The stage adaptation of the 2003 film School of Rock, about a wannabe rock star who works as a teacher and forms a rock band with his students, will open on Broadway next year, its producers said.

School of Rock – the Musical, which is set to open on December 6, 2015, will feature songs from the film and new music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and a book by Julian Fellowes, the creator of the TV period drama Downton Abbey.

“School of Rock is hugely about how music can empower kids,” Lloyd Webber, the composer of Cats, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera said in a statement announcing the musical.

The film, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Jack Black as the aspiring rocker Dewey Finn, grossed more than $131 million at the global box office.

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