Bringing Matilda to life Marietta performs their take on hit broadway musical

Matilda: The Musical, follows a young girl named Matilda as she faces the challenges of living with her parents and starting school. Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, her parents, dismissed her as their child from her birth, calling her ugly and unwilling to accept her. The Wormwoods ignore and stay oblivious to what Matilda has gone through as a child while her older brother, Michael, torments her, and her family mocks and mistreats her.

Kaly Piovesan Toussaint (11) plays Mr. Wormwood.

“I relate to [Mr. Wormwood’s] drive. He is very determined to get things done in the best way that he can do it for his family,” Toussaint said.

As Matilda starts school, she forms a close bond with one of her teachers, Ms. Honey. Ms. Honey is impressed with Matilda’s intellect and ability, and suggests she moves up to the top class with older children. During her time at school, Matilda meets the spiteful headmistress, Ms. Trunchbull. She watches as Trunchbull abuses and punishes bad children, locking them in closets as punishment.

“I am playing Agatha Trunchbull. She’s the headmistress of the school. I don’t consider myself to be a mean person, and she’s just a really terrible human being,” Tiah Carthers (11) said.

Carthers expressed the difficulty of playing a character so different from herself, and the challenges with the role. “It’s finding out how she would act in situations versus how I would act,” Carthers said.

Ms. Trunchbull’s cruelty continues, Matilda fights to stop it and rallies her classmates together. She learns of Ms. Trunchbull’s cruelty to Ms. Honey and helps Ms. Honey get her home back. The children work together to rid the school of their evil headmistress, and Ms. Honey takes over the job.

At the end of the musical, Matilda talks with her parents, and the Wormwoods allow Matilda to live with Ms. Honey.

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