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School Of Rock London Celebrates 1000th Performance
Published on
March 7, 2019
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's award-winning musical School Of Rock celebrated its 1000th performance last night at London's Gillian Lynne Theatre.
Craig Gallivan, Dewey Finn, Julian Fellowes and Laurence Connor with the cast of School Of Rock West End. Photo: Luke Valley Present at the celebrations at the Gillian Lynne Theatre were the show's book writer Julian Fellowes, the show's director Laurence Connor and the show's choreographer JoAnn M Hunter.
The cast of School Of Rock West End. Photo: Luke Varley Craig Gallivan leads the cast in the role of Dewey Finn with Claudia Kariuki as Rosalie Mullins, Alan Pearson as Ned Schneebly, Michelle Francis as Patty Di Marco and Jake Sharp who will play Dewey Finn at certain performances. The remaining adult cast comprises John Addison, Nick Butcher, Rob Falconer, Martina Isibor, Claudia Kariuki, Jessica Louise Parkinson, Richard Morse, Andy Rees, Hannah Stratton, Alex Tomkins and James Wolstenholme with swings Paul Kemble, Jessica Kirton, Billy Mitchell, Catherine Morris and Andy Prosser. They are joined by Gavin Alex, Georgie Ashford, Koko Basigara, Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, Ashford Campbell, Treyc Cohen, Natasha Cottriall, Michael Duke, Matthew Gonsalves, Jammy Kasongo, Leigh Lothian and Earl R. Perkins who play iconic musical performers and band members of the era and swings Derek Aidoo, Rosie Heath, Dominic Hodson, Emma Louise Jones, Jessica Joslin, Vicki Manser, David O’Mahony and Jaime Tait.
School of Rock – The Musical features music from the movie, as well as new music was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Julian Fellowes. School of Rock - The Musical is directed by Laurence Connor with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter, set and costume designs by Anna Louizos, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Mick Potter, music supervision by John Rigby with Matt Smith as musical director.
Now in its third year, the West End production opened in November 2016 and went on to win an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music.
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