Class Is in Session! Jenn Gambatese Starts Performances in Broadway's School of Rock

She's in the band! Broadway alum Jenn Gambatese begins performances in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock—The Musical on August 9. She succeeds Sierra Boggess as Principal Rosalie Mullins; Boggess played her final performance on August 8 before departing for Paris, France to play Christine Daaé in the Tony-winning composer’s The Phantom of the Opera.

Gambatese originated the Broadway roles of Jane in Tarzan and Natalie in All Shook Up, played Glinda in the first national tour of Wicked and was also on Broadway in Hairspray, Is He Dead?, A Year with Frog and Toad and Footloose.

Currently in performances at the Winter Garden Theatre, School of Rock is based on the 2003 film of the same name, featuring music from the movie, as well as an original score by Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, a book by Julian Fellowes and direction by Laurence Connor. The show follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn a few extra bucks by posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight-A students into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. While teaching these pint-sized prodigies what it means to truly rock, Dewey falls for the school’s beautiful, but uptight headmistress, helping her rediscover the wild child within.

The cast also currently includes Alex Brightman, Spencer Moses and Mamie Parris.