West End Musical
Matilda The Musical Tickets
Extraordinary. Rebellious. Absolutely wonderful.
The Story
Matilda the Musical — London
Cambridge Theatre, Earlham Street
Olivier Awards —
a West End record
Matilda the Musical holds the record for the most Olivier Awards ever won by a West End musical — seven in total. Adapted from Roald Dahl’s much-loved novel by playwright Dennis Kelly, with a superb score by the Australian comedian Tim Minchin, it is a show of quite extraordinary wit, energy and heart.
Matilda Wormwood is a prodigiously intelligent five-year-old stuck in a household that barely notices her. Her father, a gobby used-car salesman, dismisses her. Her mother, obsessed with ballroom dancing, ignores her. While the rest of the family watches television, Matilda devours books from the local library. When she finally starts school at Crunchem Hall, she finds the pupils living in terror of their headmistress, the formidable Miss Trunchbull.
“A work of genius — funny, angry, dramatic, and the best British musical in years.”
Miss Trunchbull — played with gleeful menace by a male actor — is one of the most deliciously villainous characters on the London stage: a sadistic tyrant who locks children in The Chokey for the slightest infraction. Against her, Matilda finds an unlikely ally in her kind class teacher Miss Honey — and discovers she has some rather remarkable powers of her own.
Tim Minchin’s score is a joy: sharp, witty, emotionally generous, and full of songs that burrow deep into your memory. The RSC production is inventive and spectacular. But at its heart, Matilda is a story about the power of stories — and the extraordinary things that happen when you refuse to accept the world as it is.
Notable Songs
Naughty Revolting Children When I Grow Up Quiet My House Miracle PatheticPress Reviews
A work of genius — the best British musical in years.The Guardian
Funny, clever, gloriously anarchic and deeply moving.The Times
Matilda is a miracle — joyful, angry and utterly original.Evening Standard
The kind of musical that comes along once in a generation.Time Out
Matilda Tickets
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32-34 Earlham Street, Seven Dials
London WC2H 9HU
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