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, with a screenplay 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 was announced in December 2014 and opened just under a year later on December 6, 2015.  It made its Broadway debut and world premiere at the Winter Garden Theatre on December 6, 2015, following previews that began on November 9, 2015.  (More from Wikipedia)

 

 

 

Just because a hip hop musical made this big a splash doesn’t mean that rock musicals have gone away.  Broadway titan Andrew Lloyd Webber returned to his roots with his current show, School of Rock that opened on Broadway four months after Hamilton, on December 6, 2015.  The musical is based on the delightful Jack Black film from 2003, School of Rock that follows a washed-up rock musician who conceives the idea of masquerading as a substitute teacher and pressing a group of fourth graders into backing him at the local Battle of the Bands in order to get his career back on track.