[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Matilda the Musical opened in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2010 – quickly moving to the West End, where it still resides – the British press greeted it as an “anarchically joyous, gleefully nasty” antidote to the sugary concoctions of other kid-centered musicals. (That reference to Stratford, by the way, isn’t a misprint. The show was commissioned […]
