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oh my GOSH I love Matilda so much!! saw it for the second time tonight and so much more to unpick
the little themes from different songs coming in the background here and there!
just the sheer amount of choreography (and very complex too!) that the cast and especially the young cast have to learn!!
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Consider: Deaf West style Matilda
Hear me out: Matilda in BSL or ASL would actually be the greatest thing. It's like the show was made for sign
Headcanon:
Matilda is is profoundly deaf but comes from a hearing family
Miss Honey is deaf too, and maybe one or two of her parents were as well
She sees a lot of herself reflected in Matilda
Crunchem Hall was originally meant to be a safe space for deaf or HoH kids/kids with deaf or HoH family, but now
Trunchbull is pushing and oralist agenda
When kids start to fingerspell or sign, she reprimands them and has them speak instead (like the Latin recitation scene in DWSA)
Chokey especially sucks because the kids can't communicate by sign since no one can see them
Lavender is HoH and as spoken communication isn't her strong suit, she likes to express herself through loud clothes and a big personality
Bruce is hearing, so when he's sent off to Chokey it makes a lot of kids scared since it could be a lot worse for them as they'd be even more alone
Matilda's pushback means a lot to the kids at school because it might be the first time they see someone like them making real change
The fear and higher stakes exacerbates the importance of the kids' rebellion and the bravery that goes into it
Revolting Children is the coolest thing ever because all the kids stand up and very deliberately incorrectly fingerspell every. single. word.
And the song - and the rest of the show - is not just them standing up for their classmate, it's them standing up for their own identities and the identities of people they love
(And obviously, we must sneak Marlee Matlin in there somewhere)
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A production of Matilda where she's played by an adult woman, but the rest of the cast is exactly the sme.
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Before The Pandemic, I was a lighting technician on 'Matilda the Musical'. It was probably the most fun I had in my almost 20yr West End career... anyway, I finally got round to watching the film adaptation and it's absolutely fantastic.
Emma Thompson is chewing the scenery and then some as Miss Trunchball. How has she not won every award?! And the kids...wow. Just wow.
Watch it. Seriously, it's amazing.
Sneaky pic from a rehearsal - the lasers looked especially sexy.
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As the Matilda the musical fandom died a little at a certain point it made me sad that there was no longer audios on tumblr/YouTube of the matilda’s as I really love to listen to them and hear how different they are from each other.
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okay so i'm thinking of going to london somewhere in march/april and i really want to see a musical on the west end, anyone have any recommendations?
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Victoria Alsina performing on ITV’s This Morning 11/30/2022
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