WHO’S WHO in the CAST
ABBY POWERS (Assistant Stage Manager).
Having worked as a performer, stagehand,
choreographer and stage manager, favorite credits
include Cinderella, Cats, 42nd Street, West Side
Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Ghost, Annie and
Joseph and the…Dreamcoat. “Thanks, Mom and
Dad for these traveling tootsies!”
NEURO TOUR (Physical Therapy) provides
performing arts physical therapy and is honored
to be part of School of Rock. Neuro has provided
backstage treatment to more than 80 musical
theater productions including Broadway: The Lion
King, Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Off-Broadway:
Stomp!, Sleep No More; Tours: Movin’ Out,
Billy Elliot, War Horse; Concert: U2, P!nk and
Katy Perry.
THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP (Producer)
is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theater-producing
and rights-licensing company and controls the
theatrical rights for all of Andrew’s works,
including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus
Christ Superstar, Evita and Sunset Boulevard.
The Really Useful Group reached more than 20
million people across the globe last year from
live theater and concert audiences, cinema goers,
television viewers and music fans to social media
and art lovers. In 2015, the Really Useful Group
continues to work across fi lm, television and
theater as it produces and develops new projects
and partnerships worldwide alongside its ongoing
work in education, amateur licensing and
music publishing.
WARNER MUSIC GROUP (Producer).
Beyond producing, Warner Music Group’s
involvement with School of Rock includes
the release of the cast album via Warner Bros.
Records. With its broad roster of new stars and
legendary artists, Warner Music Group is home
to a collection of the best-known record labels in
the music industry, including Asylum, Atlantic,
Big Beat, East West, Elektra, Erato, Fueled by
Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino,
Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Bros. Warner Classics,
Warner Music Nashville and Word, as well as
Warner/Chappell Music, one of the world’s
leading music publishers, with a catalog of more
than one million copyrights worldwide.
ACCESS INDUSTRIES (Producer) is a
privately held industrial group with longterm
holdings worldwide. Founded in 1986 by
Len Blavatnik, an American entrepreneur
and philanthropist, Access focuses on four
key sectors: natural resources and chemicals,
media and telecommunications, real estate,
and technology and e-commerce. Its media
and entertainment holdings include Warner
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Music Group and AI Film. Access entities
have supported numerous fi lm and theatrical
productions over the years, including Hamilton
and Finding Neverland and the Public Theater.
accessindustries.com.
THE SHUBERT ORGANIZATION
(Producer) has produced and co-produced
hundreds of Broadway plays and musicals,
including Cats, Dreamgirls, Sunday in the Park
with George, The Life and Times of Nicholas
Nickleby, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway,
Once, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Gin
Game and King Charles III. Under the leadership
of Philip J. Smith, Chairman, and Robert E.
Wankel, President, the Shubert Organization
owns and operates 17 historic Broadway theaters
and six Off-Broadway venues.
NEDERLANDER PRESENTATIONS, INC.
(Producer) is a producing company under the
leadership of James L. Nederlander. The company
operates a chain of legitimate theaters including
the Brooks Atkinson, Gershwin, Lunt-Fontanne,
Marquis, Minskoff, Nederlander, Neil Simon,
Palace and Richard Rodgers on Broadway, and
many landmark venues around the world from
Los Angeles to London. Recent credits include
the all new Broadway production of Cats, An
American in Paris and On Your Feet!—The Story
of Emilio & Gloria Estefan.
BESPOKE THEATRICALS (Executive
Producer). Partners Amy Jacobs and Devin
Keudell manage Broadway musicals, plays and
tours. Current/recent productions include The
Play That Goes Wrong, Groundhog Day, Present
Laughter, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, Cats, The
Curious Incident… (Broadway/tour), The Color
Purple and Something Rotten! General Managers
in the fi rm include Nathan Gehan, David Roth
and Danielle Saks.
MADELEINE LLOYD WEBBER (Executive
Producer) chased the stage rights of School of
Rock from 2006 after watching the fi lm with her
children, fi nally landing them in 2012. She fell in
love with the fi lm, fi nding it hilarious, charming
and above all, very touching. The fi lm’s celebration
of the transforming power of music on young
people was very close to her heart. She is proud to
be a trustee of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Program,
which promises every child an entitlement to study
a musical instrument on entry to school, as well as
tuition and the opportunity to play and perform
as part of ensemble or orchestra groups. Nearly
3,000 children are now part of that program. She
is a director of Really Useful Group and Really
Useful Theatres.