Andrew Lloyd Webber is planning a stage show adaptation of School of Rock. The composer revealed to CBC Radio that he has acquired the rights to the 2003 comedy movie starring Jack Black. He explained that he will undertake the project once he has completed work on his upcoming musical based on the Profumo scandal.
Andrew told host Jian Ghomeshi that he was "very excited" about the idea, and that he may add new songs to the musical. "There may be songs for me in it, but it's obviously got songs in it as it stands," Andrew said. School of Rock follows struggling rocker Dewey Finn pretending to be his substitute teacher friend, before guiding his new pupils on a battle of the bands competition.
The musical will be quite a different affair to his new musical about a political scandal in the 1960s. He joked: "I will go from Stephen Ward, which is really going to be sort of a chamber musical, to a musical about kids playing the guitar." Andrew is working with Don Black and Christopher Hampton on the Profumo musical, with a launch date still to be announced.
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