School of Rock

Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Performances on Wednesday the 21st to Saturday, the 24th of May at 7:30 pm and a matinee at 2:30 pm on Saturday

Wellington Operatic Society Musical Theatre Company are bringing a wonderfully vibrant, noisy, expansive School of Rock: The Musical to the Wellesley next month. With a big cast of talented performers – including 18 young people who are relishing playing pupils who throw off the restrictions of their straight-laced school – it’s already looking and sounding explosively entertaining, even in rehearsal. Based on the smash-hit movie starring Jack Black, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, School of Rock tells the story of Dewey Finn – a failed rock star who fakes his way into a teaching job at a prestigious prep school. But instead of textbooks and timetables, he turns his class into a full-blown rock band and sets o…