"Matilda" - Music Encyclopedia

"Matilda"

Background introduction: This musical is adapted from the children's book of the same name by Roald Dahl. Dahl's other masterpieces include "Charlie's Chocolate Factory" and "The Fantastic Mr. Fox". The play won five awards at the 2013 Tony Awards, the highest award in American theater.

Story introduction The story told in this play is that Matilda grew up in an irresponsible family. Her father was a bad businessman and her mother was a woman who only cared about her dancing. The two never read, but Matilda read all the books in the family when she was 4 years old. In order to read books, she made up stories and told them to the librarian in exchange for being able to read books in the library. Matilda was sent to school, but the principal, Miss Trachibull, was a former shot put player who used authoritarian and tough methods to manage the school. When students were disobedient, they would throw students out like shot put. Students studied with trepidation under her Galway rule. There is a gentle and timid teacher Honey in the school. She discovered Matilda's talent and decided to give her special care. In the story Matilda told the librarian, a magician and acrobat were very successful, but sadly they had no children. They announced that they would perform a difficult escape technique and acrobatics. But while preparing for the performance, he discovered that his wife was pregnant. They wanted to cancel the performance, but the acrobat's sister forced them to continue performing on the grounds that she was jailed for breach of contract. In the end, the acrobat was nervous and the magician's hand slipped during the performance, causing the acrobat to fall from a high altitude and be seriously injured. After insisting on giving birth, The child later died. The magician was immersed in the death of his wife and could not extricate himself. The acrobat's sister came to help take care of the child, but in fact she had been abusing the child. After the magician's death, she occupied the child's house and continued to abuse the child. The story is told in parallel with Matilda's life in reality. However, in the second half of the play, Matilda came to Miss Honey's shabby home and discovered that Miss Honey was the one Matilda had been telling about. The magician's child in that story, and the sister who persecuted the magician and his wife to death and abused the child is Principal Tracibull! Later, with the help of Matilda, Principal Tracibull was driven away and the house was taken back by Miss Honey. Matilda's parents were chased by the Mafia and fled, leaving Matilda and Honey behind. Live with the lady. The story ends successfully.

Some thoughts

The plot is so good, the songs are very rhythmic, the children’s performances are lively and lively, and the little magic tricks interspersed are amazing. After reading it, all I could think of was Matilda's brave and fearless figure. Yes, the biggest feeling this drama gave me was bravery. Faced with indifference and even ridicule from her family, Matilda still insisted on reading in the corner; her father tore up her book and locked her in the room, so she fought back angrily and bravely, smearing the inside edge of her hat. I put glue on my dad, and mixed dye into dad's styling water to dye dad's hair green. She said that if you don't speak out and fight back bravely, if you don't do anything, they will think it's right and that's allowed, but it's not right. What she did and said shocked me. She was so small and thin on the stage, but she resisted so resolutely and fearlessly. Her bravery was so firm, so dazzling, and so powerful. Where did she draw the strength to do these things? Are they the stories of kind and upright characters in the book?

When I recalled the opening of this play, I noticed again the opening scene of Matilda’s birth. The background music is "my mom says I'm a miracle". At the same time, Matilda's mother has been complaining that giving birth has affected her from dancing. She looks ugly in a hospital gown and the baby she gave birth to is so ugly. This is a child who was never loved, never loved, and never expected even on the day he was born. The desire for tenderness and love is something rooted in human genes and even in the genes of all living organisms. In such an indifferent family, how did Matilda survive and spend every day? How to find solace in books.

There is nothing worth telling about the story of sharing the same hatred with classmates in school and battling wits and courage with Principal Tracibul. What I want to say is that Matilda developed a special ability to move things with her mind under the pressure of the principal. She used this ability to move the bug into the principal's clothes. She used this function to move the chalk and write "Give the house back to Miss Honey" to the principal on the blackboard. She used this function to help Teacher Honey get her house back. After finally living with Miss Honey, she no longer had this ability. The narrator seemed to say that she no longer needed this ability because they found each other. She and Miss Honey found each other. Two people who encounter misfortune in life, they care and help each other, and comfort each other's souls. They found each other. In the end it felt so good, so good, and luckily it was. If possible, living happily does not require some special functions in life. However, some people encounter some misfortunes in life. They are angry, painful, helpless, and they have to develop some special functions.

Just like when I watched "Be Like a Bird and Fly to Your Mountain" before, Tara went to visit Cambridge University. She had a special ability to walk freely on the sloping roof, which was very surprising to Dr. Kerry, and In fact, this is just an ability she developed from working on cranes for many years. The song "when I grow up" says, "When I grow up, I will be tall enough to reach the treetops, climb the towering tree, and embark on the necessary path of growth. And when I grow up, When I grow up, I will be able to intelligently answer all the questions I need to know. I must answer them before I grow up. When I grow up, I will be strong enough to carry the heavy burden of life on your shoulders. Stay while you grow up." Whether Matilda grew up to be a strong and brave child who left her terrible parents, or Miss Honey grew up to be a brave adult and left her abusive aunt, they found each other and through it all they gained. Let’s grow up.

Finally, here are my favorite lyrics from the song "naughty":

Just because you find that life's not fair, it

If you just find that life's not fair, it Fair enough, that

Doesn't mean that you just have to grin and bear it!

If you always take it on the chin and wear it

If all you can do is mention it often

You might as well be saying

You might say

You think that it's ok

That's not bad

And that's not right!

But this is not right!