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chaotic-theatrical-weaver · 1 year

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Don’t cry, I am here, little girl...

#matilda #matilda the musical #escapologist matilda #i'm here matilda #hey don’t cry

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deaf-westies · 1 year

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CODA and SODA characters of the month!

Our CODA character of the month is Nina Rosario from In the Heights and our SODA character of the month is the Escapologist from Matilda!

CODA Nina becomes much more afraid of being a disappointment to her DHH parents. Her signer represents the pressure she feels to succeed and her struggles negotiating her own identity as a child of different worlds.

She sings “Breathe” with a very anxious, distant signer behind her, but can’t breathe when she reaches the bridge and has to start signing for herself from there onwards.

Sometimes they appear to be arguing and Nina’s signer will sign “you” at her while the sung line has “I” or “me.” (”They are all counting on me/you to succeed,” “I/You am/are the one who made it out, the one who always made the grade, but maybe I/you should have just stayed home,” “I/you got every scholarship,” “How do I/you tell them why I’m/you’re coming back home?”)

Nina also SimComs the things her community tells her (considering that she has an actual signer, this shouldn’t dilute anything).

Benny holds her signer and lets her rest during the second verse of “Sunrise.”

I don’t have any other ideas as of now, but anyone else is free to contribute!

SODA Escapologist is so, so, so much more protective of his family, with a signer who serves to represent just that.

When he tells the Acrobat, “Patience, my love,” he holds her hands tenderly and embraces her sadly.

His signer is hesitant to announce the trick they’re performing and puts on a brave front before doing so. He is elated to announce that it’s been canceled, but signs “no” repeatedly when his sister-in-law forces them to perform it, and then weeps inconsolably at his wife’s death before moving away from the Escapologist the slightest bit.

During “I’m Here,” the Escapologist is so shocked and remorseful to see how his daughter’s been abused that he doesn’t speak until he makes his speech about how he will stop her aunt.

The Escapologist and his signer appear when the Trunchbull is driven out, standing in front of the chalkboard in ghostly light to say, “Agatha, this is Magnus...” (this might also add credence to the interpretation that Magnus’ spirit is involved to an extent).

#mod ellie #In The Heights #ith #nina rosario #coda character of the month #matilda #matilda the musical #escapologist matilda #magnus honey #soda character of the month

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ofnailbatsandaxefives · 1 year

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the Acrobat and the Escapologist (Matilda the Musical 2022)

#gif set #my stuff #my edits #not my favorite but it's 1:30 am and i've been at it for a while and nothing seems to be satisfying me #but i also didn't want to feel like i've just wasted my time all night #any ways the coloring on this in the film is absolutely gorgeous to begin with #i just wanted to try and enhance it up some #not sure if i was successful in doing that #matilda the musical #the acrobat #the escapologist #okay this seems to look better on the app/mobile than on desktop

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lemonwisp · 7 months

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I keep making memes about the Matilda musical (but most only make sense if you know the cast)

#for context #River plays Bruce who is a king costume during miracle #I play the acrobat and Brady plays the escapologist so we have some awkward scenes #aka we have to be all romantic #also while we do it my partner is on stage because they are Mrs Phelps #the Owen Wilson memes are because I like Owen Wilson #Owen Wilson #the Reece shearsmith memes are because I like Reece shearsmith #reece shearsmith #Matilda #matilda the musical #theater kid #theater #theatre

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yellowhearther0 · 1 year

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hi gang ^_^

#sagittarius.txt #today was. a day.#couldve been better but like. shrugs #we watched some of matilda!! and i sobbed!!!!!!#'why are you crying' 'the acrobat and the escapologist story got to me alright'

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cutebisexualmess · 1 year

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I just watched the new Matilda musical and omg

its obviously not the same as the actual musical but it was amazing. It bought back all the cool memories of going to the show when I was around 8 or 9 for my birthday, it was just idk nostalgic? I forgot how much I love these songs and how cool the parts about the escapologist and the acrobat were

#omg how cool all the shadows were #the acrobat and escapologist was one of my favourite parts #also when it played when I grow up again in the credits?(idk can you even call it that?)#I just made me remember the curtain call for that #like I despise loud noises but 90% of the time audience cheers and clapping is an amazing sound #it just is a different experience for me #matilda was something I held very close to my heart as a kid #not that anybody cares #but it made me really happy

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hauntedradiotower · 1 year

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characters doomed by the narrative this, characters haunted by the narrative that. What about narratives that are doomed by the characters? What about Matilda Wormwood? She didn’t like her story, but did she roll over and take it? NO she kicked down the fourth wall with mischief, intelligence, kindness, and genre awareness. She’s the ultimate escapologist. Truly a role model for kids everywhere.

#your fave could never #tbh most of my faves could also never #feral bookworm children everywhere RISE UP #of course you could argue that she was ultimately blessed by the narrative #but it's fun to think of a bit of reality-warping 4th wall breaking chaos #Matilda Wormwood #Matilda the Musical

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mydarlingdearestdead · 11 months

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You know the Escapologist and Acrobat story from Matilda The Musical?

Now think about it, where have you heard those descriptions before?

I don't know about you but but I think it's just Kaz and Inej fanfiction

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night-ah-ahks · 9 months

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thinking about how parrotduo is so “My House” from Matilda coded,

specifically this part (jaiden as miss honey, roier as the escapologist singing to bobby):

the whole song is very q!jaiden coded in particular (young woman left with no family that takes comfort in her quaint secluded home)

#I want to do a cover of this song in cosplay #And sing the male part in Spanish because #AAAAA #anyways #qsmp #qsmp bobby #qsmp jaiden #qsmp roier #q!jaiden #q!roier

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b1ttersweetzomb1e · 9 months

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Headcanons of Matilda: The Musical that are canon in my heart

⚠️Warning: spoilers ahead!!⚠️

Matilda is a trans girl

Just reminding: this is just a headcanon. You might use as an argument that the doctor said Matilda was a girl right when she was born, but, as a transgender person myself, I was perfectly able to see the fact that her father wanted a boy so desperately as a metaphor about the bizarre cisgender expectations parents puts on newborns. I think her mom does call her Matilda and uses she/her pronouns but not because she's an ally or something similar, but just because she neglects her child at the point of not putting effort to remember anything about Matilda, including her gender assigned at birth. So, when Matilda keeps correcting her father saying that she's a girl, her mother then just talks about Matilda as she's a cis girl, because that's what she believes while talking about it. The end of the movie, when her father finally admits that she's a girl in fact, makes this headcanon even more meaningful to my mind.

Matilda is neurodivergent

This is an old one. Although I've seen a lot of people headcanoning Matilda as autistic, I think the one from the musical is leaning more towards adhd, but I can't really elaborate why. I do know it is totally possible for someone to be autistic and adhd at the same time, but I believe it's not her case. But autistic and audhd Matilda headcanons are very valid as well! Although it's not how I see it, good thing that art has several ways to be comprehended, right?

Miss Honey is a lesbian

I remember this was a headcanon even before the musical existed, about the movie's Miss Honey. And it made a lot sense to me in the both of her versions. In the musical's one, specially her part of "when I grow up". She lives in fear, hiding from everything, afraid of speaking up for herself due to her traumatic childhood intimidated by Trunchbull. This is pretty relatable for queer people in general, living in a queerphobic world where it's hard to show ourselves to the world in fear of what some people can do, or say. And I even headcanon that she never got married for not feeling brave enough to come out about her sexuality or allow herself to actually get involved with a woman in a non-platonic way (I'm not saying everyone that doesn't get married is gay or lesbian, I just think it fits in this specific headcanon).

Miss Honey and Mrs. Phelps co-parent Matilda

I love how this is a consense in a lot of people who like Matilda: the musical. And I don't see is as just a queer headcanon, but as something deep and meaningful, and I'll explain why. Matilda's intelligence makes her "different" from other children, and it probably won't be well seen to a lot of people in the movie universe, 'cause misogyny is still a problem that makes a lot of people nonready for a clever girl (specially when the movie seems to have its scenarios on old times, even if not that old, prejudices were way worse back then), and two married women raising a child together wouldn't be well seen at that time as well, but, although some people might not see, blinded by their close minded, they're extraordinary. The exact same thing happens to Matilda. As she lived suffering for having a family so different from her judging her for being different from them for her whole life, I think it would be beautiful she living with a family that has this trait in common of being bad seen, seen as "wrong". As I said, I do believe Miss Honey never allowed herself to be in a relationship, and I think it would be beautiful seeing she making it different for the very first time, allowing herself little by little, with Mrs. Phelps carefully respecting the time and feelings of the woman she loves, for the sake of her well-being.

Matilda actually made up the whole escapologist and acrobat story

NO THIS ISN'T A HEADCANON, but just something that I actually prefer to pretend it's canon in my mind, because the whole stuff of Matilda making up a story putting references to her family issues and how she felts about it in it was so deep. So I just pretend Miss Honey has the backstory of the old movie's Miss Honey and that Matilda actually made that whole story up and even ended up writing about it and publishing. I live for child writer Matilda Wormwood (or Matilda Honey-Phelps, whatever)

Amanda and Hortensia are sisters

I'm not sure if Hortensia is the real name of the blondie prefect with red hat though (I will correct if it's not) but please know that I'm talking about this girl. And no, this one doesn't have a whole deep explanation or a meaningful way of being read, I just like this headcanon. Hortensia terrified her little sister when she entered the school exactly as she did to Matilda and Lavender. Hortensia and Amanda are not close due to having divorced parents and not living together, and that's why Amanda is only seen with her mother in the bus, and not her father. Her father lives with Hortensia and he was the one to pick her sister in the school since he lives with her. But their parents were together when Hortensia was Amanda's age, and she asked for a really short haircut at the time for keeping her mother from making braided pigtails, for knowing what Trunchbull thought of it, and, as she wanted to be prefect, it could not happen if she got in trouble with Trunchbull, so she had to get this braided pigtail idea out of the way. But even when she gets older and no longer lives with her mother, still keeps her short hair, but just because she got used to it. Hortensia could have warned Amanda about the pigtails, but, as I said, they're not close, so that's why she didn't.

Amanda is Lavender's very first crush

Another one that doesn't have explanations other than: I did this headcanon because I like to think about that. I just think the whole stuff of childish first love is sweet. A scene of Lavender confessing her feelings to Amanda in the most child-like navy way possible is very sweet in my mind. I still don't know if I headcanon her feelings to be mutual or not, but I for some reason think Amanda would be impressed by the fact that Lavender owns a newt. She would probably thinks Lavender is such a cool kid.

Hope you liked it :)

#matilda the musical #matilda wormwood #road dahl #matilda 2022 #transfem headcanon #trans headcanon #neurodivergent headcanon #adhd headcanon #sapphic headcanon #headcanons #matilda headcanon

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quiteunlikely-screencaps · 8 months

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Carl Spencer as The Escapologist/Magnus in Matilda the Musical (2022)

#carl spencer #matilda the musical #magnus the escapolgist #screencaps

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the-meme-monarch · 1 year

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my high school is actually doing matilda right now as our spring play! i am one of the assistant stage managers for it and have been able to go to some of the rehearsals and even though they’re still just practicing choreography it already feels more exciting than the movie musical.

but yeah i thought some design aspects of the movie were really cool, (i loved the way the school looked) but i feel like the relationship between ms. honey and matilda could’ve been done better. and also i think matilda and her family could’ve been done better as well, like she doesn’t seem like a hurt child as much as you’d think she’d be, as she’s already really brave. (if that makes sense?) anyways, still don’t know why her brother isn’t in the movie, but oh well.

apologies for the long ramble, this musical is one of my favorites and is really important to me. have a good day/night :]

I've never read the original book so idk if michael was originally in there but I'm actually p ok w him not being in the movie, he kinda just reads as an ableist stereotype to help serve that matilda is Smart compared to her family who Isn't.

But YEAH i loved some the set design and costuming from the movie too! the escapologist's bird cage hat fucking rules. also is it just me or is the acrobat like nevwr even wearing her white scarf even when they talk about it. also how does the movie manage to be two hours long Just Like The Musical and still remove whole songs and a lot of lyrics from songs they Did used.

also this one is more Whatever but i liked how the musical had matilda's parents call themselves the escapologist and acrobat, it feels more like matilda is basing this story on her life, before finding out who's life it really was about. idk i just like it being a funny coincidence that her parents called themselves that over her making it all up on her own

BUT Still Holding My Hand from the movie is a good finale song i like how it wraps up matilda's home life storyline instead of Revolting being the finale song to wrap up her school life storyline when it doesn't end There

#the monarch’s court #theres also my nitpicks that It's A Movie And Not Live Theatre so the special/practical effects are completely different bc Its Not Live #take me to go see matilda

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veilingofthesun · 3 months

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Two weeks ago I watched Kulturhuset Stadsteatern's production of Matilda the Musical. Matilda is one of my absolute favourite musicals and this production made it justice. I was a bit worried that I would compare it to Malmö Opera's production. (That I loved and still think about)

Luckily, both productions did their own thing and they're both similar and different to each other. It's been really fun and interesting to see two non replica productions of Matilda. They both have their own creative takes and I love both productions dearly.

Some things I really loved about this production:

* Quiet. It's my favourite song and everything about was just perfect: The translation, the singing, the acting, the choreography and the lighting. I couldn't have asked for more.

* The whole concept of the stories. It was so beautiful and well made. The acrobat and the escapologist were more visible, and it made it even more effectful. I felt even more for them than I usually do. They had such a beautiful and raw connection, too.

* My House. It's another favourite of mine and I loved the simple beauty of it. It's hard to explain without showing you the scenography, but as Miss Honey sing about certain objects, like a window, it appears as a projection inside the house. Some things, like a chair for Matilda and her cup of tea, are handed to her through the house. It's really clever and it made me smile.

* The individuality of the Matilda's. I love when they get to have their own take on the role and bring their own personalities into their portrayal. All three girls had their own portrayal of Matilda and I was blown away by all of them.

I could write a lot more, but it will have to do for now. I feel so lucky that I got to see this production with all the cast members and even some understudies. I love this production dearly.

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starkiddreamcasting · 1 year

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Starkid Matilda the Musical

When I grow up! I bring you to Starkid dreamcast for Matilda the Musical! One of my favorite musicals that I haven’t done yet since I was waiting for more child actors but I know that wouldn’t be happening anytime soon. In the meantime enjoy this dreamcast and substitute actual children when needed!

1. Kendall Nicole as Matilda Wormwood 2. Tyler Brunsman as Miss Trunchbull 3. Jaime Lyn Beatty as Miss Honey 4. Joey Richter as Mr. Wormwood 5. Lauren Lopez as Mrs. Wormwood 6. Lauren Walker as Mrs. Phelps 7. Will Branner as Eric 8. Richard Campbell as Bruce 9. Brant Cox as Nigel 10. Angela Giarratana as Hortensia 11. Nick Lang as Tommy 12. Sango Tajima as Amanda 13. Tiffany Williams as Lavender 14. Hamilton Davis as Ensemble 15. Denise Donovan as Ensemble 16. Ali Gordon as The Acrobat/Ensemble 17. Brian Holden as Party Entertainer/Sergi/Ensemble 18. Janaya Mahealani Jones as Ensemble 19. Jon Matteson as Ensemble 20. Curt Mega as Doctor/Ensemble 21. Brian Rosenthal as Michael Wormwood/Ensemble 22. James Tolbert as Rudolpho/Ensemble 23. Joe Walker as The Escapologist/Ensemble

Swings: Nico Ager, Corey Dorris, Jae Hughes, Alle-Faye Monka, Virginia Vass, Kim Whalen

Understudies: Denise Donovan (Mrs. Wormwood), Angela Giarratana (Matilda Wormwood), Ali Gordon (Miss Honey, Mrs. Phelps), Brian Holden (Miss Trunchbull, Mr. Wormwood), Janaya Mahealani Jones (Mrs. Wormwood, Mrs. Phelps), Joe Walker (Miss Trunchbull, Mr. Wormwood), Kim Whalen (Miss Honey), Tiffany Williams (Matilda Wormwood)

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.

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missingspaceships · 1 year

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random incredibly specific opinion time: matilda the musical the movie was really well done but i don't think that the escapologist and acrobat story can be effectively done in any medium but theater. the way in a stage performance it doesn't exactly take place in a flashback or distinct location like in the movie, but in this nebulous space that could be reality or imagination? the way matilda playing the little girl is easily explained by the fact that she's the narrator and so doesn't make the girl being miss honey unbelievable, but it also so clearly and succinctly communicates the way she's finding catharsis in the story? the whole subplot is so elaborate that it seems like it should feel incongruous to the main story and yet it's so visceral and resonates so much with the experience of seeking solace in a story that reflects how things are and how you wish they'd be, and i think a stage production's ability to make the identities of the characters mutable is such a crucial part of that

#matilda the musical #matilda the movie musical #this musical was such a formative influence on me and the movie really brought my obsession back lol

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wdillustration · 9 months

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Matilda Musical Numbers AU

Here is a couple of musical numbers that I planned for the AU;

Act 1

"Miracle" by Whole Cast (Both Theatre & Film 2022)

"Naughty" by Matilda (Both Theatre & Film 2022)

"School Song" by Hortensia, Prefects & Students (Both Theatre & Film 2022)

"Pathetic" by Miss Honey (Theatre)

"The Hammer" by Miss Trunchbull (Film 2022)

"Naughty"(Reprise) by Matilda (Both Theatre & Film 2022)

"The Chockey Chant" by Students (Film 2022)

"Loud" by Zinnia Wormwood (Theatre)

"Bruce" by Students (Both Theatre & Film 2022)

Act 2

"Telly" by Harry Wormwood (Theatre)

"When I Grow Up" by Students, Matilda & Miss Honey (Both Theatre & Film 2022)

"I'm Here" by Matilda & Escapologist (Both Theatre & Film 2022)

"The Smell of Rebellion" by Miss Trunchbull (Film 2022)

"Quiet" by Matilda (Film 2022)

"My House" by Miss Honey (Both Theatre & Film 2022)

"Revolting Children" by Bruce & Students (Both Theatre & Film 2022)

"Still Holding My Hand" by Whole Cast (Film 2022)

"When I Grow Up (Reprise)/ Naughty (Reprise)" by Whole Cast (Both Theatre & Film 2022)

#roald dahl #matilda #matilda the musical #musical au #musical numbers

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