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Willow McCarthy and Ava Briglia perform "Roar"

Matildapalooza 2/17/17

since it was just ava and willow, i figured i’d film this just in case no one else had captured it as a duet.  so cute, these two.

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Matilda’s Closing Night Curtain Call

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Willow McCarthy / January 1st, 2017

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not doing a full review of the last (and fourth-to-last, aka ava’s last) show(s), but i have to say, jennifer blood improved a LOT between october and the last few shows.

i still don’t like her voice, singing or speaking, but that’s still 1000% not her fault.  and her accent is still kind of all over the place, but seeing as how she’s had to perform first with the full accent, then no accent, then the “sort-of-british” broadway accent, i think i can’t really blame her.

still not the warmest miss honey, but i really, really ended up liking her acting.  she played her as really, really, socially awkward and painfully shy, which i can relate.  for example, usually during the little wave during pathetic, most miss honeys smile wide an pretend nothing’s wrong; jen blood ducked her head, looked away from the “person” she was waving at and barely acknowledged them.  she avoided eye contact with other characters a LOT.  i ended up loving the way she delivered “it is my intention to help this little girl, whether you like it or not.”  i loved the way she was so full of rage during the final classroom scene but was still so repressed she never raised her voice once.  the shyness made it more understandable that she’d seem a little cold; she just wasn’t really comfortable interacting with anyone, including matilda, and my god, the way she tried to smile and make “everything’s just great!” faces during my house, until she was turned away from matilda and just totally deflated, only to put the fake smile back on when she went back to her seat and was “talking” to matilda again?  damn well-executed.

and damned if i didn’t love how she started off bruce making “no, stop, you seriously don’t have to do this, this is a terrible idea” gestures at evan and ended it with these encouraging “you can do it, try it this way, you got this!” gestures and expressions.  it was just really endearing. 

still probably the weakest of the broadway miss honeys for me (i never saw ashley but have seen the others), but i did like her a lot more these last two shows. 

also can i just add how cute/awesome willow’s outraged faces while her father was bragging about cheating the russians were??  it was definitely the best performance i’ve seen from willow.  and i’m glad i got to see madison and trey once each before closing, though i do wish i’d seen trey as bruce.

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Final pose.