The run closed January 20, 2019
- Opened
- December 6, 2015
- Closed
- January 20, 2019
- Performances
- 1,309
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 13th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The School of Rock 2 more that season
| 2018 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2020 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it58 named
Taylor Caldwell
Emily Cramer
Evie Dolan
Natalie Charle Ellis
Carly Gendell
Alan H Green
Michael Hartney
John Hemphill
Merritt David Janes
Shahadi Wright Joseph
Ethan Khusidman
Jaygee Macapugay
Bobbi Mackenzie
Dante Melucci
Brandon Niederauer
Cassie Okenka
Luca Padovan
Jared Parker
Isabella Russo
Jersey Sullivan
Jonathan Wagner
Corinne Wilson
Jeremy Woodard
Conner John Gillooly
Lori Eve Marinacci
Will Blum
Becky Gulsvig
Terrance Bell Jr
Matt Bittner
Steven Booth
Ava Briglia
Olivia Chun
John Arthur Greene
Gabby Gutierrez
Gianna Harris
Nehal Joshi
Jim Kaplan
Rachel Katzke
Gavin Kim
Lizzie Klemperer
Madison Elizabeth Lagares
Hudson Loverro
Raghav Mehrotra
Diane Phelan
Walden Sullivan
Josh Tower
Annabelle Wachtel
J Michael Zygo
10 of these 58 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 48 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters17 roles recorded
Alex Brightman Dewey Finn
Sierra Boggess Rosalie Mullins
Spencer Moses Ned Schneebly
Mamie Parris Patty Di Marco
Taylor Caldwell Shonelle
Evie Dolan Katie
Jersey Sullivan James
Corinne Wilson Sophie
Carly Gendell Marcy
Ethan Khusidman Mason
Dante Melucci Freddy
Bobbi Mackenzie Tomika
Brandon Niederauer Zack
Luca Padovan Billy
Jared Parker Lawrence
Isabella Russo Summer
Shahadi Wright Joseph Madison/Matthew*
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Laurence Connor
- Choreographer
- JoAnn M. Hunter
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awardscategories not held
0 wins from 4 nominations. Which categories is not on this record.
Around this production
School of Rock is a rock musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Julian Fellowes. Based on the 2003 film of the same name, written by Mike White, the musical follows Dewey Finn, an out-of-work rock singer and guitarist who pretends to be a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. After identifying the musical talent in his students, Dewey forms a band of fifth-graders, in an attempt to win the upcoming Battle of the Bands contest. The musical made its Broadway debut and world premiere on December 6, 2015, at the Winter Garden Theatre, following previews from November 9, 2015, directed by Laurence Connor and starring Alex Brightman as Dewey Finn…
- In 2015 he was working on a musical version of School of Rock for Broadway. Razzle Dazzle the Battle For Broadway Michael Riedel 2015 Simon Schuster Limited, p. 435
- But he would not have another Broadway hit until School of Rock in 2015. Singular Sensation the Triumph of Broadway the Triumph of Michael Riedel First A, p. 32
- School of Rock (2015). Considering that substitute teacher Mr. Finn has his students playing ear-shatteringly loud music, why isn’t the teacher in the next room barging in to complain and put a stop to all that noise? The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 109
- Because of the good word from the States, School of Rock had a healthy presale in London and business was brisk from the start. It is, as of this writing, still running. The Mikado To Matilda British Musicals On the New York Thomas S Hischak Rowman L, p. 337
- Finally, in 2015 the screen-to-stage School of Rock brought a little more success back to the composer. The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 456
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The School of Rock at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.