The line-up of ‘Horace Green Kids’ in the band on press night was Eva McGrath as Freddy on drums (and boy, could she pound those skins!), Chloe Marler as Katie booming it out on bass, Joseph Sheppard as cool dude Zack on lead guitar and Angus McDougall as Lawrence, the keyboard player who could give Rick Wakeman a run for his money. These young heroes do actually play the instruments – there is no miming. He rarely pauses for breath and his performance is – in a word – phenomenal.
Sharp feeds off them and they take inspiration from him – it’s a lovely merry go round. Wouldn’t be a school without kids of course and it wouldn’t be a school of rock without these dirty dozens. They say actors should never work with kids or animals – well, Jake Sharp as Dewy has to work with a dozen of them – and three different dozens on a circulating rota to boot. As the song goes ‘Don’t know much trigonometry but what a wonderful world this can be!’ The kids in his class are all classical music playing academic swats who he changes into his rocklets on a rocky road of discovery. The lure of the American green back is too much of a temptation and Dewey passes himself off as Mr Schneebly, aka Ned. Patty wants Dewey to pay rent or get out but luckily for Dewy, he takes a phone call intended for Ned offering him a substitute teacher’s job at the ‘Horace Green’ school.
#School of rock script pigs free#
Sacked from his band, Dewey sponges free digs at his best friend Ned’s house much to the chagrin of Ned’s nag-bag fiancée Patty. It’s actually all down to a ‘down but not out’ rock musician by the name of Dewey Finn. The packed audience comprised an awful lot of excited, dressed-to-boogie scholars, who were there to rock along to this jolly tale of how prim-and-proper private school students end up performing at the ‘Battle of the Bands.’ If you were perchance nearby the Alexandra Theatre last night then you couldn’t help but feel the streets pulsating as the ‘School of Rock’ hit Birmingham.
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