The two will alternate every other performance over the three-week “Matilda” run. She can move things with her eyes,” added the 10-year-old Salzer. When I go to see shows, sometimes I wish that I could be in them, but I really wanted to be Matilda. “I thought it would be a great opportunity.
It’s such a great show and script,” said the 12-year-old Sanchez.
“I always loved the movie and I thought it would be a fun show to do. Traditionally played, but with more than one actress, I visited with the two Matilda’s and local director Jennifer Rose last week and asked why they wanted to do the musical. Matilda’s bestie, Lavender (Lucia Romero and Olivia Robinson), joins her in a practical joke on Miss Trunchbull by placing a newt in her jug of water. In retaliation, Matilda pulls pranks such as gluing her father’s hat to his head, hiding a parrot in the chimney, and covertly dying her father’s hair. The school’s malicious headmistress, Miss Trunchbull (Dale Button), loathes children and enjoys fashioning cruel and outrageous punishments for those who don’t abide by her rules. Yet even under Miss Honey’s watch, Matilda’s school life is far from congenial. She’s unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her schoolteacher, the highly loveable Miss Honey (Sara Jelley). Matilda (locally played by two child actors, Calilynn Salzer and Shaylah Sanchez) is a little girl with astonishing wit, hyper intelligence, immense confidence and leadership skills, oh, and she has psychokinetic powers.