Matilda The Musical, 2013

The run closed January 1, 2017

Opened

April 11, 2013

Closed

January 1, 2017

Performances

1,554

Previews

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Theatre

Shubert Theatre

Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 10th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Matilda The Musical 2 more that season

Who was in it98 named

Sophia Gennusa
Oona Laurence
Milly Shapiro
Frenie Acoba
Erica Simone Barnett
Judah Bellamy
Jack Broderick
Ava Demary
John Arthur Greene
Emma Howard
Thayne Jasperson
Tamika Sonja Lawrence
Luke Kolbe Mannikus
Madilyn Jaz Morrow
Jared Parker
John Sanders
Phillip Spaeth
Betsy Struxness
Samantha Sturm
Heather Tepe
Beatrice Tulchin
Ted Wilson
Jennifer Blood
Rick Holmes
Noah Baird
Jennifer Bowles
Paige Brady
Beada Briglia
Christian Michael Camporin
Timothy Tv Cao
Grace Capeless
Mattea Conforti
Marcus D Angelo
Shane Davis
Cole Alex Edelstein
Michael Fatica
Wesley Faucher
Tori Feinstein
Akira Golz
Jonah Halperin
Benjamin Harding
Matt Harrington
Garett Hawe
Ora Jones
Marisa Kennedy
Amanda LaMotte
Alison Luff
Eliza Holland Madore
Zoe Manarel
Grace Matwijec
Lauralyn Mcclelland
Rileigh Mcdonald
Joseph Medeiros
Matt Meigs
Michael Minarik
Sean Montgomery
Jack Mullen
Brooklyn Nelson
Alexa Shae Niziak
Geoff Packard
Jill Paice
Gianina Paolantonio
Gabriella Pizzolo
David Rosenthal
Sofia Roma Rubino
Mimi Ryder
Talia Ryder
Ian Saraceni
Analise Scarpaci
Brooklyn Shuck
Cassie Silva
Mitchell Sink
Michaeljon Slinger
Ripley Sobo
Fina Strazza
Chris Sumpter
Gavin Swartz
Ava Ulloa
Alexandra Vlachos
Travis Waldschmidt

22 of these 98 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 76 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters6 roles recorded

Sophia Gennusa Oona Laurence Bailey Ryon Milly Shapiro Matilda
Craige Els Miss Trunchbull
Carly Thoms Miss Honey
Quinn Mattfeld Mr. Wormwood
Cassie Silva Mrs. Wormwood
Ora Jones Mrs. Phelps

Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

Matthew Warchus

Choreographer

Peter Darling

Orchestrations

Christopher Nightingale

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Around this production

Roald Dahl's Matilda, also known simply as Matilda and Matilda the Musical, is a musical with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and a book by Dennis Kelly. It is based on the 1988 novel Matilda by Roald Dahl. The musical's narrative centres on Matilda Wormwood, a precocious five-year-old girl with the gift of telekinesis, who loves reading, overcomes obstacles caused by her family and school, and helps her teacher to reclaim her life. After a twelve-week trial run staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at Stratford-upon-Avon from November 2010 to January 2011, it received its West End premiere on 24 November 2011 at the Cambridge Theatre and its Broadway premiere on 11 April 2013 at the…

Matilda the Musical (Dennis Kelly/Tim Minchin) Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, December 9 The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 488

• Nadine Isenegger, Matilda The Musical The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 427
• Matilda The Musical, Music & Lyrics: Tim Minchin The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 431
• Outstanding Musical: Matilda the Musical Outstanding Revival of a Musical: Pippin Outstanding Actor in a Musical: Billy Porter, Kinky Boots Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Andrea Martin, Pippin Outstanding Director of a Musical: Diane Paulus, Pippin Outstanding Music: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Here Lies L… The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 432
• Theatre World Awards winner Bertie Carvel, Matilda the Musical The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 433

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What this page does not know

• No recording is held for Matilda The Musical at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.