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Matilda won 7 Oliviers: Best New Musical, Best Director (Warchus), Best Actor in a Musical (Carvel), Best Actress in a Musical (accepted by four Matildas), Best Theatre Choreographer (Darling), Best Set Design (Howell) and Best Sound Design (Baker). This was a record number for any show in the event's 36-year history.
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, or simply Matilda the Musical, or Matilda, is a 2022 fantasy musical film directed by Matthew Warchus from a screenplay by Dennis Kelly, based on the stage musical of the same name by Tim Minchin and Kelly, which in turn was based on the 1988 novel Matilda by Roald Dahl.
Dennis Kelly is a British writer and producer. He has worked for theatre, television, and film. His play DNA, published in 2007 and first performed in 2008, became a core set-text for GCSE in 2010 [1] and has been studied by approximately 400,000 students each year. [2]
All versions of Matilda—the 1988 novel, the 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito, the West End/Broadway stage film, and the 2022 Netflix movie musical—differ from each other in key ways.
In Matilda The Musical, the Wormwoods move to Spain to evade members of the Russian Mafia, to who Mr. Wormwood sold faulty cars. Matilda Tells The Story About Miss Honey's Parents.
The School Library Journal wrote "You can’t help but love songs with double meanings like the oh-so appropriately named 'Revolting Children'". [3] The New York Times deemed it a "rousing final number" [2] and "an anthem of liberation", suggesting "which Mr. Darling has choreographed with a wink at Bill T. Jones’s work on “Spring Awakening”". [4]
"When I Grow Up" was the first song that Tim Minchin wrote for Matilda, attempting to find a tone for the entire musical, drawing inspiration from his child. [1] He also drew inspiration from a childhood memory in which the adults on his grandfather's farm would fiddle with the padlock to a gate, whereas Minchin went out of his way to hurdle the gate, promising to himself to never open the ...
"Matilda: The Musical" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, in the auditorium of Ridgewood High School, 602 Johnson St. Tickets are $10 and available online.