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In 2009, the Royal Shakespeare Company announced its intent to stage a musical adaptation of the story Matilda, engaging Dennis Kelly as playwright, Tim Minchin as the composer and lyricist, Matthew Warchus as director, Chris Nightingale as orchestrator and music supervision, Rob Howell as set designer and Paul Kieve as illusionist and special effects creator. [8]
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.
Roald Dahl's classic children's book is now a movie musical on Netflix. Here are all the key differences between the original novel, the 1996 film, stage adaptation, and 2022 movie musical.
Nightingale said "The diversity of the songs is gloriously far-reaching, and my first job in writing the original score was to try and build a framework that might bind things together; find, create and extend common ground." [7] The soundtrack list to Matilda the Musical was released by Sony Masterworks and Netflix Music on 4 November 2022. [8]
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.
"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.
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]
The 66th BFI London Film Festival has set Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical as its Opening Night Gala. Directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham ...