Exclusive | Hit West End musical Matilda postpones Hong Kong dates amid fears for safety and well-being of cast as protests continue
- The show, based on the children’s classic by Roald Dahl, was set to run for a month from September 20 at Lyric Theatre in Wan Chai
- Theatre company cannot guarantee safety and well-being of cast, boss says, while revealing civil unrest has decimated ticket sales
Multi-award-winning musical Matilda, which is set to open in Hong Kong next Friday, will postpone its forthcoming performances in the protest-stricken city, the Post learned on Thursday.
The musical, which premiered in London’s West End and was inspired by the classic children’s book of the same name by British writer Roald Dahl, was set to run in the Lyric Theatre at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in Wan Chai for a month from September 20, having earlier extended its planned run by two weeks.
A source said the cast and crew would not be travelling to Hong Kong after September shows in mainland China.
The show was originally expected to come to Hong Kong for a month before continuing the tour on the mainland in November.
Performances in Sri Lanka were also postponed from June to next year after a series of bombings in the country in April.
On Thursday afternoon, HK Ticketing’s website stated that tickets to the event were no longer on sale, but earlier in the day several shows had been shown as not sold out.
