

One boy has to eat an entire chocolate cake while on stage, plus we have to actually recreate Matilda’s telekinesis. “There are some tricks in this show that we have to figure out. This show will require a bit of magic to pull off. I think imagination is better than the actual set piece.”- Beth DomannĦ. Yikes! “While you never actually see the Chokey you know it’s there-somewhere, ready to eat its next victim.

SLT has to somehow create the Chokey-the punishment cupboard lined with sharp objects that The Trunchbull uses on unruly kids. And when the kids rise up against The Wormwoods and The Trunchbull, you can’t help but cheer for them.”- Lorianne Dunn 5. They treat her pretty poorly, so you like to see the kids win in this show. “Matilda doesn’t come from a good family. In fact, they have 10 reasons audiences should be pumped and headed to the box office immediately. But Education Director Lorianne Dunn and Executive Director Beth Domann aren’t worried. If you’re familiar with Matilda, you know SLT is going to have to do some magic of its own to bring this wildly colorful and unbelievable story to life. Now, Matilda is bringing her magic to The Landers Theatre, as the cast and crew of Springfield Little Theatre get ready to perform Matilda the Musical May 8–23.

Author Roald Dahl first introduced readers to Matilda in 1988, and Danny DeVito brought this young heroine to the big screen in 1996. Throw in her taste for vengeance against the tyrannical adults in her life, and boom-audiences young and old were hooked. She was the precocious youngster whose vivid imagination and powerful telekinesis children of the '90s envied. Long before Wonder Woman or Lizzo showed up and started smashing gender, age and body type norms to pieces, it was 5-year-old Matilda many of us looked up to.
