pm. Tickets from £20.00 can be
purchased from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 08448 11 21 21 (Calls cost 7ppm plus your phone
company’s access charge) or book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk.
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