THIS HALF TERM,
DON’T MISS THE CHANCE TO SEE THE ROYAL
SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL
STANDING
OVATIONS AND 5 STAR REVIEWS FOR ONLY NORTH EAST DATE AT THE SUNDERLAND EMPIRE
RUNNING UNTIL
SATURDAY 2 JUNE ONLY!
OVER 50,000 PEOPLE ARE
EXPECTED TO HAVE SEEN THE SHOW BY THE END OF THE SUNDERLAND RUN.
Read the ✹✹✹✹✹ North East Theatre Guide
Review: http://www.northeasttheatreguide.co.uk/2018/05/review-matilda-musical-at-sunderland.html
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Matilda The Musical opened to standing ovations and 5 star
reviews this month at Sunderland Empire. The multi-award winning production tells the
story of an extraordinary little girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a
sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny.
Over
50,000 people are expected to have seen the production by the end of the Sunderland
run, with visitors travelling
to the City from as far as Brighton and Aberdeen. To date around 1,500 ice-creams have been devoured, 1,500
programmes have been browsed and around 1,000 slushes crunched in Sunderland!
It has also been divulged that Miss Honey and
Matilda enjoy a cup of real hot tea on stage complete with milk and a biscuit
at each performance during the song: ‘My House’. The production will also get
through over 100 tubs of chocolate spread and will use 8,320 balloons this year!
Winner of over 85
international awards, including 16 for Best Musical, Matilda The Musical is written by Dennis Kelly,
with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, and direction by Matthew
Warchus. The production is designed by Rob Howell, with choreography
by Peter Darling, orchestrations, additional music and musical
supervision by Christopher Nightingale, lighting by Hugh Vanstone,
sound by Simon Baker and the special effects and illusions are by Paul
Kieve.
The production is accompanied by Change My Story, a new education programme inspired by Matilda
The Musical which will engage young people in towns and cities across the
UK and Ireland. Sunderland
Empire’s Creative Learning department in liaison with the RSC’s Matilda The Musical have three schools
signed up as Change My Story
Champion Schools including Our Lady Queen of Peace Primary School,
Benedict Biscop C.E. Academy and Hudson Road Primary School.
Over
the coming months over 150 young people
from the three Sunderland Champion
Schools will work with the RSC and Sunderland Empire to stage a special
45-minute edit of Matilda The Musical as
their school play. The project involves committing to a two-year programme of
creative work, including professional development and training opportunities
for teachers and working with other local schools to share skills and knowledge
from the programme.
Craige
Els has reprised the role of Miss Trunchbull for the first six dates of Matilda The
Musical’s UK and Ireland tour, having played her in the West End for three
years between 2014 and 2017. He is joined by Carly Thoms as Miss Honey, and Sebastien
Torkia and Rebecca Thornhill as
Mr and Mrs Wormwood.
The title role is shared by Annalise Bradbury, Lara Cohen, Poppy Jones and Nicola Turner. Three teams play the roles of Bruce,
Lavender, Amanda and the rest of the pupils at Crunchem Hall and are as
follows: Louella Asante-Owusu, Isobelle Chalmers, Kiana Dumbuya, Madeline
Gilby, Sheldon Golding, Jobe Hart, Raphael Higgins-Humes, Dylan Hughes, Sam
Lovelock, Tayah Marshall Brewster, Jaden Meek, Alfie Murray, Nicholas Seal,
Daisy Sequerra, Elliot Stiff, Lyla Toplass, George Varley, Scarlett Weegram,
Maisy-May Woods-Smeeth, Harrison Wilding, and Sophie Young.
The full adult cast includes Joe Atkinson, Nina Bell, Peter
Bindloss, Oliver Bingham, Emily Bull, Matthew Caputo, Samara Casteallo, Craige Els,
Matt Gillett, Michelle Chantelle Hopewell, Sam Lathwood, Steffan
Lloyd-Evans, Charlie Martin, Anu Ogunmefun, Carly Thoms, Rebecca Thornhill,
Sebastien Torkia, Taylor Walker, Adam Vaughan, and Dawn Williams.
The West End production will continue to play at the Cambridge Theatre,
where it is now in its seventh year and is booking until 20 October 2019.
Inspired by the incomparable Roald Dahl’s beloved book, Matilda The Musical was commissioned by
the Royal Shakespeare Company and premiered at the RSC’s The Courtyard Theatre
in Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2010, before transferring to London’s West
End in October 2011, where it opened to rave reviews.
The New York production of Matilda
The Musical opened in April 2013 at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre and was celebrated on 10 “Top Ten”
lists for 2013, including TIME Magazine’s #1 Show of the Year.
Matilda The Musical has now been seen by 8 million people worldwide. Having swept the board at the 2012 Olivier Awards, with a
record-breaking seven awards, and winning four Tony Awards and a Tony Honor for
Excellence in the Theater for the four girls sharing the title role on
Broadway, Matilda The Musical has now
played in 64 cities and has played more than 5800 performances worldwide.
After winning a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Musical in 2015, the Australian and New Zealand tour has now played sold-out seasons
in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Auckland. In July 2016, Matilda The Musical
broke further records by winning all 13 Helpmann Awards for which it was
nominated. The show began playing its first non-English language production in
South Korea in September 2018, where it will play at the LG Arts Centre in
Seoul until February 2019.
Matilda The Musical is produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company with
André Ptaszynski and Denise Wood as Executive Producers. The production was
developed with the support of Jeanie O’Hare and the RSC Literary Department.
On The Web:
#matildaontour
Twitter: @MatildaMusical
Facebook: @MatildaTheMusical
Instagram: @MatildaTheMusical
Photo
Credit: Manuel Harlan
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