Matilda freak out
Matilda freak out
#1Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/5/16 at 8:59pm
Little quick story. So every week when Broadway.com announces the grosses they do something funny like "the green money soars as the green girl soars." So this week they used Matilda, but I didn't see the entire title and only saw a picture with the current girls who rotate the title role. I literally had a 10 minute breakdown, because I thought it was an announcement for a Matilda closure. Then I moved the page up and saw the title of the post and then I regained my happiness. This got me wondering could Matilda last longer than billy Elliot did and get to its 5th anniversary? I love this show so much and I only want it to keep on succeeding in anyway possible. I really hope this isn't it's last year. I know it hasn't been doing well in the slow weeks, but it seems to do well enough in the the tourist seasons to help it last through the year. I heard it has an 800,000 operating cost, but is that still the cost since they've already recouped?
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#2Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/5/16 at 11:13pm
Part of me believes that it will survive, but part of me doesn't... I noticed that the show goes through trends where it has amazing weeks, and then it crashes and does poorly. Maybe it's better off being a seasonal show? Over the holidays, it does amazing. We can only hope it will make it to it's 5th year... maybe even past that? I would be devastated if this show closed.
#3Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/5/16 at 11:21pm
You literally had a 10 minute breakdown? I mean, I love Matilda a lot, but wow, I hope you don't mean that LITERALLY.
#4Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/5/16 at 11:22pm
It is never good to get THAT attached to something.
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#5Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/5/16 at 11:32pm
What is Matilda's nut? Has it reached $900,000?
Updated On: 4/5/16 at 11:32 PM
BroadwayConcierge
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#7Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/5/16 at 11:59pm
JBroadway, don't you know literally means figuratively?
about matildas nut, I remember reading in order for Matilda to recoup faster they put in their recoupment into their weekly budget which increased their operating costs. I'm just assuming now since they don't need to recoup anything more if that is still apart of their budget or is their total budget lower.
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My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
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#8Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 12:04am
BroadwayConcierge said: "Wow, that was a roller coaster of a post to read.
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I second that.
#9Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 12:24am
Call_me_jorge said: "JBroadway, don't you know literally means figuratively?"
My mistake.
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#10Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 1:25am
And I came in here thinking it was going to be a story about a Matilda having a freak out on stage for some reason, like a new girl going on for the first time. lol
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#11Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 1:42am
I also want this show to succeed in every possible way it can! I just saw the tour (exactly) two weeks ago in Chicago, and I fell in love with it. I would be truly disappointed if it closed so soon. This tour was (apparently) very troubled, and yet I had an incredible time! I can only imagine how grand it is on Broadway. It's a beautiful show in every aspect (IMO). It deserves a long, heathy run (again, IMO). I completely see why it's the record holder for most Laurence Oliver Awards for a musical.
#12Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 3:22am
May I ask what made the tour so troubled? I saw the tour in Philly back in November and it was wonderful from top to bottom and reminded me of why I loved the show in the first place.
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#13Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 5:39am
veronicamae said: "And I came in here thinking it was going to be a story about a Matilda having a freak out on stage for some reason, like a new girl going on for the first time. lol
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Thought the same.
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#14Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 7:10am
I did as well. Dont title your posts like clickbait please.
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#15Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 8:12am
JBroadway said: "You literally had a 10 minute breakdown? I mean, I love Matilda a lot, but wow, I hope you don't mean that LITERALLY.
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I doubt he meant it that way.
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#16Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 8:18am
KCW said: "I did as well. Dont title your posts like clickbait please.
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To be fair I did have a freak out about Matilda.
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
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#17Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 9:23am
I thought this thread was going to be about Nicki Cochrane.
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#19Matilda freak out
Posted: 4/6/16 at 9:52am
veronicamae said: "And I came in here thinking it was going to be a story about a Matilda having a freak out on stage for some reason, like a new girl going on for the first time. lol
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That's exactly what I thought. Or maybe some kid in the audience freaked out when confronted with Miss Trunchbull (which I have seen to some degree). The actual post was not at all what I expected...LOL
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