When I Grow Up

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a b Reul, Katie (8 November 2022). "10 Biggest Takeaways From Netflix Playlist, a Film and Series Music Showcase". Variety . Retrieved 5 December 2022. Just a couple of weeks later Matilda was honoured at the 16th annual South Bank Sky Arts Awards, winning the theatre prize. There is a short interview with Tim on the night here. A full 30 minute episode of Theater Talk featuring Matilda The Musical, talking to Tim, Dennis Kelly and actor Bertie Carvel: Broadway World: UK Awards – Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Emily Shaw / Josie Walker / Lauren Ward / Melanie Le Barrie

In November 2012 the producers announced the four young actresses who’d alternate playing the feisty heroine, Matilda, all of whom would be making their Broadway debuts: Oona Laurence, Milly Shapiro, Bailey Ryon and Sophia Gennua! Also making his Broadway debut was Bertie Carvel, reprising his West End role as the fearsome headmistress Miss Trunchbull, for which he won the 2012 Olivier for Best Actor in a Musical. New York Magazine notes that in the song, "they dream of being old enough to handle the burdens that life, with its rude sense of humor, has already given them". [4] a b Green, Jesse. "Matilda the Musical - Theater Profile and Schedule - New York Magazine". New York. Vox Media . Retrieved 9 July 2014. Fittingly, given that Groundhog Day is a story about do-overs, Minchin and his collaborators will try to revive their beleaguered musical at the Old Vic in London next month. He is confident things will work out better this time. From inside the rehearsal room, loud enough to boom through a soundproofed door, the new cast of Groundhog Day burst into song. They’re being taught the musical’s opening number. It would have been nice to see more of the types of careers kids want to be when they grow up, since a lot of kids tend to say they want to be firefighters or teachers or gymnasts, for example. These are all also the thoughts of children, so even a slight focus on each of these ideas, from the same perspective of being a child and how childhood injects more fun into careers, would have been nice. However, the premise of 'When I Grow Up' will resonate with readers young and old, increasing nostalgia for one's youth and capturing the minds of those still in that age range.

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Matilda the Musical is that rare thing: a show that’s genuinely for all the family. It’s altogether remarkable and brilliantly realised.” Geier, Thom (12 April 2013). "Matilda". Entertainment Weekly. Meredith Corporation . Retrieved 9 July 2014. The Groundhog Day rehearsal has resumed. Morning is about to hit on that fateful Groundhog Day in small-town America. Normal forward progress is about to be disrupted and, to capture this, Minchin has arranged his song so that the cast all get lodged on a note. Instead of singing “If not tomorrow / Perhaps the day after”, they sing “If not tomorrow / Perhaps the day aaaaarrrgh”. The final note starts to sound like an anguished howl. The award wins rolled in throughout May 2013: The New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical; two Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards including Favorite Song for Tim’s ‘When I Grow Up’; two Outer Critics Circle Awards; the Theatre World Award for Best Debut Performance for Bertie Carvel and five Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Lyrics for Tim. The full list of award nominations and wins an be found in the Awards section. When I Grow Up is the song from Matilda the Musical that makes the butchest grown-ups weep with its message of uncynical hope. It doesn’t always work when lyrics are illustrated and turned into children’s picture books. However, these words — with dreamy artwork from Steve Antony — work well read or sung out loud before bedtime. After all, what child doesn’t want to imagine an adulthood where they “eat sweets every day on the way to work”?

Minchin with cast members from the RSC production of Matilda, in Melbourne, 2016. Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images When I Grow Up is the magical new picture book, inspired by Tim’s much loved hit song from the multi-award-winning Matilda The Musical. It imagines life from a child’s viewpoint, with all the humour and poignancy of the song. Matilda had now danced away with a phenomenal 47 awards, so far, in Stratford-Upon-Avon, London and New York! Still at the Cambridge Theatre in September 2011, Dennis and Tim continue interviewing each other and sniggering. Part 2:

When you make something so detailed, over so many thousands of hours, something you think is broadly appealing, about how we’re to be as people – and it doesn’t fly? That’s incredibly painful,” Minchin says. Litson, Jo (30 June 2015). "Tim Minchin: Part 1". Jo Litson: Scene and Heard . Retrieved 18 October 2016. It seems there’s an incredible slippery slope problem with editing texts. I mean, my initial reaction, when I heard about it? ‘Now we’ll have to get all the rapes out of all the history books. Then the world will be a better place.’”

His kids are teenagers now. They sometimes get things wrong. Minchin is nearly 50. He sometimes get things wrong, too. He says: “We try to get things wrong together.” It’s probably the best that any of us can do.The RSC’s ‘Matilda’ is the best British musical in years. And it’s not just a kids’ show… It is guaranteed to delight anyone who’s ever been a child. Tim and Eleanor Worthington Cox spookily on Time Out London’s Halloween 2011 front cover. Photographer: Jay Brooks. Hair and Make up: Dorita Nissen using M.A.C. Some more opening night pics can be found in Photos and there’s some footage of the evening at the end of the Videos section below.

The song "sees children and adults flying high on swings" as they explain what it will mean to grow up. Even the adults feel they haven't yet grown up. [3] A few days before the end of the run Matilda was awarded the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical. These awards recognise excellence for theatre throughout the UK and are selected by a group of professional theatre critics. The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical (new or revival) was presented by Matt Wolf, at the Prince of Wales Theatre and was accepted by director Matthew Warchus and some of the children from the cast. What my kids have taught me is humility about your control over shit.’ This image and top: Minchin wears suit, by Canali from mrporter.com; jumper, sunspel.com. Photograph: David Vintiner/The Guardian Time Out meets madcap comedian Tim Minchin as he talks about ‘Matilda The Musical’ Time Out London (Interview)Behind the scenes insights at the July 2010 Workshops and Christopher Nightingale the musical supervisor and orchestrator talking with Tim about job titles/roles, and preparing to perform the show for a small audience of children and adults. He winces, as if in real pain that anyone would think so. “Netflix know, and the Dahls know, that I’m not a mouthpiece for them. I may not always say the right things. But I never, ever say what I am told. I don’t owe anyone anything. Personal-me is agitated by the unsustainable idea of changing people’s fiction. But my view about that is only as important about your view about that.”