"Evaluation of Musical Matilda "

In 27th of January my class took part in musical –“The Best of British” where we’ve done some scenes from different musicals. One of them was musical “Matilda “where we playing revolting children from school. “Matilda the Musical is a stage musical based on the children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was written by Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin. The musical's narrative centre on Matilda, a precocious 5-year-old girl who loves reading, overcomes obstacles caused by her family and school, and helps her teacher to reclaim her life.”

Our exercise in this scene was to find our characters and bring them alive into musical. We could choose some characters from there or make your own. Before this exercise I read a lot in internet about this musical and characters which play there. I read about their life, hobby and how look was like their relationship with main heroine. I made my own character which was a naughty girl with strong character which likes make a jokes (I made small aeroplanes and I was throwing to audience while performance) and break of any rules. Her relationship with children in the class was good and they kept all together and pretended like one family as you can find on the video.

This showcase was divided into 2 parts of choreographies .First part we dance around the chairs and the next one without them. In second part we had many moves in all stage which show the best naughty children. Actually both sections were powerful because we put a lot of energy into them. For me more interesting was first part of choreography because showed the best how we were building the story, energy and tension of that showcase. Also what helps us to make this show good was preparing before this performing. Everyone worked really hard, found own character and showed them the best in musical. While rehearsals everyone was focus, had good energy and dynamic. At the lessons our communication was really good between each other. Also we tried project good ideas to make this musical better, different and more interesting from the original version.

In my opinion I think I’ve done really well in this showcase. I put a lot of energy, emphasis to make all choreography better and better all the time at every lesson.  Also I worked hard over strength, flexibility, dynamic and vocals which was important as well in that peace. Also I think my stamina and rhythmic control was good as well. For the next showcase I need to work out little be over timing (specially as a group) and still develop my dancing and singing skills by practising them all the time.  Also I can say as a group we performed this peace confidently with good mood by effectively using characterisation and expression to the audience.   I really enjoyed this performance and I had fun like everyone from my class. I hope the next performance will be that good like this or even better than that.