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Welcome to a wiki for Matilda the Musical. Here, you will find details of casting and dates.

Matilda the Musical is a musical written by Dennis Kelly with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin. The show is currently running on the West End. It is based on the beloved children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl, and has won the most Olivier Awards in history. The musical is centred around the Wormwood family: the titular character Matilda Wormwood, Mrs Wormwood, Mr Wormwood and Michael Wormwood. When Matilda starts school, she meets the lovely Miss Honey, the horrible Miss Trunchbull and befriends her classmates: Bruce, Lavender, Nigel, Amanda, Eric, Alice, Hortensia and Tommy.

Matilda the Musical around the World

Professional Productions:

• West End
• just announced: UK and Ireland Tour!!

Current Matildas around the world

Here is a list of all of the current Matildas

West End:

• Anna Deikalo
• Ava Posniak
• Sophia Saravanan
• Angelica Scott

Current West End Cast

Here is a list of the current West End children’s Cast

Matilda

• Anna Deikalo
• Ava Posniak
• Sophia Saravanan
• Angelica Scott

Bruce

• Max Garlick
• Charlie Man-Evans
• Adam Hussain
• Joey Grady

Lavender

• Marnie Rae Warren-Baker
• Sienna Culm
• Elyza Alderton

Nigel

• Ryo Appadu
• Tristan Marwa
• Joseph Burrows

Amanda

• Jesamine-Bleu Gibbs
• Beatrice Armitage
• Maddy Collings

Eric

• Kaylen Luke
• Pasquale Folivi Aben-Danan
• George Jones

Alice

• Yvie Moore
• Isabelle McLatchie
• Amber Koduah-Hutchison

Hortensia

• Amelia-Grace Cambridge
• Alexandra Horner
• Anayah Thomas

Tommy

• Nesim Adnan
• Blake Graham
• Kobe Warmington

click here for the 2023-24 cast

click here for the March 2024-September 2024 cast

Did you know?

• At 4ft 4in (or: 132cm) tall, Matilda Wormwood is the smallest leading lady in a musical.
• The production uses 8.320 balloons a year and 105 metres of balloon elastic.
• There are 3.780 paper aeroplanes flown into the audience each year. Each one is a written school report of one of Matilda's classmates.
• The production goes through over 100 tubs of chocolate spread each year.
• The Blackboard moves 15.5 miles (or 24.9 km) over the course of a year, at a top speed of 1.5mph (or 1.6km/h)
• Miss Honey and Matilda enjoy a real cup of tea on stage complete with milk and a biscuit during the song "My House"
• The Crunchem Hall School badge that features on the children's blazers is designed by Quentin Blake, who also illustrated the books written by Roald Dahl.
• Tim Minchin, the Australian comedian who wrote the lyrics and music for Matilda, first tried to get the rights to make Matilda the Musical just after Roald Dahl's death in 1990, but he wasn't successful until many years later.
• Matilda the Musical has won over 100 international awards, including 24 for Best Musical.
• The South Korean Production of Matilda is the very first production of the show to be entirely in a language other than English.
• Matilda is the 55th longest running show on Broadway and was in Australia for a whopping two years!
• Matilda is the longest-running show at the Cambridge Theatre in London.
• Matilda the Musical is the 15th longest-running show in the West End, having played over 4.600 performances as of September 2024.
• Matilda is featured in an episode of the podcast "Jim and Tomic's Musical Theatre Happy Hour" on December 9, 2016.
• Matilda is featured in an episode of the podcast "Musicals with Cheese" on March 8, 2019.