When I Grow Up

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Some more opening night pics can be found in Photos and there’s some footage of the evening at the end of the Videos section below.

As part of the Australian launch in October 2014, Tim talks to the ABC’s Adrian Raschella about the success of the stage production: Elisabeth Vincentelli says “Once in a blue moon, a show comes out blazing and restores your faith in Broadway. A treat for ears and eyes, brain and heart, the glorious ‘Matilda’ has it all.”Team Matilda at the Oliviers 2012, L-R Sophia Kiely, Eleanor Worthington Cox, Cleo Demetriou, Kerry Ingram with Dennis Kelly, Tim, and Bertie Carvel – photo by Helen Maybanks Do any of Matilda’s lyrics, written by thirtysomething Tim, make fortysomething Tim wince? As an artist – or as a person in life, actually – you have to understand that you are going to sometimes hurt people Tim accepting the 2016 Helpmann Award for Best Original Score. (One of a record breaking THIRTEEN Helpmann Award wins for the Australian Production of Matilda The Musical!)

Matilda had now danced away with a phenomenal 47 awards, so far, in Stratford-Upon-Avon, London and New York! Chris Jones (11 April 2013). "Review: 'Matilda' on Broadway at Shubert Theatre". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Publishing . Retrieved 9 July 2014. Ben Brantley describes Matilda as “the most satisfying and subversive musical ever to come out of Britain, where it was nurtured into life by the Royal Shakespeare Company… even more glorious than we were promised… truly revolutionary.” Matilda made its Perth Premiere on Friday, March 3rd, 2017 and will play for a strictly limited season at Perth’s Crown Theatre. Sadly filming commitments on another continent meant that Tim was unable to attend. Critics’ Circle Award: The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical (new or revival) (original Stratford-upon-Avon production)The song "sees children and adults flying high on swings" as they explain what it will mean to grow up. Even the adults feel they haven't yet grown up. [3] He winces, as if in real pain that anyone would think so. “Netflix know, and the Dahls know, that I’m not a mouthpiece for them. I may not always say the right things. But I never, ever say what I am told. I don’t owe anyone anything. Personal-me is agitated by the unsustainable idea of changing people’s fiction. But my view about that is only as important about your view about that.” This first video trailer, released in September 2010, featuring some of the instrumental score written by Tim, was the first opportunity to hear some of the music. By the end of 2013, Matilda on Broadway had proudly made it onto a slew of Top 10 and Best Theatre Show Lists. Theatre Awards UK – Best Performance in a Musical for Bertie Carvel (original Stratford-upon-Avon production)

To help celebrate the upcoming season of Matilda at the Crown Theatre, Perth, Tim returned to his home town for an intimate performance at the Crown Perth Infinity Suite: Opening night on Broadway. Matthew Warchus, Dennis Kelly and Tim joined the cast on stage. Photo by Ellie Kurttz Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre for the Matildas: Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro Still at the Cambridge Theatre in September 2011, Dennis and Tim continue interviewing each other and sniggering. Part 2: Tim, Dennis, other members of the creative team and Lauren Ward, who’s reprising her role as Miss Honey in New York, talk about Matilda’s journey to Broadway:All in all, Matilda the Musical is the treat you and yours have been waiting for if you’ve been waiting for an intelligent, beautiful, funny, sad and ultimately triumphant delivery of Australian musical theatre talent. Not to be missed.” At the media launch in October, 2014, Tim gave a speech and performed songs from the show, including When I Grow Up. Clips and more images from the event can be found in the Video and Photos sections below. a b Benedict, David (11 April 2013). "Legit Review: 'Matilda' ". Variety. Variety Media, LLC . Retrieved 9 July 2014. D'Alessandro, Anthony (9 November 2022). "Netflix Playlist Goes Live For First Time: 'Glass Onion' Johnson Cousins On Childhood Film Roots, Alexandre Desplat Conducts 'Pinocchio' & More". Deadline . Retrieved 5 December 2022.