Get your dancing shoes on and check your ears for any pesky ear wax as a swell rock and roll band is bouncing into your neighborhood and they won’t be ignored. Listen up!
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has done it again, created a super-duper musical that magically rocks the rafters. The Warner Theatre in Torrington will be nailing down everything that could jump, bump or vibrate as this stimulating and sensational "School of Rock" is let out of its protective wrapper until Sunday, August 4th.
With music by Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater and book by Julian Fellowes, based on the Jack Black film hit of the same name in 2003, "School of Rock" follows an unemployed rock musician who sings and plays guitar as he tries to make an honest dollar as a substitute teacher. Forget the fact that he was thrown out of his band and the school gig belongs not to him but to his best friend.
Dewey Finn created with angst and energy by Noel Roberge takes on his new slightly uncomfortable role at a prestigious prep school and instinctively, like a blood hound, discovers that his new charges have remarkable talents with musical instruments. Dewey's desire to smash his way to the top of the upcoming Battle of the Bands contest leads him to bring his machinations to transforming his class of fifth graders into rock stars.
Will these studious and straight haired students, who measure success in A's on report cards, let their hair down and follow this rather disreputable leader? Can Dewey perform his magical and maniacal mission without the kids' parents or the school authorities discovering his subversive and diabolical plot? How can he get the students to blow their staid exteriors to let loose mind-expanding musical personas?
Before you can say "rock and roll" three times, Dewey has encouraged his class to abandon gold stars and academic achievement and pledge total and complete allegiance to the band. Soon school uniforms are gone and his students are blasting out on electric guitars, bass, keyboard and drums and Dewey, the failure and band reject and wannabe rock star, is off and ready to climb "To the Top of Mount Rock.” Tunes like “You’re in the Band,” “Stick It to the Man,” and “Teacher’s Pet” will set you flying.
For tickets, call the Warner Theatre, 66 Main Street, Torrington at 860-489-7180 or online at warnertheatre.org. Final performances are Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Plan ahead for other entertaining offerings like The Righteous Brothers with a That Lovin’ Feeling’ Farewell Tour on August 18, the music of Sweden’s ABBA on September 22, an early Halloween treat with Hocus Pocus on September 27 and 28, the Nutmeg’s Conservatory traditional favorite The Nutcracker December 7 and 8 and 14 and 15. Check the website for many more treats.
Come see if Dewey can perform musical miracles and, at the same time, win the damsel of his dreams.
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