{"id":305785,"date":"2025-07-31T05:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305785\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:20:23","slug":"matilda-the-musical-coming-to-bristol-hippodrome-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305785\/","title":{"rendered":"Matilda The Musical coming to Bristol Hippodrome in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The show, based on Roald Dahl&#8217;s classic book, will star Madison Davis, Mollie Hutton, Olivia Ironmonger, and Sanna Kurihara, who will share the role of Matilda.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They will be joined by Richard Hurst as Miss Trunchbull, Tessa Kadler as Miss Honey, Adam Stafford as Mr Wormwood, and Rebecca Thornhill as Mrs Wormwood.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The production, celebrating 15 years on stage, will begin performances at the Curve in Leicester on Monday, October 6.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After Leicester, the Royal Shakespeare Company\u2019s production will travel to cities including Bradford, Liverpool, Plymouth, and more, before arriving at the Bristol Hippodrome, from Tuesday, June 2 to Saturday, June 27, 2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tickets for the Bristol shows can be purchased at <a href=\"http:\/\/atgtickets.com\/venues\/bristol-hippodrome\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">atgtickets.com\/venues\/bristol-hippodrome<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The musical, which features music and lyrics written by Tim Minchin, has been a massive success internationally, playing to audiences across 100 cities worldwide.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It has been seen by 12m people and has won more than 100 awards globally, including 24 for Best Musical.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Matilda The Musical tells the story of a strong-willed young girl with a vivid imagination.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The show has also been adapted into a film, which had its world premiere at the London Film Festival in October 2022 and is now available to watch on Netflix.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The creative team behind the successful musical includes writer Dennis Kelly, director Matthew Warchus, and set designer Rob Howell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Choreography has been handled by Peter Darling, while Christopher Nightingale contributes orchestrations, additional music, and musical supervision.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Lighting is by Hugh Vanstone, sound by Simon Baker, and special effects and illusions by Paul Kieve.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Returning to the touring cast are performers Scotty Armstrong, Sam Holden, Portia Jefferies, and others.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, Rudy Bragg, Jacob Connor-Ashton, Charlie Cox, and other young talents have also been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The show, based on Roald Dahl&#8217;s classic book, will star Madison Davis, Mollie Hutton, Olivia Ironmonger, and Sanna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114946167468825037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}