Matilda the Musical

At a party the children sing that their parents call them a “Miracle” and assure them that they are wonderful and brilliant.

Although the Doctor sings that Matilda, their newborn baby, is a “Miracle,” Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood don’t see it that way at all.

Matilda worries her parents: “Look at this. She’s reading a book. That’s not normal for a five year old. I think she might be an idiot.”

Trapped in an unloving, abusive household, Matilda realizes that “Nobody but me is going to change my story. Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty.”

Librarian Mrs. Phelps is enthralled by Matilda’s story about an Acrobat and an Escapologist who are going to perform “The Burning Woman Hurling through the Air with Dynamite in Her Hair over Sharks and Spiky Objects, Caught by the Man Locked in the Cage.”

To get her out of the way, the Wormwoods send Matilda to a school whose headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, was the 1969 national hammer toss champion and whose motto is “Children are maggots.”

At the gates of Matilda’s new school, the older students tell the new kids, “Your life as you know it is ancient history.”

The kids describe the school’s solitary punishment cell: the Chokey. The terrible Chokey isn't wide enough to sit down in, has nails on the bottom, and is absolutely dark when the door is closed.

Frustrated in avenging herself on Nigel for putting glue on her chair Miss Trunchbull turns her anger on little Amanda Thripp.

Matilda’s teacher, Miss Honey, visits the Wormwood home to ask that their gifted daughter be reassigned out of the bottom level. Mrs. Wormwood, practicing with her dance partner, Rudolpho, replies, that nobody cares if you’re smart. To get ahead in life, you’ve got to be “Loud.”

Mrs. Wormwood and Rudolpho reach the finale of their dance contest number.

Miss Honey worries that "This Little Girl" needs somebody strong to fight by her side but that she is too timid to be the one to help her.

As a punishment for eating a slice of cake, Miss Trunchbull forces Bruce Bogtrotter to eat the rest of the three-layer cake while his classmates watch in fascinated horror. “He might explode!”

Matilda’s father, Mr. Wormwood, explains why nobody needs to read books: “All I know I learnt from telly.”

Famous characters from literature emerge from the telly to dance with Mr. Wormwood, but he doesn’t actually recognize any of them.

The children sing about all they are looking forward to "When I Grow Up."

Mr. Wormwood crows, “I’m So Clever” because he has sold 155 knackered cars to the Russian Mafia by turning back their odometers.

Having caught Miss Honey carrying an armload of books to Matilda, Miss Trunchbull rants that she has detected "The Smell of Rebellion" in the school.

To identify the children who might be harboring rebellious thoughts, Miss Trunchbull pushes the children through a punishing session of phys-ed.

Miss Trunchbull arbitrarily blames Eric for putting a newt into her drinking water. Miss Honey pleads, “Miss Trunchbull don’t, please! You’ll pull his ears off.”

After calling Miss Trunchbull a BIG FAT BULLY, Matilda suddenly realizes that everything has gone “Quiet” as though she has “sailed into the eye of the storm.”

Matilda shows Miss Honey how she made a glass of water tip over onto Miss Trunchbull just by looking at it and thinking about it.

Miss Honey explains that after her father died, she was raised by a mean and cruel aunt, and the humble shed where she still lives provided a shelter where she felt safe.

Still angry about finding a newt in her water, Miss Trunchbull storms into the classroom and announces "a very special spelling test. Any child who gets one single answer wrong shall… go… to… chokey." She singles out Eric to spell “newt.”

The kids revolt against the unfairness of the spelling test, calling out “words” like “Naughty” and “Big fat bully” and intentionally misspelling them.

With the children in full revolt, writing mysteriously appears on the blackboard from Miss Honey’s deceased father, the Escapologist, telling his evil sister, Miss Trunchbull, to give the family mansion back to his daughter.

A representative of the Russian Mafia who has come to punish Mr. Wormwood for selling the 155 junk cars is impressed by Matilda's intelligence. “Your father is very, very stupid. But he is also very, very, very, very lucky to have you as his daughter.”

The whole cast squeezes on-stage for a photo.