Watch now: Andrew Lloyd Webber releases interactive School of Rock video

Like a Broadway show, where the audiences’ gaze can focus on anything onstage, the video for the musical’s “You’re in the Band” allows users to fully navigate the classroom where the School of Rock group is assembled. “So it was a great experiment, we had a very good, fun day filming it”, said Webber. It’s all in one take, you can’t edit it because everybody is always in a different position.

Viewers can choose to follow Finn as he runs around the real New York City schoolroom singing at the students, or simply turn the camera up to the ceiling for a lyric video complete with guitar chords. “You have to stage not only for what’s going on behind you, in front of you, around you, but above you and below you”. To get the full 3D effect, you need to watch in Chrome in the Youtube app on an iOS or Android.

Lloyd Webber is best known as the composer of such long-running musicals as The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita.

Previews begin in New York in November and the show is set to open in December.

Jack Black inspired thousands of kids to learn an instrument and join a band with his staring performance in the 2003 movie production of School of Rock, but now a new musical adaption of the film hopes to inspire a new generation of rockers.

In the video, Dewey Finn, a failed rocker who takes a job as a substitute teacher at a prep school, goes from student to student teaching them their respective instruments.

Webber noted, “The whole thing about School of Rock is that it’s about kids and kids being empowered with music”. Based on the smash hit 2003 film of the same title, School of Rock – The Musical will feature music from the movie, as well as an original score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Glenn Slater, with a book by Julian Fellowes and direction by Laurence Connor (currently represented on Broadway by Les Miserables).