Matilda Tour To Hold Auditions

Matilda Tour To Hold Auditions

21-11-24

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s smash hit production of Matilda The Musical, based on Roald Dahl’s beloved book will hold auditions for Matilda and her classmates in Manchester in February and March 2025. This is for the upcoming tour of the UK and Ireland which opens in Leicester on 6 October 2025 and runs until June 2026, including performances at Manchester Palace from 26 March – 25 April 2026. There is further information about how to audition HERE.

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The producers of the Matilda The Musical tour will audition children for the role of Matilda who are aged 9 to 12 on 1 July 2025, and under 4’3” tall. Her classmates need to be aged 9 to 13 on 1 July 2025. Boys must be under 4’10” tall, and girls must be under 4’6” tall, with brilliant dancing and singing skills! Boys must have unbroken voices. Rehearsals will take place in July and August 2025 in Manchester and London, and performances will be from October 2025 to June 2026, on tour.

All children must be available for the entire rehearsal and performance period. At the audition, children will be asked to perform a short poem, speech or monologue. They will also be asked to sing something and will be taught a dance from the show. All children cast for all the roles need to live within travelling distance (an hour’s drive time) of central Manchester, so they can live at home and attend their own schools.

The internationally renowned musical – which continues to play to packed houses in the West End at the Cambridge Theatre and has been seen by 12 million people across 100 cities around the world – will begin performances in Leicester on 6 October 2025.

The show will celebrate its 15-year anniversary when it opens at Curve, Leicester in October 2025, before travelling to Bradford, Liverpool, Plymouth, Sunderland, Edinburgh and Manchester. Further tour dates will be announced later this year.

This anarchic production, about a strong and determined heroine with a vivid imagination, has won over 100 global awards, including 24 for Best Musical. The award-winning film adaptation made by the core creative team received its World Premiere at the London Film Festival in October 2022, was on BBC1 this Christmas and can be watched on Netflix.

Written by Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and developed and directed by Matthew Warchus, the production is designed by Rob Howell, with choreography by Peter Darling, orchestrations, additional music and musical supervision by Christopher Nightingale, lighting by Hugh Vanstone, sound by Simon Baker and special effects and illusions by Paul Kieve.

Casting and further creative team details will be announced in due course.

For all tour booking information visit the official site HERE.