Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch
The magic is back — louder, brighter, and far more dangerous than anyone could have imagined. Matilda: The Musical 2 — Rise of the Miracle Maker transforms the iconic tale into a breathtaking new chapter filled with soaring music, mischievous brilliance, and an uprising of imagination powerful enough to shake the foundations of Crunchem Hall itself.
This time, Matilda Wormwood (Alisha Weir) isn’t just a clever girl with a knack for telekinesis — she’s a rising legend. Now entering her teenage years, Matilda’s abilities have intensified, growing wild and unpredictable as her emotions deepen. Her imagination no longer just creates stories… it begins to bend the world around her. The stage lights flicker, the air hums with invisible energy, and every stomp of her foot sends ripples through reality.
Alisha Weir delivers a magnetic, electrifying performance, turning Matilda into a young visionary whose courage blazes with new force.
Beside her stands Miss Honey (Lashana Lynch), warm, patient, and stronger than ever — but finally confronting secrets from her own history. As Matilda’s powers evolve, so do the shadows lurking behind Miss Honey’s gentle smile. Old traumas resurface, new threats emerge, and Miss Honey discovers that guiding a miracle-maker is far more complicated than she ever dreamed.
And though Miss Trunchbull (Emma Thompson) is long gone, her sinister influence refuses to die. Her cruel philosophies echo through dusty hallways, through frightened teachers, through the whispers of a world terrified of gifted children. Rumors spread of an underground movement determined to restore Trunchbull’s “glorious discipline,” and a mysterious new figure rises to take up her mantle… someone far more cunning.
Crunchem Hall is transforming — bright murals, open books, laughter, and creativity now fill the school. But change invites resistance. The arrival of a new interim headmistress, all sugary sweetness and sinister intentions, threatens everything Matilda and Miss Honey have built. Behind her plastic smile hides a cold ambition: reshape the school into a rigid institution where fear reigns and imagination is stamped out.
To her, Matilda is not a miracle — she’s a dangerous anomaly.
Soon, strange things begin happening. New students arrive — quiet, observant, and far too gifted to be ordinary. Desks levitate. Lights flicker. Books rearrange themselves. Matilda isn’t the only one with powers anymore. A spark becomes a pattern. A pattern becomes a mystery. And that mystery leads Matilda to a secret buried beneath decades of lies:
⭐ a covert society of gifted children hidden and suppressed for generations,
⭐ a corrupt education board determined to erase them from history,
⭐ a hidden vault of forbidden documents, revealing dark experiments once conducted under Trunchbull’s rule,
⭐ and a rising rebellion that believes Matilda is the long-awaited “Miracle Maker” destined to free them.
As tensions escalate, the school erupts into a dazzling musical battleground where imagination becomes a weapon and creativity becomes an act of revolution. Trembling lights pulse with Matilda’s fury, hallways swirl with swirling pages, and a breathtaking, show-stopping finale transforms the stage into a living storybook bursting with color, chaos, and liberation.
But Matilda also faces a terrifying discovery:
Her powers are changing — evolving — growing beyond her control. Each emotion, each musical note, each act of defiance feeds the storm inside her. She must decide whether to master her abilities… or be consumed by them.
Rise of the Miracle Maker is a triumphant, emotional, and wildly magical celebration of the courage it takes to be different, the strength found in community, and the unstoppable force of a child who refuses to let fear write her future.
Bold, heartwarming, rebellious — this sequel turns imagination into revolution and redefines what it truly means to be extraordinary.