mardi 30 décembre 2014

A New-York Christmas (3): Matilda! (Proud to be Naughty)

Ma première soirée à New-York avait tout d'un conte de fées. J'ai laissé l'amie qui m'hébergeait choisir un restaurantprès de Broadway, et elle a opté pour Bubba Gump. Même si je n'aime pas les crvettes, rien que le décor valait le détour : un véritable temple en hommage à Forrest Gump.

To start off my first fairy tale night in New York, I let the friend hosting me pick a restaurant and she decided to try Bubba Gump. I don't like shrimps and I have to admit I have never even seen Forrest Gump in its entirety, but it was still a very interesting and fun place.

It's funny how sometimes, it's harder to find "American" food in the US than in France. It's such a melting pot here. But Bubba Gump was as typical as I could have wished. The bits of newspaper you see was a cone full of tiny onion rings.

Et ensuite, place à l'excitation générale : Broadway ! Comédies musicales ! Matilda ! Matilda, c'est l'un de mes romans favoris de Roald Dahl, l'histoire d'une petite Britannique précoce dotée d'un amour de la lecture, d'une famille cassos, d'une directrice d'école lanceuse olympique de marteau terrifiante, d'une maîtresse d'école de rêve (Miss Candy dans la traduction fraçaise, Miss Honey en version originale)... et de pouvoirs magiques ! Entre livres, magie, "mais maman, elle est où l'assistante sociale ?" et un prénom presque semblable au mien, pas étonnant que Matilda ait été mon livre préféré au CE1.

Alors forcément, quand en planifiant mon voyage à New York, j'ai voulu tenté l'expérience Broadway, ça n'a pas été difficile de choisir Matilda The Musical. D'origine britannique, et primé plein de fois aux Tonys, il n'y avait pas de raisons d'être déçue.
Matilda, the Roald Dahl heroin, shares a first name and a love of books with me. Plus she has magic powers. And frankly, she could have used a social worker like my mom in her life. All of this made then novel a favourite in 2d grade (and beyond). So, when I planned to come to New York, as I knew I wanted to experience Broadway and see a musical for the first time in my life, it was easy to pick. "Les Miz" has me grind my teeth every time I hear the name, because the idea of Fantine singing her despair when she is supposed to have sold her teeth is just ludicrous. Also, throw me tomatoes, but I don't care much for The Lion King. Anyway, my friend was as excited as I was for Matilda the musical, so off we went, giggling like school girls.



The stage was AMAZING. Well,  the whole experience was, really, but that stage... so many surprises! I kept my mouth wide opened the whole two horus as school desks popped from the floor, little girls went flying into the public, swings fell from the ceiling and the horrible Trunchbull crossed the space after jumping on a trampoline. 

Yeah, I stole a picture of one of the perfomers during the intermission. This is Mr. Wormwood, Matilda's rotten car dealer father. It was hilarious. The songs were amazing. I felt 8 again (can you start to see a pattern with my first day in NY ?). Singing "Naughty" and seeing Matilda turn her father's hair green was just as exciting as in 2d grade. It was the best of nights, and the songs are still stuck in my head 3 weeks later.
C'était génial !!!!!!!!!! Les décors surprenaient toutes les minutes, les chansons étaient entrainantes, les costumes tirés tout droit des illustrations chéries de Quentin Blake, les acteurs/chanteurs excellents, enfants comme adultes, les effets spéciaux m'ont laissé la bouche ouverte la moitié du spectacle, l'ambiance était survoltéee quand les écoliers ont commencé à se rebeller, les répliques hilarantes. Bref, un spectacle grandiose et une soirée vraiment inoubliable. En guise de bonus, une petite vidéo pour vous en faire partager un peu la magie. Désolée si à vous aussi, les chansons restent coincées dans la tête pendant trois semaines!




205. Voir une comédie musicale sur Broadway.

2 commentaires:

  1. Glad you had fun and realized a dream. Les Mis is my favorite musical ever! In the US and UK version, she sings I Dreamed a Dream and then she sells her locket, her hair and her teeth. By teeth they mean back teeth or eye teeth. They were very valuable. Anne Hathaway gives a more toothless portrayal in the movie, which switched around the order of scenes a bit.

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  2. Oh I see, that actually makes so much more sense. The songs are really nice. It's just that to me, Les Misérables is too much of a novel masterpiece to be efficiently transposed.

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