The Drumbeat of Andrew Lloyd Webber

Gotham magazine and New York Post set the stage for Sunday's Broadway opening.

SchoolofRockMusicalIn previews since Nov. 9, the Broadway musical adaptation of 2003 film School of Rock opens Sunday at the Winter Garden Theatre. It’s the first time mega-producer and songwriter Andrew Lloyd Webber has debuted one of his productions in New York.

New York Post theater critic Michael Riedel recently went on a walk with Webber through the theater district, alighting at one point in front of the Mark Hellinger Theatre, where as a co-songwriter in 1971, Webber watched the unfurlment of Jesus Chris Superstar:

“I really hated it,” Lloyd Webber says.

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