The Next Best Theatre Podcast: Episode 49 - Matilda The Musical
The Next Best Picture Podcast
The Next Best Picture Podcast
4.2 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The American Theater Wings, Tony Goes to... |
| 0:04.0 | And the Tony Moor goes to... |
| 0:05.7 | And the Tony goes to... |
| 0:07.8 | Dear Evan Hanson. |
| 0:08.8 | Memphis. |
| 0:09.7 | Watts Avenue Q. |
| 0:11.9 | Hamilton. |
| 0:13.0 | A strange movie. |
| 0:17.5 | Hello, all you revolting children out there. |
| 0:20.4 | This is Next Best Theater, part of the Next Best Picture podcast. |
| 0:24.2 | And today we are so excited to be talking about Matilda the musical, both the original stage version and the very recently released Netflix film version. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Cody and I'm here joined by Dan. Hello. And Lauren. |
| 0:38.5 | Hello. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello. |
| 0:40.7 | So just to begin with, the original production was staged in 2010 by the Royal Shakespeare |
| 0:46.1 | Company in London and then transferred to the West End the next year, where it was a huge |
| 0:51.1 | success. |
| 0:51.8 | It set the record for the most Olivier Awards ever won by a musical |
| 0:55.1 | with seven awards. And I didn't know this until today, but apparently is still running to this |
| 1:00.3 | day over 10 years later, which is wild. I'd opened on Broadway in 2013, where I won 420 awards |
| 1:06.6 | and ran until New Year's Day, 2017. And I'm so excited to be talking about this show that I personally love, both the stage version and not too spoiled too much. |
| 1:16.7 | But I found the movie to be pretty delightful. |
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