Even if Matilda the Musical maintains the basic plot of Roald Dahl’s book Matilda, the musical still differs from its source material in some major ways. Matilda the Musical is a film based on the famous children’s novel – Matilda, written by the British novelist Roald Dahl in 1988. However, much like the book’s previous screen adaptation, Danny DeVito’s Matilda in 1996, Matilda the Musical takes a few creative liberties and departs from the book’s narration in various instances during the film.
