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Year 34, No. 11
Celebrating 34 Years of Community News
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical at the Walnut Street Theatre
November 7 – November 13, 2018
Friday Night Live Concert Features Emily Drinker
alnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 210th season with Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical. Directed by Linda Goodrich, with choreography by Michelle Gaudette, Matilda The Musical began previews on November 6, opens on November 14, and runs through January 6 on the Walnut’s Mainstage.
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Ellie Biron and Jemma Bleu Greenbaum in “Matilda the Musical” at the Walnut Street Theatre. Photo/Mark Garvin Based on the beloved Roald Dahl novel, Matilda The Musical is the story of the courageous little girl with an unbounded imagination who proves that despite the odds, you can do anything you put your mind to—and change your destiny. Children and adults alike will be thrilled and delighted by this Broadway hit and winner of 16 Best Musical awards! The 1988 children’s novel of Matilda recently celebrated its 30th birthday! Written by British writer Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), it received critical acclaim and in 2016 became Dahl’s top-selling book. In 1996, the novel was made into a film that was directed by Danny DeVito and starred a young Mara Wilson. In 2010, Matilda The Musical opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in London. It featured a book by playwright Dennis Kelly and music and lyrics by Australian comedian Tim Minchin (who went on to write the music for Groundhog Day in 2016). Due to its success at the RSC, the following year it transferred to the West End – where it still runs to this day. In 2013, it opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards®. The musical has since gone on national and international tours and has opened productions in the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Toronto, and Korea. In London, it holds the record, along with Hamilton, for the most Olivier Awards won by a musical (7). Linda Goodrich returns to direct Matilda The Musical, after choreographing both Christmas Story (2015) and Mary Poppins (2014). She has directed and choreographed for theatres See “Matilda The Musical” at the Walnut Street Theatre page 8
Festival favorite, singer-songwriter Emily Drinker, closes out the fall Friday Night Live concert series at Community Arts Center, 414 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA, on November 16. For information, visit www.communityartscenter.org. riday Night Live’s fall season wraps up on November 16 with live music by Emily Drinker and live art by Seth Mushrush, Justin Benn, and Jeannie Moberly at Community Arts Center, 414 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford. Doors open at 7 p.m., complimentary snacks are provided and attendees are also welcome to bring their own food and beverages. All ages welcome. Minors must be accompanied by an adult (Guests must be 21 to bring or consume alcohol). Admission is $15 per person, $10 for Community Arts Center members and free to CAC benefactors. Children 12 and under $5. Emily Drinker is an award-winning singer-songwriter based in Philadelphia. Emily blends folk, soul, and pop, playing orig-
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Azuka Theatre Presents East Coast Premiere of “Warplay” by JC Lee and how the constant shadow ot on the heels of 13 nomof war may warp us all. The cast inations for The Barrymore includes Jeff Gorcyca as A and Awards for Excellence in James Kern as P. Theatre, Azuka Theatre presents “Warplay” was commissioned their brand new season. For 2018 and developed as part of New - 2019, Azuka will examine and Conservatory Theatre Center’s dissect masculinity—its perils, its pitfalls. Azuka will focus attenSee James Kern (P) and tion to people on the sidelines Jeff Gorcyca (A) in Azuka – the “also-rans” – beginning with Theatre’s production of JC Lee’s re-imagining of a clas“Warplay.” Photo/Azuka sic war-time relationship in Theatre “Warplay,” which opened October 31, 2018. Then Azuka Theatre New Play Development Lab. Playpresents Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s wright JC Lee’s play Luce receivstory of a man’s journey to beed its world premiere in 2013 come “great,” and closes with a at Lincoln Center Theater. Lee’s world premiere by Philadelphia plays have been developed and playwright Emily Acker which staged at The Old Globe Theatre considers whether men in power in San Diego, Center Theatre Group, feel entitled to exploit it. Williamstown Theatre Festival, Currently running through Marin Theatre Company, Magic November 18, “Warplay” is a poetic and funny re-imagining of the relationship between Achilles and Theatre, Azuka Theatre Company, and other theatres across the country. A Patroclus, “Warplay” requires us to reexamine our assumptions about hero- graduate of The Julliard School and Bloomsburg University, he was a writer ism and love. The journey of A & P is a meditation on male intimacy, destiny, See Azuka Theatre’s “Warplay” page 4
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