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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.
Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.It was published by Jonathan Cape.The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
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 ...
At the end of the book, Matilda's family announces they're moving to Spain, as the British legal system has caught up with Mr. Wormwood's illegal activities at his car dealership.
David Cote, in Time Out New York, wondered whether the show was too English for Broadway tastes; he wrote, "Matilda is a kids' musical, not a musical that happens to be about a kid. As such, its attractions may be limited to younger spectators and die-hard Dahl fans. That would be a pity, since Matilda is wickedly smart and wildly fun". [119]
“My agent sent me an e-mail telling me, ‘You have a new audition for this new HBO TV series,’” says Matilda De Angelis, over Zoom from Rome. The 25-year-old Italian actress, born in ...
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]