The Phantom kills the leading man, sets the opera house on fire and escapes with Christine. This opera is actually a complicated plot devised by the Phantom to kidnap Christine after finding out that she’s in love with Raoul, the Vicomte de Changy.Ĭhristine, whose operatic triumph was orchestrated by the phantom, knows that during the performance she will be taken away to the phantom’s lair under the theater. Does Tim Minchin have so many brains they’re coming out of the ends of his fingers? Anything seems possible.Christine Daaé, once an obscure ballerina, is given a lead singing role in “Don Juan”, an opera written by the Phantom of the Opera, a disfigured man who is obsessed with the lovely, young woman. But with Minchin’s lyric lines as arabesques around the scenes, the constant surprises in his rhyming and the explosions of orchestration that give the big numbers such impact, it is something else. As a scripted adaptation of Dahl’s story, Matilda in both its stage and screen versions would be poignant, pointed and fun. "Not to detract from anyone else’s good work, but Minchin’s spiky, precise numbers, their lyrics clear and lacerating even in the mass choruses, are key to Matilda’s enduring magic. Everyone is turned up to a glorious eleven."
"Without exception, the actors leap across the same bar. Clever staging gives way to visual extravagance." "From the moment it begins, with a series of glowingly lit babies in cribs “singing” about how their besotted parents think they’re all geniuses, it is clear that Warchus and the team have not merely adapted the theater musical but rethought it, top to bottom. The exact Netflix date for the UK is to be announced.Īlso check out the new trailer and poster for Matilda, and news about the new Matilda soundtrack.īook tickets to the live stage show – Matilda The Musical – at the Cambridge Theatre in London The movie premieres on Netflix in the US on Christmas Day, 25 December. Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical – The Movie is in cinemas from 25 November 2022 in the UK, and 9 December 2022 in the US. The screenplay by Dennis Kelly is based on his Tony-winning stage book, with Tim Minchin’s smash-hit score.Īn impressive cast includes Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull, Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough as Mr and Mrs Wormwood, Lashana Lynch as Miss Honey, and Alisha Weir as Matilda. Matthew Warchus brings to the screen the show he directed for the RSC in 2010, and which is still going strong in the West End.
The movie marked the opening of this year’s BFI London Film Festival, and is based on the smash-hit West End show Matilda The Musical at the Cambridge Theatre. Reviews are coming in following the world premiere tonight, 5 October 2022, in Leicester Square of the movie version of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical.
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