Matilda the Musical
Opening Night: April 11, 2013
Closing: January 1, 2017
Theater: Shubert Theatre
Roald Dahl’s much-loved story bursts into life on stage in this magical new musical version by Dennis Kelly with songs by award-winning musician and comedian Tim Minchin.
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April 11, 2013
As my performance of Matilda, the dark, delirious musical sailing on to Broadway from success in London, was letting out the other night, an enormous crowd swarmed in the street, straining to get a look at Tom Hanks as he exited his mediocre show, Lucky Guy , next door. All this pandemonium accomplished, however, was to point up the fact that the most engaging theatrical evenings on Broadway of the past few years – from Once to The Book of Mormon – need no stars to work their magic. The thrill is all indoors.
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‘My mummy says I’m a lousy little worm,’ are the first words we hear from Matilda, a child whose nitwit parents despise her with the same zeal other mums and dads use to celebrate their spawn.
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The new Broadway musical “Matilda,” based on Roald Dahl’s 1988 children’s fantasy novel, was originally conceived by the Royal Shakespeare Company as family-friendly Christmastime entertainment, not unlike the cheesy and overly sentimental shows that flood New York each holiday season.
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April 11, 2013
Dwelling among us, ladies and gentlemen, is a super-race of tiny entertainment machines. Disguised as children, they sing, act, dance, tumble and generally bedazzle, as if each of them has spent a whole lifetime or two in show biz.
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April 11, 2013
Rejoice, my theatergoing comrades. The children’s revolution has arrived on these shores, and it is even more glorious than we were promised. Rush now, barricade stormers of culture, to the Shubert Theater, and join the insurrection against tyranny, television, illiteracy, unjust punishment and impoverished imaginations, led by a 5-year-old La Pasionaria with a poker face and an off-the-charts I.Q.
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