To think Matilda the musical is a bit pants

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I like the book. I like Tim Minchin. The actors were all doing their job v well. But it just didn't do it for me.Yet everyone seems to rave about how amazing it is. Not many catchy tunes. No huge musical numbers to make you gasp. The fear is too pantomime. The pay off not wonderful enough. Or is it just me?

DD adored it (went when she was ten). She went to see School of Rock last month and that's her current favourite ever (she's 13 now).

Loved it. And I'm not a huge fan of musical theatre in general.

YABU

It's one of the greatest shows in the West End for a long time. Fantastic songs and such clever lyrics. Brilliant sets.

Completely agree it's the work of a genius. Especially love the swings and Bruce and the cake. Must be great fun to play Bruce!

wishing Miranda was in Annie, not Matilda.

We really enjoyed it, thought the songs were great.

I don't really like any live performance, but especially hate musical theatre. Matilda blew my mind! I went in with no expectations, which probably had an impact.

I loved it.

Amazing musical one of our family favourites

It was exceptional. We're going for the second time next year.

I was massively disappointed in it. But I don't like musicals very much at the best of times.

I saw the RSC first run of it in Stratford before it went to the west end. I was dubious as I love RSC and wanted to see Shakespeare. It was even in the rehearsal space as they were doing up the main theatre. I loved it so much!

We saw it again last March with dc 6 years after I first saw it and still love it. I would definitely go again. Everyone has different tastes though.

I’m another Matilda lover BUT I feel very much the same about The Lion King - everyone raved about it but I am very ‘meh’ about it.

It was better than Charlie and the chocolate factory. But Aladdin is way better than both.

Thank goodness there's someone else out there! Seen it a few times with different children. Thought it was so so at best; even my DDs weren't overly impressed. The problem, I think, is that these are adaptations of children's books, but the economics of such big scale productions don't work unless you can appeal to an adult audience. Hence they "oomph it up" a bit and it loses something in the process. I'd give it 6/10.

I loved it

Its amazing, we've seen it a couple of times and loved the song and the staging.

We absolutely loved it and would definitely go again

Yabvvu it's amazing.

I didn’t love it either. Found it a bit grating. Absolutely loved School of Rock which I saw the night before.

There are loads of catchy songs though?!

It's absolutely amazing. The set is sublime and much cleverer than Charlie &the chocolate factory! 'When I grow up'is utterly perfect

@ILoveMillhousesDad you'll have a fabulous time!

I thought it was amazing.........

We all loved it. I’ve never seen DS sit so still through something so long. He was completely enthralled :)

We loved It!