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#100MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 8:23am

IF this British import wins over the American penned KINKY BOOTS it will be a sad day for American theatre

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joe5
#101MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 8:56am

Congrads on great reviews !!!! Can't wait to see it again !!!!

Sad day in theatre , get a grip !!!!!!

Updated On: 4/12/13 at 08:56 AM

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rosscoe(au)
#102MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 9:02am

Um Kinky Boots is based on a English film, sad day indeed!


Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

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jnb9872
#103MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 9:05am

Right, because the American theatre has never been graced with Award-winning shows from the other excellent theatre-producing nations of the world.

Also, hilarious irony, considering that the movie was British anyways. All the world's a stage! Wherever shows come from, when they're good, rejoice!


Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

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newintown
#104MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 9:14am

The show has been on my mind a lot since seeing it a few days ago, and I really think it's the best piece of new musical theatre I've seen in several years - unique, unexpected, with a great heart and the light life-view that a great musical needs (in my opinion).

Every aspect brought joy and wonder. I can't praise it enough.

In particular, the restrained performances of most of the kids (especially Matilda) was the freshest breath of air from any show featuring children ever.

Updated On: 4/12/13 at 09:14 AM

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SeanMartin
#106MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 9:35am

Not to sound too dismissive of the WOM panel, but Ms Marketing was a bit... odd. "I love this! I love that! And I really love that over there!... but I didnt like it that much." She seemed pretty disconnected.

Sorry, A8: I'm not sure how they find these folks — random members of the audience, maybe? — but I dont think I would consider her a Real Deep Thinker. Although I would be curious to know what the Real Estate Agent has seen that she considered better. I'm not championing the show without seeing it (it's going on the list for this fall), but when the critics are this effusive across the board and it's the first show this season to garner that kind of reaction, it does sorta beg the question.


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After Eight
#107MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 10:17am

Now, now, Sean, you're sounding a little condescending here. I expect better from you.

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SeanMartin
#108MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 10:24am

Dude, you're reading way too much into it. I dont have names to work with, so Miss Marketing is, well, Miss Marketing. And she did sound disconnected. Sorry, but that's the impression.


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Kad
#109MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 10:31am

"Now, now, Sean, you're sounding a little condescending here. I expect better from you."

But not from yourself, I guess.


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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GilmoreGirlO2
#110MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 11:38am

Have had the cast recording since it came out and have been highly anticipating this, as I have fallen in love with the show just through the recording.

Reading Brantley’s review gave me chills.

Seeing the show in July and can’t wait. Congrats to all involved!

Owen22
#111MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 12:03pm

"And Play It Again, my posts are the most constructive of any on this board. They are concerned with the well-being of the audience, without whom we would have no theatre at all."

Oh my God. After Eight is full of sh*t!! I hated him but at least I respected him somewhat in his over-negativity. I thought it came from, at least, a pure (purely evil, but pure) place.

Now I realize he is just a standard issue troll. Wow...

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ClydeBarrow
#112MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 12:28pm

Looks like someone effed up...
The 'Matilda' Marketing Team Had an Easy Job It Didn't Do


"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah

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morosco
#113MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 12:45pm

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kadu335
#114MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 12:45pm

After reading these reviews, I'm even more excited about the show... the only bad thing is having to wait until November, when I'm in NYC, to see it. =(


Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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CarlosAlberto
#115MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 1:18pm

Now I realize he is just a standard issue troll. Wow..

That is just downright insulting to standard issue trolls...

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SeanMartin
#116MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 1:23pm

@ Clyde:

OMG that's hysterical. The BEST QUOTE EVER! LOL


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roadmixer
#117MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 1:50pm

Trish2 and others... Reviews and/or Tony awards alone don't determine the long-term prognosis for a show. Check out reviews for Wicked and Mamma Mia! and many other successful long-running shows which were similar to KINKY BOOTS.

It's great that MATILDA is heralded as the second-coming of musical theatre but is it really necessary to pronounce other shows as hopeless as a result? Last time I checked there was more than one successful show running on Broadway.

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JudyDenmark
#118MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 2:00pm

To be fair, MAMMA MIA and WICKED are hugely popular because they're easily accessible shows that appeal to a wide demographic. KINKY BOOTS... not so much. I hope that it lives a long and healthy life - I hope that for all good shows, because it's great for theatre in general! - but I don't think you can compare KB with the commercial sell of MM and WICKED. I don't see it having the longevity in community theatre/high schools/tours that the others do - I don't think it has anything to do with reviews either way. Apples and oranges.

(And go Matilda! Holy cow Ben Brantley!)

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finebydesign
#119MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 2:08pm

Outside of the reviews, I have no idea why anyone would want to see Kinkyboots. Maybe Cyndi.

Matilda is just something so fresh, it kinda does what BoM does. It brings the children's musical up to an audience lost in a desert of derivative crap.

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Kelly2
#120MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 2:15pm

Whether you liked it or not (and I find myself kind of in the middle), you have to realize that having these big monster hits is great for the Broadway economy and creating a hype and a spectacle around a show like this every season or so gets butts in seats and makes the tourists feel like there's something here they can't miss. Book of Mormon felt the same way to me.

Of course the show isn't as good as all the raves, almost nothing could live up to the kind of hype built around this show (and Mormon, and many others in the past, and I say that having LOVED Book of Mormon) but the point is that there's a usefulness to the community as a whole in creating "phenomenon" shows like this. If you think reviewers aren't aware of that, y'all be crazy.

If there's gonna be a psychotic hype train following around a show from this season, I'd much rather it be Matilda than some of the other options.


"Get mad, then get over it." - Colin Powell

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darquegk
#121MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 2:22pm

Also, don't forget one other concern, the concern that I suspect is as important as Broadway or touring success- licensing.

Matilda is gonna be the "Millie" or the "Beauty and the Beast" of its release year. EVERY school, EVERY community theatre, they're all gonna be doing Matilda. It's gonna be inescapable- there's no way Kinky Boots or even Spring Awakening showed that much post-professional promise.

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Mister Matt
#122MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 2:31pm

IF this British import wins over the American penned KINKY BOOTS it will be a sad day for American theatre

No, it won't. It'll just be a sad day for American xenophobes who think it's an Us vs Them competition.

And Play It Again, my posts are the most constructive of any on this board.

This has never been true.


"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

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zepka102
#123MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 4:29pm

After seeing the show Tuesday night, I can't agree more with the reviews. Fantastic show, choreography was perfect, and Oona Laurence blew me away. It's fun, catchy, heartfelt... I wouldn't be upset if it won.


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BOM
#124MATILDA Reviews
Posted: 4/12/13 at 4:56pm

Could someone tell me how the front row balcony seats are?