8 Differences Between "Matilda: The Musical" and the Original Roald Dahl Book

The book sketches in some of Miss Honey's backstory, revealing that she is actually the niece of the sadistic headmistress Miss Trunchbull, and that Trunchbull has been bullying her and stealing her inheritance from her late father, Dr. Magnus Honey. In the musical, her story gets a different twist. Her father was not a doctor, but an escapologist, and it turns out that Matilda has actually been telling the story of Miss Honey's family all along.