NEW YORK — The cast of Broadway's new musical "School of Rock" has gotten the endorsement of someone they've desperately wanted to impress — Jack Black.
Black saw a matinee Sunday and went backstage to high-five cast members and thank them.
"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.
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Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press
