TIM MINCHIN PROFESSIONAL

TIM MINCHIN PROFESSIONAL

These awards recognise excellence for theatre throughout the UK and are selected by a group of professional theatre critics. The production was sold out over Christmas and throughout January until the run ended on January 30th.Ī few days before the end of the run Matilda was awarded the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical. The audience rose delightedly to their feet at the end and the reviews that followed in the national press were wonderful. Finally Matilda, A Musical opened on the 9th December with the industry press in heavy attendance. The previews continued for a month, with everyone working hard to tighten it up and tweak it into perfection. Photo by Kathryn Sinnottįollowing the dress rehearsal on the 6th November 2010 the show was performed to its first public audience, three days later, on the 9th at the Courtyard theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon and was extremely well received. The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon. The final workshop production took place at the end of June, further adjustments were made, and rehearsals started in September 2010. Warchus, Kelly, Minchin, RSC dramaturge Jeanie O’Hare, and legendary musical supervisor Chris Nightingale spent an intense two months renovating the script. Over the new year big changes took place, characters were discarded, songs were binned, scenes were conflated, and inevitable crisis talks ensued, but not until Tim returned from Australia in March did the final push begin. A significant restructuring and a short period of rewriting was undertaken in the autumn, and – with Tim on tour in Australia – a second workshop took place in November. Working from Kelly’s script adaptation, Tim wrote his first draft in the middle of 2009, with the first workshop production taking place in London in September. Tim had little hesitation: not only was the chance to write for the RSC impossible to resist, but as a life long fan of Dahl, he had – coincidentally – attempted to secure the stage rights to Matilda ten years earlier, when he was writing for theatre in Perth, WA. In December 2008, director Matthew Warchus approached Tim about writing the music and lyrics for a stage musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s famous book, to be produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company. Eventually she decides the grown-ups should be taught a lesson and in the process discovers her supernatural powers Chapter One: Stratford-Upon-Avon Matilda fights against the injustices at home and at school. At school things are no better as despite the care and support of her teacher, the lovely Miss Honey, Matilda has to contend with the terrifying headmistress Miss Trunchbull who rules the school with cruelty and fear. She spends most of her time reading books from the library astonishingly quickly, whilst they watch the telly and Mr Wormwood sells dodgy used cars. Matilda’s parents, Mr and Mrs Wormwood, have no time for her and treat her as a nuisance. It is the story of a very bright and rebellious little girl, with special powers. Roald Dahl’s children’s novel Matilda was first published in 1988 with illustrations by Quentin Blake. Tim with the Stratford-upon-Avon Matildas: Kerry Ingram, Adrianna Bertola and Josie Griffiths (Original production cast from Stratford-upon-Avon November 2010) Matilda This version will be available for a limited time prior to the official release by MTI of Matilda the Musical Junior Version (currently in development). performers aged 16 years or younger) in the UK and Ireland ONLY from 4th March, 2014. Matilda the Musical (in 20 minutes) will be released for schools and amateur youth groups (i.e. Information regarding the performance rights for Matilda The Musical can be found here. But as a head-start here they are on Twitter: and Teachers and children will find many creative writing resources on the RSC Education Department’s interactive website. It also has slightly less Minchin-centric information, than this page, in the form of videos, cast and production information, clips of the cast recordings, all their social media accounts and more. The RSC’s Matilda The Musical website has tickets available for the West End and the UK & Ireland Tour. Stratford-Upon-Avon | West End, London | UK & Ireland Tour | Broadway, New York | US Tour | Australia | Toronto, Canada | Auckland, New Zealand | International Tour SKIP TO: Matilda | Photos | Videos | Quotes/Reviews | Awards | Press | Below is the story of how Tim and Dennis Kelly helped turn Roald Dahl’s famous children’s book Matilda into a hit musical.

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