Take a first look at the showstopping number in the new video clip below! Matilda the Musical is set to debut in U.S. theaters on December 9 with a Netflix release on December 25.

Emma Thompson sat down on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to discuss playing Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical. During the interview, a clip of Thompson singing 'Smell of Rebellion' from ...

The bare bones of the plot are this: Matilda is unwanted and unloved by her anti-intellectual and ethically challenged parents, which the show repeatedly explains in a very lengthy opening sequence.