"You have to go back to The Lion King to find a show with as much invention, spirit and genre-re-defining verve, " Zoglin wrote in his review.
BBC: Matilda's 'marvellous' Broadway debut hailed by critics
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"It would be easy to call it the best British musical since Billy Elliot, but that, I'm afraid, would be underselling it, " said Richard Zoglin in TIME Magazine.
BBC: Matilda's 'marvellous' Broadway debut hailed by critics