Lowkey shocked by how much joy listening to MATILDA THE MUSICAL songs brought me

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  @MathewMcKenna · 2 years ago · pinned

  why was this all so sweet 😭

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• JE

  @jessicaable5095 · 2 years ago

  Bare in mind when Miss Honey sings about the monsters, she's not just talking about a horrible boss, she's singing about the woman who murdered her father and stole her home 😭

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  @orlastarburst · 2 years ago (edited)

  I’m honestly surprised Matthew managed to slip past watching MATILDA THE MUSICAL for so long

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  @gurglequeen433 · 2 years ago

  When they say hockey sticks, they're talking about field hockey.

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  @unicornclutter · 2 years ago

  tbh the book addresses Why the parents don't pull the kids out of school very well and its not said outright in the movie or musical but is still true, the Trunchbull is so cartoonishly evil when she does anything to the children that if a kid told a parent what she did theyd think it was a child exaggerating, if she just shouted at you itd be believable, but calling you a maggot, going into a while ridiculous speech, locking you in a diy iron maidon, throwing people out windows, if you tell your parent that at age 6 they think you have a big imagination not that your head mistress whos always so kind and reasonable when you see her is satan

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  @karabelle221 · 2 years ago

  Please do another one of these! I highly recommend School Song, Quiet, My House, and either The Hammer or The Smell Of Rebellion. School Song is an ensemble number with all the kids, Quiet is one of Matilda’s songs, My House is sung by Miss Honey (the nice teacher) and the last two are both sung by the Trunchbull. Honestly, all the songs in this are amazing and Tim Minchin is a lyrical genius - he also did the musical of Groundhog Day (which is also brilliant) and has lots of his own music

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  @trackpadsam · 2 years ago

  The boy singing Revolting Children for the movie, yeah Truchbull used him as a personal slave basically so-

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  @lexireese2502 · 2 years ago

  Please PLEASE react to “The School Song” from this musical it’s so clever and just so musically clever Tim Minchin truly outdid himself writing the music for this musical

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  @thea2166 · 2 years ago

  as a former british kid, british kids singing do give horror vibes

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  @JayietheRiverWarrior · 2 years ago

  Another commenter already talked about how the Trunchbull flies under the radar by being so ridiculous and absurd in her abuse of the kids that no adult believes them when they say their headmistress yeets a girl by the pigtails or forces a boy to eat an entire chocolate cake - though of course Matilda’s parents just don’t care.<br><br>The more sobering real-life context is that Matilda’s story seems to be based on Roald Dahl’s experiences in a British boarding school as a child. He goes into it a bit in his autobiography, he was in a boarding school in the 20’s and faced horribly strict and abusive treatment from the teachers and older students there. Of course, that treatment was more normalized in that time, and unlike Matilda he had no way of fighting back. That’s why I feel like his books resonate so much with kids - he really understood the ways a kid can be made to feel powerless in a world of adults, and he allowed his child characters to take back control of their lives in such a cathartic way.

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  @boowind4432 · 2 years ago

  When I Grow Up always makes me up, all the things kids dream about doing as an adult that most adults consider themselves “too grown up” to do, and then Ms Honey comes out and sings a verse as well to show even though she’s an adult she hasn’t got it all figured out either it’s just so sweet. And then the visuals of the adult versions of the kids running out onto the swings 😭

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• FO

  @foreverindecisivelol · 2 years ago

  I was part of a production of Matilda once and still remember some of the Revolting Children choreo. This whole musical has a very special place in my heart, I’ll always love it. I’m so glad you could find some joy in it as well

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