A rock and roll romance.
Two stars from the film “School of Rock” have tied the knot greater than 20 years after assembly on the beloved 2003 movie.
Angelo Massagli and Caitlin Hale have been simply 10 years previous once they first crossed paths on the audition for “School of Rock,” which follows Jack Black as a destitute, never-was rock and curler who builds a rock band from a category of elementary faculty children.
Hale performed precocious pig-tailed back-up singer Marta, or “Blondie” as Black’s character referred to her. Massagli took the a part of Frankie, a ok a the “Tough Guy,” one of many band’s safety element.
Massagli was left awestruck after seeing Hale’s audition, as he instructed the New York Instances.
The younger actress wowed producers with a show-stopping rendition of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” from “Gypsy,” switching up the lyrics to be in regards to the film’s director, five-time Oscar nominee Richard Linklater.
“I was like, ‘wow, that girl’s really, really, really something else,’” Massagli mentioned.
When spontaneously requested to sing a track on the audition in New York Metropolis, a nervous Massagli sang the one tune he knew by coronary heart: “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne.
After reserving the gig, the pair met once more one yr later when filming started in New York. In keeping with Hale, all the younger actors enjoying the peewee rock and rollers grew to become quick associates, bonding throughout precise faculty time on set and journeys to Benihana. Their mothers grew shut too, and Black reportedly joined the children for lunch and performed video games between takes.
Hale and Massagli mentioned that neither had a crush on the opposite throughout filming.
After manufacturing wrapped and the film was launched, the cohort of children remained in contact by a long-running group chat.
Massagli and Hale ended up leaving appearing behind. Now a lawyer, Massagli works as a music product counsel for TikTok. Hale is an OB-GYN sonographer.
The pair reconnected in 2018 whereas they have been each pursuing levels at universities in Florida. They grabbed lunch for previous instances’ sake and despatched a selfie to their mothers, who had been shut throughout filming.
“We thought that was kind of it,” Massagli recalled. “But we just kept grabbing dinners and going out for the weekends. We were like, ‘something’s brewing here.’”
“Even though it wasn’t romantic, that familiarity we had and our families had when we were younger, really cut through some of those early relationship hurdles,” he added.
Hale knew that Massagli was endgame shortly after reconnecting.
“I knew very early,” Hale remembered. “I actually said to one of my close friends, I remember being in an Uber on the way down to Miami one weekend and we were going out and I was like, ‘I think I’m gonna marry this guy.’”
That very same yr, Massagli gave Hale permission “to crash” at his Miami house whereas he was out of city for per week to avoid wasting her from commuting from Fort Lauderdale to Miami, the place she was a part of a residency program. Massagli returned to seek out Hale had absolutely moved in.
In 2019, the pair relocated to Brooklyn. Massagli popped the query in June 2023 in entrance of the Temple of Dendur on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork.
After Hale mentioned sure, the couple celebrated with dinner at Nino’s, an Italian restaurant on the Higher East Facet, and Champagne on the Carlyle.
The marriage occurred on Jan. 4 on the Park Château Property & Gardens in East Brunswick, NJ. A Versailles-like venue, the property was the proper spot for the couple who mentioned they needed to “go all out.”
As for the music, Hale and Massagli entered their reception to “Through the Wire” by Kanye West earlier than dancing their first dance to Chaka Khan’s “Through the Fire.”
They’d particular marching orders for the DJ: Play songs that felt like “if Studio 54 never closed,” Massagli mentioned.
In a pointed callback to “School of Rock,” the couple danced to “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks.
They have been joined by 9 of their castmates, who have been available to have fun their associates’ union.
Jack Black couldn’t attend as he was engaged on a film. However Hale mentioned the star “was so nice and generous with his words and definitely commemorated it privately.”
The previous youngster star additionally had a candy reunion on the dance ground with the opposite “School of Rock” backup singers, which she described as a “time capsule moment.”
“We were just dancing together to some old-school disco and then there was some sort of ad lib in the song and we all just hit it,” she shared. “We looked at each other and we’re like, ‘That just happened. We still got it.’”
Marriage ceremony visitors have been handled to a three-tiered marriage ceremony cake, cannoli on the dance ground and a meals truck handing out McDonald’s on their manner out.
