The act of turning movies into musicals is commonplace these days, and over the years a number of musicals have gone the other way, jumping from the stage onto screens up and down the country. From Mamma Mia to Dear Evan Hansen, I’m sure that I am not the only one thinking that sometimes stage musical movie adaptations work and sometimes they don’t. The latest stage production to receive the silver screen treatment is Roald Dahl’s Matilda the musical, and let’s say this strai