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In The Making!
Being Matilda
Interestingly, while their families couldn’t be more different,
there are some notable similarities be-tween Allie and the
character she played in Matilda the Musical
to Florida Virtual School in 2019, to better accommodate her
rehearsals and performances, Allie was a straight-A student
at Pine View School — no small feat, as Pine View, is solely for
about Matilda is that she’s
Allie played Matilda with
set in England, and Allie
learned her lines and
songs partly by listening to
musical, in which Matilda and the
rest of the cast speak with British
would demonstrate, her eyes lit
Warming to her audience, she
Allie is witty and comfortable talking
to anyone and singing in front of
being in the (literal) spotlight, she is
attention, the way some kids
A Fearless Starlet
Being cast in The Sound of Music
pages of lines for Matilda the Musical
As Allie talked to me about how sad she was when The Sound of
Music
entertaining people since she could walk and talk, her parents