‘School of Rock’ child stars marry 22 years after Jack Black movie

A rock and roll romance.

Two stars from the movie “School of Rock” have tied the knot more than two decades after meeting in the beloved 2003 film.

Angelo Massagli and Caitlin Hale were just 10 years old when they first crossed paths at an audition for “School of Rock,” which follows Jack Black as a struggling, never-been rock and roller who builds a rock band from a class in primary school children.

Hale played the early pig-tailed back-up singer Marta, or “Blondie” as Black’s character referred to her. Massagli took the role of Frankie, also known as “Tough Guy”, one of the band’s security detail.

Massagli was amazed after watching Hale’s audition, he said New York Times.

The young actress wowed producers with a show-stopping rendition of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” from “Gypsy,” changing the lyrics to be about the film’s director, five-time Oscar nominee Richard Linklater.

“I was like, ‘wow, that girl is really, really, really different,'” Massagli said.

When a nervous Massagli was spontaneously asked to sing a song at the audition in New York City, he sang the only tune he knew by heart: “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne.

After booking the gig, the pair met again a year later when filming began in New York. According to Hale, all of the young actors playing peewee rock and rollers became fast friends, bonding over actual school days on stage and trips to Benihana. Their mothers also became close, with Black reportedly joining the kids for lunch and playing games between takes.

Hale and Massagli said that neither was in love with the other during filming.

After production was completed and the film was released, the group of children remained in touch through a long-running group chat.

Massagli and Hale ended up leaving the show. Massagli is now a lawyer and works as a music product advisor for TikTok. Hale is an OB-GYN sonographer.

The couple reconnected in 2018 while they were both pursuing degrees at universities in Florida. They grabbed lunch for old times’ sake and sent a selfie to their mothers, who had been close by during the shoot.

“We thought it was something like that,” Massagli recalled. “But we just kept grabbing dinners and going out on the weekends. We thought, ‘there’s something brewing here.’

“Even though it wasn’t romantic, the familiarity that we had and our families had when we were younger really cut through some of the early relationship barriers,” he added.

Hale knew Massagli was playoff shortly after reconnecting.

“I knew very early on,” Hale recalled. “I actually said to one of my close friends, I remember I was in an Uber on the way down to Miami one weekend and we were going out and I was like, ‘I think I’m going to get married with this guy’.”

That same year, Massagli gave Hale permission to “steer down” at his Miami home while he was out of town for a week to save her from commuting from Fort Lauderdale to Miami, where she was part of a residency program. Massagli returned to find that Hale had moved in completely.

In 2019, the couple moved to Brooklyn. Massagli popped the question in June 2023 in front of the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

After Hale said yes, the couple celebrated with dinner at Nino’s, an Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side, and champagne at the Carlyle.

The wedding took place on January 4th at Park Château Estate & Gardens in East Brunswick, NJ. A Versailles-like venue, the estate was the perfect place for the couple, who said they wanted to “go all out.”

As for the music, Hale and Massagli entered their reception to “Through the Wire” by Kanye West before dancing their first dance to Chaka Khan’s “Through the Fire.”

They had specific marching orders for the DJ: Play songs that felt like “if Studio 54 never closed,” Massagli said.

In a pointed callback to “School of Rock,” the pair danced to “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks.

They were joined by nine of their co-stars who were on hand to celebrate their friends’ union.

Jack Black was unable to attend as he was working on a film. But Hale said the star “was so sweet and generous with her words and definitely remembers it privately.”

The former child star also had a sweet reunion on the dance floor with the other “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 kind of an ad lib in the song and we all hit it,” she shared. “We looked at each other and we’re like, ‘It just happened. We still have it.'”

Wedding guests were treated to a three-tiered wedding cake, cannoli on the dance floor and a food truck handing out McDonald’s on the way out.