#matilda west end

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Matilda movie is coming out so have a Matilda post

[bombateazer]

*NOT MY AUDIO, will take down if requested *Please do not leave hateful comments, thank you

[someday-becomes-somehow]

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!!

[royalswille]

does When I Grow Up make you cry or are you normal

[terrible-musical-theatre-ideas]

A production of Matilda where she's played by an adult woman, but the rest of the cast is exactly the sme.

[roaringroa]

just watched the brazilian production of matilda the musical and to the surprise of no one i cried. to the surprise of some, 4 times.

[improperingenue]

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)

[gaylotusthatexists]

more movie musicals like matilda please and thank you <3

[thoughtsaboutsnape]

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.

[shesmyevangeline]

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?

[bombateazer]

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. - *NOT MY AUDIO, will take down if requested

*Please do not leave hateful comments, thank you

[veilingofthesun]

Lauren Byrne performing 'My House' at West End Live 2023.

[hippophobia]

BROOCE!

[thrashntreasure]

Ep56 Ripping Farts and Gripping Hearts w/ Lesli Margherita! (Anywhere!)

Leslians Assemble! We're joined by the Queen of Broadway… Nutcases, THE stunning Lesli Margherita! This week, the star of Broadway's Matilda joins us as things get tantalizing once AW drops 101 fart puns… Plus we discuss Hellion, Zorro, Matilda, and heaps, heaps more in one of our silliest episodes yet! www.twitter.com/queenlesli

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Actor of the Week: Connor Lewis

Actor of the Week: Connor Lewis from @MatildaMusical 💙

Connor is currently performing in the West End adaptation of Matilda the Musical Connor trained at Arts Educational Schools, London. His credits while training include Dupree in Cry Baby and Once on This Island. His theatre credits include: Dance Captain (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Gaiety Theatre) and Let’s Face the Music (Royal Albert…

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Do you have a full master post of like your cowgirls lore, how they met, their backgrounds and situations they got in ect. I absolutely am obsessed with them.

Why thank you so so much

I’ve talked so much about them on here, but it’s scattered, and quite a lot of it has evolved lore wise

So let’s make this that master post:

Basic lore for this universe:

Set in a non specific time of the Wild West (implied to be the tail end of the era)

But with a magical twist. The folklore of things that are not quite human living alongside humanity is real, and they are hunted for their skin. It is a known fact that shapeshifters exist, and they are illegal. Though some peoples “magic blood” don’t always show itself as Shapeshifting, it can also appear as accelerated healing or acute senses. These people are generally referred to as beasts or animals

These transformations are hard on “beasts,” they take up a lot of strength to preform them, and if you’re injured in one form, it can take time before you’re able to switch. If you’re injured enough it can be permanent.

Brunette: Flora Guerra

She was born to an Italian immigrant family with strict parents, as well as the youngest daughter to five other children. When she was 16, her parents arranged a courtship with a much older man. Flora was furious, this rage culminated in her first transformation, unfortunately this happened in front of the man as well as the rest of her family. They immediately turned their backs on her, disgusted with what she was. Terrified, she fled. She hopped on trains and resorted to petty theft to make her way west, to a land she hoped would be freer than the life she left behind!

Her first big brush with the law was when she stole her horse Bandit from a man who was treating him poorly. She fled the scene but only after shooting one officer. (Thus her first ever bounty was for murder)

Her main way of making money was seducing men and robbing them blind while they were distracted by her beauty, unfortunately she picked up the wrong trick one day, a notorious gang leader, who instead of shooting her outright, brought a then 17 year old Flora back to his gang. She became “his girl” and used her looks to help him get what he wanted.

In the gang however there was one man who was like her! He could turn into a wolf, like how she could turn into a jackalope, they formed a bond, and when the gang fell apart, he was the one to get her out safely.

Ginger: Mattie (Matilda) Hayes

Mattie is the eldest daughter of her odd family. Her father and mother immigrated from Ireland, her mother dying during childbirth of her youngest child, Ben. Because of this, Mattie became the sole caretaker of him, very much raising him herself. The entire family were beasts of some sort.

Mattie could turn into a fox from a young age, her brother as well started to transform around the same time. (Though he was a cougar)

Their father, was also odd, in more ways than just beastly. He was a sour old man with a mean streak, drink had a mighty hold on him. After an incident that broke the camels back, involving hateful words and a smashed beer bottle, Mattie had enough. In a fit of rage she set fire to her father’s barn, in the aftermath She packed her bags and set to leave. She tried to get Ben to come, but he refused and told her to never come back. So she listened.

At 18, her and her horse June travelled the desert, finding odd jobs, pulling off some robberies, and failing at pickpocketing, this left her with quite a price on her head.

After a couple years of travelling by herself, the way she preferred, she ran into Flora for the first time.

First meeting:

They met as their animals first, Mattie was trying to hunt Flora but got startled by her horns.

Later on, she was trying to rob a man on the side of the road. Only for Flora to swoop in at the last moment and get the trick instead. (By “saving” the man, but picking his wallet a moment later)

That night, Mattie was nursing her hurt ego by drinking her weight at a saloon, but alas she couldn’t even enjoy her whiskey in peace, when the woman who stole her prize sat down at the bar with her.

Pissed off Mattie tried to storm away but bumped into an angry drunk, this turned into a full on bar fight. Which Flora dragged her away from and offered to patch up her wounds

They stuck together after that. But didn’t become lovers till much later

Flora fell first, but Mattie fell harder.

JESUS this is long I’m sorry

Anyways main plot:

Word gets to Mattie that her father is dead, and her younger brother has resorted to a life crime. He is being set to hang once he’s caught. She sets out to find him.

Flora’s old gang has picked up on her location, and they are hunting her down. Scared for Mattie’s safety she works with her old friend to figure out how to keep them off their trail.

The two of them have also been found out to be beasts by the law, so on top of being wanted because of their crimes, they are also being stalked by beast hunters.

Everything seems to be going okay, Mattie finds Ben, and together her and Flora help him get away from the noose, they look after him and bring them to their camp. They thought they were evading the hunters as well as the gang.

What they didn’t know was that Ben still held a grudge for Mattie leaving. He blames her for their father’s ultimate death.

He rats them out, not only to the hunters, but to Flora’s old gang. He figured that if he gave them their location, the law would let him go. They took the bargain.

The hunters and the gang ambush them, Ben leading the way.

Flora gets injured during the fight in her human form. Ben nearly kills her.

The siblings go head to head in their beastly forms, and against all odds, the fox beats the lion, killing the last remaining member of her family.

Flora, incredibly injured, cannot transform, and for reasons unknown to Mattie, she cannot switch back.

Years pass, Flora has a limp that doesn’t go away. She is never able to be her animal again. And Mattie, well, she didn’t get too injured that day, though it seems like something broke inside because she lost her human form.

They move north together, and live a peaceful life, even though it’s not quite normal. What with Mattie being a fox and all that.

A decade or so after everything, they’ve been out of the life for a long time, is when Mattie finally finds herself again. Though she’s very different to what she used to be, her human form had changed, more fox like and more wild, though still her. She can only take that form for bits at a time, but it’s something. They’re happy

If you read all of this… damn thank you!!