Matilda the Musical scoops Green Room Awards

The popular musical, based on the Roald Dahl novel and featuring music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, won eight of the twelve categories it was nominated in.

27 Mar 2017

Richard Watts

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Performing Arts

A scene from Matilda the Musical. Photo by James Morgan.

Hosted by Green Room Awards Association patron, Julia Zemiro, Melbourne’s professional performing arts awards – the Green Room Awards – were presented at the Comedy Theatre on Monday night.

The peer-judged awards honour the best work presented on Melbourne stages in 2016 across seven major categories, including Dance, Opera and Music Theatre.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts