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SCHOOL PRODUCTION

BASED ON THE PARAMOUNT MOVIE WRITTEN BY MIKE WHITE

MUSIC BY LYRICS BY SCRIPT BY JULIAN FELLOWS

LIVE MUSIC BY MR DUNSTON, MRS HUDSON, MR USHER, MR DUNN, GEORGE PEGGIE, JOSHUA JAMIESON MUSICAL NUMBERS - ACT I

I’m Too Hot for You - No Vacancy and Dewey When I Climb to the Top of the Mount Rock - Dewey Horace Green Alma Mater - Rosalie, Students and Teachers Here at the Horace Green - Rosalie Children of Rock - Dewey and Ned Mount Rock (Reprise) - Patty Queen of the Night - Rosalie You’re in the Band - Dewey and Students If Only You Would Listen - Students In the End of Time (Acappella Version) - Dewey Faculty Quadrille - Teachers In the End of Time (Band Practice) - Dewey and Students Stick It to the Man - Dewey and Students In the End of Time (The Audition) - Dewey and Students Stick It to the Man (Reprise) - Dewey and Students MUSICAL NUMBERS - ACT II

Time to Play - Summer and Students Amazing Grace - Tomika Math Is a Wonderful Thing - Dewey Where Did the Rock Go? - Rosalie (Band Practice) - Dewey and Students Dewey’s Confession - Dewey, Rosalie, Patty, Ned and Parents If Only You Would Listen (Reprise) - Tomika and Other Students I’m Too Hot for You (Reprise) - No Vacancy School of Rock - Dewey and Students Stick It to the Man (Encore) - Dewey and Students Finale - Full Company REHEARSALS REHEARSALS

DRESS REHEARSALS DIRECTORS NOTES

I have to start by saying that as I sit here at my desk thinking about my introduction for these notes - I am overwhelmed with a sense of pride.

Since the curtains closed on the first night of School of Rock I have been inundated with fantastic comments about the show. Every person I have spoken to has praised the commitment, hard work and talent of every single member of the cast, along with various other lovely comments about the production as a whole. Thank you to everyone who came to see the show, and thank you for all the kind comments we have all received over the past few days. Your support was, and is greatly appreciated.

In putting on this production of School of Rock, the students worked incredibly hard. From day one of the rehearsals I have been consistently delighted with their effort and dedication to the show. To give you an idea of their commitment we began rehearsing twice a week back in March 2017. As I am sure you will agree the whole cast are tremendously talented, and each and everyone of them should be incredibly proud of each of their performances on stage. They sacrificed countless hours of their own time to make this show the success it was, and deserved the incredible reaction they received from the audience on both nights. The rest of the staff and I are very proud of them.

School of Rock was the first time I had ever directed anything in my life, and I have loved every minute of it. Thank you to all of my absolutely fantastic cast who I had the pleasure of working with every week. I couldn’t have wished for a nicer, friendlier, more talented group of students to make up my first ever cast. Thank you for making this such an enjoyable experience that I will never forget. I would also like to thank everyone who was involved in making this show possible. Finally, I would also like to thank Mr Close, Miss Beaton and Mrs Gavin for all of their hard work in helping me to make the show such a success. I simply could not have done it without their continued support.

I have been humbled by the response to the show, and can say that it has been the proudest moment of my professional career.

Thank you, Mr Ward.

CAST AND CREW

DEWEY FINN PATTY AND MRS SANDFORD Jack Johnston Natalia Kalisz

ROSALIE MULLINS NED SCHNEEBLY Rebekah Summerhill Aidan Hill

THE STUDENTS BAND Summer - Scarlett Summer-Ford Mr Dunston, Mrs Hudson, Mr Usher, Zoe - Sushma Rahman Mr Dunn, George Peggie, Joshua Lawrence - Scott Morrow Jamieson Frankie - Olivia Wells Tomika - Emily Brown THE CREW Kyle - Ben Kirkland Mr Harrison, Mr Owens, Tom Molly - Kate Beales Watson, Philippa Langley, Hannah Billy - Joseph Meston Atkinson, Chloe Stevenson, Layla Sayyadi, Jenna Graham, Rajinder PUPILS Singh, Jack Wilson, Taylor Smith, Rebecca McCartney, Bethany Rachel Defty, Elizabeth Winter Chadaway, Georgia Thompson, Saskia Harrison PROMPT Mrs Swann MRS SHEINKOPF AND MRS PROGRAMME WRITER AND Monica Tiprigan DESIGNER Leah Graham GABBY BROWN AND MRS WILLIAMS REHEARSAL ASSISTANT Lana Beales Miss Eadie

STANLEY, MRS SPENCER AND TEACHER Kyla Derbyshire

MRS MOONEYHAM AND CHOREOGRAPHER TEACHER Miss Beaton Emily Stanton

MRS HATHAWAY AND TEACHER PRODUCER Sophie Wright Mrs Gavin

NO VACANCY Theo - Mr Close ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Snake - Mr Percy Mr Close Policeman - Mr Percy Jen Sanderson - Layla Sayyadi DIRECTOR Mr Ward PARENTS AND TEACHERS Mr Close, Mr Percy, Mrs Law, Mrs Whittle, Mrs Pike, Mrs Parkin SCHOOL OF ROCK

Based on the 2003 hit film and the book by , School of Rock The Musical made its Broadway debut on December 6, 2015, under a year within being officially commissioned. The original film was a box-office hit, earning more than $131 million worldwide, spawning a television series, a potential sequel and the stage production. The success of the film made it the highest grossing musical comedy of all time, holding the record for twelve years.

Andrew Lloyd Webber bought the rights to bring School of Rock to stage in 2013, with future shows performing on Broadway, West End and a U.S. tour. The musical opened with the leads cast as as Dewey Finn and as Rosalie Mullins, respectively.

The production follows failing rock singer Dewey Finn, whom is kicked out of his band No Vacancy. Subsequently after being fired from his day job at a record shop, Dewey’s dream of becoming a famous rock singer seems further away, adding insult to injury he is forced to find money to cover rent after being intimidated by his long-time friend Ned’s domineering girlfriend Patty. By chance, prep school Horace Green phones Dewey, in need of a substitute teacher. Posing as Ned, Dewey is hired. After witnessing a music class, he urges the class to audition for Battle of the Bands, a chance for stardom. Unconventionally, The School of Rock is formed. ACKNOWLEGEMENTS

Andrew Lloyd Webber When Sunset Boulevard joins School Of Rock, and The Phantom Of The Opera on Broadway this year, Andrew Lloyd Webber will become the only person to equal the record set in 1953 by Rodgers and Hammerstein with four Broadway shows running concurrently. Other musicals he has composed in-clude , Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, , and Love Never Dies. His production of School Of Rock is the first British musical to have world premiered on Broadway. He has co- produced his own shows including Cats and The Phantom Of The Opera and as a solo producer he presented the groundbreaking Bombay Dreams which introduced the double Oscar winning Bollywood composer AR Rahman to the Western stage. Other productions include the Olivier Award Winning Dai-sy Pulls It Off and La Bete, the record breaking Palladium production of and The Wizard of Oz. He owns seven West End Theatres including the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the Palladium and most recently the St James which will reopen this year as The Other Palace and provide a unique London home for new musicals in develop-ment. 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. 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 , his setting of the Latin Requiem mass which contains one of his best known compositions, Pie Jesu. He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created an honorary member of the House of Lords in 1997. Harton Academy January 2017