Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has offered a glimpse of his latest musical, a stage adaptation of hit 2003 film comedy The School of Rock, with a 360-degree video of the new Broadway production.

Lloyd Webber, the composer of The Phantom of the Opera and Cats, announced last December he was bringing to the stage the movie about wannabe rockstar substitute teacher Dewey Finn, who forms a band with his young pupils.

Previews begin in New York in November and the show is set to open in December. It will feature songs from the movie, new music by Lloyd Webber and a bookby Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.

“It kind of takes me back to the time when I was able to write with children and work with children,” Lloyd Webber said of the new production at the launch of the promotional video. “It was a bit of fresh air, really.”

It was a bit of fresh air

The video shows Finn, played by Broadway actor Alex Brightman, with the young cast performing You’re in the Band in the classroom – a song where the teacher turns his students into a rock band. Viewers can scroll around the room, where the black boards have references to Lloyd Webber’s past musicals and the ceiling shows the lyrics for the song.

In the 2003 film, Jack Black plays Dewey Finn, a substitute teacher of a strict elementary private school, who turns it into a rock school.

Lloyd Webber said the video was shot in one take.

“It’s happening all around you, all in one go. It’s all in one take, you can’t edit it because everybody is always in a different position,” he said. “It was a great experiment.”

The School of Rock film, which starred Jack Black as Finn, grossed more than $131 million at box offices worldwide.