Matilda NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (4,312)
See it if You love the original book/film of Matilda. The show is an outstanding reproduction. You must not mind children actors, as there are many.
Don't see it if You do not like child actors. If you're not a fan of over-the-top characters, it can be overwhelming.
See it if you're a little bit naughty and want to feel like a kid again.
Don't see it if you don't like children. Though, even then, you will probably still enjoy it.
See it if you love to watch beautiful and talented children shine so bright! If you like powerful choreography and stage craft.
Don't see it if you don't want to have a good time and a good laugh. if you can't understand an englisha accent. or if you can't keep up with a brisk pace
See it if You like an original show where good triumps evil. Great staging.
Don't see it if You don't like a cartoonish set. I don't know who would not like it.
See it if You love Matilda and want to feel like a kid again.
Don't see it if Can't deal with too many kids in a show.
See it if You loved the movie and or book. See it even if you didn't. The children are amazing g!
Don't see it if You hate thoroughly enjoying life
See it if you have a child ... My daughter loved, loved, loved it!
Don't see it if No reason not too see it ... it was delightful!
See it if you want to be dazzled. It's an amazing musical.
Don't see it if you don't like Brits? I don't know how people couldn't like it.
Critic Reviews (29)
"The U.K.-based Matilda the Musical is the smartest musical to arrive on Broadway in years. But Matilda is also affecting, and enchanting, in a way that homegrown hits of late haven't been."
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"In some ways, the original innocence of the piece has been lost. There’s a harder-edged quality to the New York staging: the general tenor is louder and more exaggerated...but the tremendous heart and intelligence of the piece remains undimmed."
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"The show, adapted from Roald Dahl's mordant 1988 children's book, is a surprisingly low-tech pleasure. Director Matthew Warchus, a master of character-defining physical comedy, has put big handfuls of tiny gifted actors and monstrous authority figures into a relatively simple set of Scrabble-like alphabet tiles and towers of bookshelves."
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"One of the greatly appealing things about Matilda is the way the musical conjures up a special world with its own distinctive people and rules of behavior. With its pizazz, humor, style, intelligence and all-around entertainment quotient, Matilda is far and away, the best new musical seen this season."
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"The show's over-the-top level can be tiring--almost running over the audience--and a lot of the songs are wordy emissions that sound more work-in-progress than classic stage tunes. Still, it's a kiddie show done with spirit, audaciousness, and a minimum of cheap sentiment. Matilda will surely go waltzing home with some Tonys."
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"Matilda arrives in New York with plenty of hype and awards, and it mostly delivers a thrilling blast of nasty fun, even if it's a bit swollen and in need of some fine-tuning."
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"It relies on loud noise, constant aimless movement, an incessant barrage of flashing lights, and trick effects...The show’s oddity is made even odder, in Warchus’s largely thug-handed production, by its occasional lapses into tenderness and quietude, which feel less like the musical theater’s customary changes of pace than like the moments of exhaustion that follow manic episodes."
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"One of the most ambitious, energetic and technically mind-blowing stage musicals ever. Everything here, from Peter Darling’s acrobatic choreography to Rob Howell’s unique set, make it difficult to leave the theater without feeling, as the Brits say, 'gobsmacked.' Tim Minchin’s score is rich and textured on so many levels...From the opening number to the finale nothing here is conventional, but it all works, making 'Matilda' an instant classic."
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