Matilda the new Annie?
Matilda the new Annie?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 3:49am
In what way? Strictly because if has a girl lead? From all accounts, this sounds more appealing for older kids and adults than it does for little kids.
And since I really detest Annie, I hope not.
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#2Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 7:17amI think it's the new Book of Mormon.
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#3Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 11:56amHaving seen MATILDA last week, I realize the superficial similarities to ANNIE. However, MATILDA is a much darker, more sardonic piece. It has a very different attitude and tone. I think it will be successful, but not as much so as ANNIE has been. I'm not talking about the quality of the shows, just what I perceive to be their appeal for U.S. audiences.
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#4Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 12:39pmI think Matilda will attract some of the same audiences as Annie, yes. But, since Annie has been around so long and performed so much by everyone and their mothers, I think it'll take a lot to get it to be as popular as Annie.
#5Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 1:05pmI don't think it's any more the new Annie than The Secret Garden was the new Annie. Or that Billy Elliot was the new Oliver.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/12
#6Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 1:52pmMatilda is its own beast. Way more precise choreography, no dull moments, an amazing show.
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Understudy Joined: 10/12/12
#7Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:21pm
Annie is a Broadway classic - including it's songs.
While Matilda might be entertaining, it lacks tunes that will be around for a long time.
#8Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:23pmHaving seen both...Matilda is no Annie. It lacks the charm, the music is inferior in every way, and Annie's truly an American classic. Remains to be seen if Matilda will have even 1/3 of the staying power Annie has.
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#9Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:24pm"Miracle", "Naughty", "When I Grow Up" and "Revolting Children" are very catchy! I was pleasantly surprised to see a musical with songs that stuck in my head after it was over.
#10Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:26pmI haven't seen Matilda, but I found its score endearing and catchy from the first time I listened to the CD. Especially Miracle, which pops into my head every time I think about the show.
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#11Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:28pmI would be shocked if in 50 years, people are talking about any of the songs from Matilda the way people talk about "Tomorrow" or "It's a Hard Knock Life", etc.
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#12Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:30pmNo. Mainly because Matilda is good and Annie really isn't.
#13Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:32pm
Yup. You're right. Annie is an awful piece of crap. That's why no one likes it and the show has never been revived and has been left to collect dust with all the other terrible shows that are its equals.
Like Annie or don't, to say it's objectively devoid of quality is insane.
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#14Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:37pm
People don't go humming any tunes from Sunday in the Park With George, but that doesn't mean the score is bad. The score of Matilda has a different function than that of Annie. It's meant to be darker, dryer, and more introspective whereas Annie is outright cheerful. Even the sad songs are peppy.
I don't think you'd ever call Matilda an "American classic" anyway. It's a British musical. And this is not one (I suspect) that will play in every elementary and middle school the way Annie has, does, and will.
#15Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:47pmYeah, I really would not compare Matilda to Sunday in the Park with George. I wouldn't equate the lack of catchiness and pep with it being somehow better or more mature. To me, it's just mediocre songwriting.
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#16Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:51pm
That's fine. :)
I thought the lyrics were very clever and the music provoking. Maybe not as pleasing a score as Annie, but it definitely has its merits.
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#17Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 3/11/13 at 2:53pmThe score to Matilda to me isn't as appealing as Annie. A lot of things have to happen before or if Matilda is to become the "new" Annie. As Kelly2 said, 50 years from now, people will still be humming the songs from Annie. Annie is a classic. No doubt Matilda will be a hit, but I wouldn't bet on it joining the list of Broadway classics.
#18Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 4/13/13 at 12:59am
The lyrics are on a different tier to Annie (that is, they are very sophisticated, clever and funny). I challenge you to find a moment where Annie sings lyrics as smooth and witty as the lyrics in "Naughty". I also prefer the overall message of Matilda compared to Annie (although I have only heard the Matilda score, so I apologise if this isn't quite what is shown on stage).
In ANNIE, the overall message seems to be all about being lucky, staying overly positive and looking on the bright side. In MATILDA, the message is that you need to get up and so something about it, and is very much pro-intellectualism. Matilda didn't need a rich "Daddy" to come and solve her problems (you know I realise this is what After Eight might need).
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#19Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 4/13/13 at 1:35amI love the sophistication of "No one cares for you a smidge, when you're in an orphanage."
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#20Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 4/13/13 at 2:05am
People actively talk about "Tomorrow" and "Hard Knock Life"? I'm pretty glad I don't travel in those circles.
Mamma Mia has staying power....doesn't make it good.
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#21Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 4/13/13 at 7:28am
>> Mamma Mia has staying power....doesn't make it good.
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#22Matilda the new Annie?
Posted: 4/13/13 at 7:40am
"People don't go humming any tunes from Sunday in the Park With George, but that doesn't mean the score is bad."
It's not proof that it's bad, it's one of the results of its being bad.
As for Matilda, one would be hard put to call its songs music at all. They're more like a collection of notes, none of them attractive. Actually, the same could be said of Sunday in the Park With George!
Both of them are like so much watery gruel.
Updated On: 4/13/13 at 07:40 AM
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