The cast of Broadway's new musical "School of Rock" got the endorsement of the original Dewey Finn, Jack Black this past Sunday.
Black saw a matinee at the Winter Garden Theatre with his son and went backstage to high-five cast members and pose for pictures.
He embraced Alex Brightman, the actor who plays Dewey ? his old role ? and signed a guitar for actor Spencer Moses.
"It was so good. There were so many times I went, 'I could not have done it that well,'" he said, surrounded by thrilled kids. "You made me laugh. You made he cry. You made me rock."
The stage version of "School of Rock" stays close to the plot of the Jack Black-led 2003 film, in which a wannabe rocker enlists his fifth-graders to form a rock group and conquer the Battle of the Bands.
