Matilda the Musical AT NCS

5/9/2025

Featured above is Pietra Fischer ‘26 (center), Lilly Lenkowski ‘28 (center left), Garima Patel ‘28 (left), and many more students from the NCS Upper and Middle School participating in this year’s spring musical Matilda. The students above are members of the ensemble playing students attending the school that Matilda goes to. In this particular scene they are singing the “School Song” which introduces the main character Matilda as well as other new students to their school. On April 10 the Matilda cast performed scenes of the musical for Middle and Upper School students before putting on the full musical April 11-12. Mary Huff ‘31 headlined as the lead, Matilda, who is a young girl that feels misunderstood by her parents because she likes to read books but when she starts attending school where she meets her welcoming teacher Mrs. Honey, she finally feels accepted and she ends up being adopted by Mrs. Honey in the end. Emily Nguyen ‘27, who played one of the main characters in the musical Miss Honey, stated that “this was my first time being in a musical production, yet everyone in the cast was super welcoming and nice to me.” Photo by Morgan Kemp

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