{"id":3381,"date":"2014-01-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2014-02-18T10:39:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:39:47","slug":"matilda-and-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/matilda-and-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"Matilda and Monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Matilda\"<\/a>

Maggots!<\/p><\/div>\n

In January we took a whistle-stop trip to NYC for Thing 2’s 10th birthday. It’s becoming a thing (we saw Annie<\/em> last year). This year we saw Matilda<\/em>.
\nYou must go.
\nReally, you must.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how you’ll do it, but try everything you can to go see this show. My Goodness… it’s a book-lover’s paradise. And oddly, the theater was populated by plenty of folks who (I gather) had never read a Roald Dahl book before by the way they gasped at Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood<\/a> and Miss Trunchbull<\/a> (played by the marvelous Chris Hotch<\/a> in terrifying drag).<\/p>\n

Why, you ask, must you run out and find your way to New York?<\/p>\n

Because of Tim Minchin’s lyrics and music and Matthew Warchus’ deeply inventive staging.<\/p>\n

Minchin (who you may know from this<\/a>, or this<\/a>\u2014neither for children’s ears) or from this<\/a> (which children might not ‘get’, but could probably hear without their ears melting. If you watch the extended, uncut version you’ll hear the whole intro) is the \u00fcber logical, science-loving, eyeliner-wearing, bed-head touting, happily-married, songster-comedian-genius behind STORM<\/a> (again, not for children). We might think\u2014based on all of that\u2014that he would be a horrid, cynical lyricist for a play about a genius, quirky, lovely, loving magical, girl.<\/p>\n

We would all be wrong.<\/p>\n

He is absolutely perfectly wonderful.<\/p>\n

Here.<\/p>\n

Here is the Royal Variety performance, 2013.<\/p>\n