School of Rock - The Musical (NYC) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (3,150)
See it if you like good music and a great writing. it keeps you engaged the whole time, never a dull moment. Alex Brightman makes the whole show.
Don't see it if you don't like young kids singing and dancing and doing a great job!
See it if You liked the movie or love Andrew Lloyd Webber. This was such a terrific surprise of a show! It would've won had Hamilton not been around
Don't see it if You don't like kids but they are truly the most fantastic and talented children on Earth
See it if Energetic performances. Alex Brightman is FABULOUS. Deserves to win the TONY just for his energy alone. The KIDS Rock - true professionals.
Don't see it if You hate loud rock music. You hate to laugh & you don't appreciate talented kids on stage.
See it if you want to see a bunch of really talented kids.
Don't see it if you didn't like the movie School of Rock or you don't like musicals with kids.
See it if You love music, and all children should see the show.
Don't see it if you don't enjoy children, lots of schools and young audience
See it if you like to be entertained. I wasn't so thrilled with the movie, but the Broadway show was excellent!
Don't see it if you don't like talented kids. The cast was great.
See it if Alex Brightman is in - he totally rocks! Good mood show, leaves you rested and light-hearted.
Don't see it if you don't like rocky score musicals or kids shows.
See it if Seek fresh clever musical theater
Don't see it if You hate talent
Critic Reviews (62)
"A high-energy, enjoyable, unrelentingly eager-to-please…The first thing to know is that the kids are genuine children who play their own instruments, and they’re all terrific…The production is as slick and sure of itself as if it had been running at the Winter Garden Theatre since 'Cats' closed 15 years ago…The book by Julian Fellowes moves amiably along with less of the film’s history of rock and more family back story for the kids, which works fine."
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"A dozen pint-sized and pitch-perfect performers bring heart to 'School of Rock…' An otherwise workaday screen-to-stage adaptation…The student characters sometimes verge on stock depictions, but the parents fully cross the line…I don’t imagine most of the big numbers here will enjoy an afterlife...The story doesn’t particularly resonate for me, but I won’t soon forget the feel-good vibe radiating off the talented young performers after their turns in the final competition."
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"For the most part it comes across as a one-dimensional outline of plot with no other purpose than to get from one musical number to another. The direction by Laurence Connor seems content to let the story unwind in predictable fashion...Against its retinue of cardboard teachers and parents, 'School of Rock' exists to show off the kids, and it does that exceedingly well."
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"The songs are rousing and fun, and the young cast attacks them with relish, and delivers them to us with amazing talent and enthusiasm."
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"It’s a well put together crowd pleaser. With the tirelessly entertaining Alex Brightman as Dewey Finn, a washed up slob who pretends to be a substitute teacher and in the process galvanizes his students into rock stars, the show is 'Matilda meets' 'Sister Act' on the road to 'The Music Man,' and tons of fun."
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"'School of Rock' keeps a smile plastered on your face for the entirety of its 2 1/2-hour running time...You could complain that the two main female parts are such tired, rhymes-with-witch cliches. Or you could sit back and enjoy a musical that reminds us that 'family-family entertainment' need not also be an insult to a grown-up's intelligence and good taste. 'School of Rock' may not be one for the history books, but it nonetheless has plenty of valuable lessons to teach."
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"The kids are really, really charming. And talented....The sunny easiness of the story and the cuteness of the kids is marred by two things. First, rampant gay stereotypes...And second, Patty is written as a one-noted witch...These flaws — and the very traditional staging and script — make the show feel cynical, like it's pandering to the audience's worst tendencies. If only it had been brave enough to break out of its own musical theater box."
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"The crowd-pleasing, upbeat musical 'School of Rock' opened with a wondrously rebellious spirit and a superb cast...While leaning a little bit too much on 'Stick It to the Man,' Webber turns in some perfectly solid mainstream rock-ish anthems...A heartwarming story and a stage full of pre-pubescent kids who know their way around an amp prove irresistible…Connor leads a crisp, snappy show that neither gets bogged down in irrelevant secondary stories or in easy manipulation."
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