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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.
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]
Alisha Weir (born 26 September 2009) is an Irish actress and singer, best known for her leading roles in the films Matilda the Musical (2022) and Abigail (2024); for the latter, she received a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer nomination. In April 2024, Weir was named in Forbes 30 Under 30. [1]
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.
A film adaptation of the musical, Matilda the Musical, was released in 2022. In 2003, Matilda was listed at number 74 in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time. [1] In 2012, Matilda was ranked number 30 among all-time best children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a US monthly ...
Matilda the Musical is already out in cinemas in the UK, and will be released in US theaters on December 9, 2022. If you'd prefer to watch from home, ...
In Chapter 6 of Dahl's Matilda, the young girl hatches a plan to get back at her father for calling her a "liar" and a "cheat."Matilda knows that her father takes pride in his thick and dark locks ...
Kiely played Matilda at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End debut of Matilda the Musical. After rehearsing the show since August, she made her debut on 27 October 2011. [ 4 ] In April 2012 Sophia won an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical along with her co-stars.