Tim has won the 2012 Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer for Tim Minchin vs The Orchestras Round II.
This is Tim’s third Helpmann. Last year he won the 2011 Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work with Tim Minchin Vs Sydney Symphony and back in 2009 he won the Award for Best Comedy Performer for his show Ready For This?
The prestigious Helpmann Awards, established in 2001 by Live Performance Australia, were announced this evening, at their 12th annual awards ceremony at the Sydney Opera House. They recognise excellence in many areas of Australian live performance, including musical theatre, contemporary music, classical music, comedy, opera, theatre and dance.
You can find more information about the awards including the full list of nominees in Tim’s category and indeed all the others here. The full 2012 winners list will also appear shortly.
Tonight, Tim hits the stage at the O2, for the first time as Judas in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s spectacular UK arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar.
To coincide with opening night, we’re pleased to announce that there will be a DVD and Blu-ray release of the show coming out on the 19th November 2012.
Along with Tim in the role of Judas Iscariot, the fabulous line up includes Melanie C as Mary Magdalene, Chris Moyles as King Herod and Winner of the ITV primetime show SuperstarBen Forster in the title role of Jesus. For more information about the show visit the Jesus Christ Superstar website or our previous blog here.
The show will be filmed live as part of the 2012 arena tour, so you’ll be able to relive it if you’re lucky enough to have tickets or to experience it fresh if you’re not able to make it along to any of the dates.
This evening at 7.15pm on BBC Radio 4 you can tune in to Front Row to hear Tim, Mel C and Chris Moyles talking to Mark Lawson about staring in the first ever UK arena tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar which is opening at the O2 this Friday.
The programme will be available shortly after it airs on the BBC iPlayer. Update: It is now up here and will be available until January 2099. Seriously! So plenty of time to listen.
Earlier today Tim and Mel C popped in to see Huw Stephenson BBC Radio 1, to chat about rehearsing together and inevitably hair/wigs. Update: This is now up on the BBC iPlayerhere. It is just a 10 minute interview starting at about 1:39 and will be available for 6 days.
If you somehow missed the announcement that Tim is playing Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar you can catch-up by looking back at our May announcement here or visit www.jesuschristsuperstar.com for details and tickets.
Updated 20th Sept’ 2012 to add direct iPlayer links.
Showtime have announced the date for the premiere of the sixth season of Californication!
The first episode will go out on Sunday 13th January 2013 at 10:30pm ET/PT. It’s a long time to wait, but we’ll be sure to post a reminder for you closer to the time.
If you’re wondering why this is a big deal, that’ll be because Tim’s playing the coked-up rock star Atticus Fetch in most of the episodes, adapting Hank’s first novel, God Hates Us All, into a musical.
With other characters announced including Fetch’s wife, a professional groupie and Marilyn Manson, it’s sure to be one hell of season!
I loaned my sexy vocal folds to Adam and Tracy and Dan for the duration of this cool animation. Here’s Tracy to tell you more about it:
Tim and Adam Rutherford at the vocal recording
DC Turner checking the storyboard at the vocal recording
Tracy King:Last year saw the release of Storm, the ten-minute animated beat poem that became somewhat of an anthem for critical thinking and enabled my partner, Dan ‘DC’ Turner, and myself to start an animation and game dev company to make more of the same.
On Monday we released the second of our ‘public engagement with science’ films, this time a four-minute short commissioned by Nature to celebrate and communicate ENCODE, a huge genome data project.
The short is called ‘The Story of You‘, and is narrated by Tim. When Nature told us Tim would do the voiceover, my first reaction was “yay!” followed by “oh wait that means listening to that voice 12 hours a day for months…again”.
The end result is something we’re very proud of. I’m not a scientist, I’m a science enthusiast, and think one of the best ways educating is to inspire people to educate themselves. This is easily done through entertainment. The science of genomics is not straightforward, but the ideas are – and if you can communicate those whilst making viewers smile or laugh, they’ll feel good about the science. Some of them will go and find out more, and that can only lead to good things. Someone on Twitter said their toddler was saying “hello Gregor!” along with Tim. Though the video isn’t aimed at kids (it’s aimed at kids, adults, or just anyone who enjoys it), I can’t think of anything better than a small voice chatting to Gregor Mendel.
Storm was an easy sell because it’s angry and ranty and sweary and has a fun villain. Encode is pure good news, and that’s always extremely difficult to get right without sounding cheesy or like propaganda. As I understand it, the Encode data really may mean unlocking knowledge and eventually cures for certain diseases, but that’s not what the results released last week are. The results are about saying “hey, here’s this huge body of data that anyone can access and help advance humanity”. If that idea isn’t best represented as a giant robot with a lab in its belly and a sexy voiceover by Tim Minchin, I don’t know what is. Hope you enjoy it!
Ooh! Almost forgot: “Both naughty and excellent” was Tim’s line. He also threw in “hi big boy” to the robot but we decided, funny though it is, it might not quite be appropriate. :D
The record-breaking production of Matilda The Musical, which has been playing to packed and excited houses at London’s Cambridge Theatre, is now booking through until the 22nd December 2013!
Tomorrow, 13th September 2012, is Roald Dahl Day – on what would have been the great storyteller’s birthday. To mark the occasion 400,000 tickets will go on sale at 11am.
You can snap up these tickets, from 11am tomorrow, by phoning the Cambridge Theatre Box Office: 0844 412 4652 or the RSC Ticket Hotline: 0844 800 1110 or to book online visit: www.matildathemusical.com.
£5 day seats are available as part of the RSC’s 16-25 ticket scheme and over 100 seats are available at £25 or less for every performance.
Of course you’ll know by now that Tim wrote the music and lyrics, but if you want to catch up with the story so far of Matilda The Musical, look at photos, videos, and some of the amazing reviews and awards the production has won so far, then check out the Matilda page.
Guinness World Records, accepted as the global authority on record-breaking achievement, today announced the theatre additions to 57th edition of the world’s best-selling copyright book, Guinness World Records 2013.
Back in April, having received the maximum possible ten nominations, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda The Musical, skipped away with SEVEN 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards! This amazing achievement is a record haul for a single show and secured the Guinness World Record for Most Laurence Olivier award wins. This sweeps the title from the 1980 production of Nicholas Nickleby, also a Royal Shakespeare Company production, which had held the record, with six Olivier awards, for more than 20 years.
The seven Oliviers won by Matilda The Musical included Best New Musical with Matthew Warchus winning Best Director. Rob Howells claimed Best Set Design, Simon Baker Best Sound Design and Peter Darling Best Theatre Choreographer. Members of the cast triumphed too with Best Actor in a Musical for Bertie Carvel, as Miss Trunchbull, and Best Actress in a Musical was shared by the four Matildas: Cleo Demetriou, Kerry Ingram, Sophia Kiely and Eleanor Worthington-Cox, who at ten years of age, is the youngest ever winner of an Olivier Award
The inclusion of Matilda The Musical in the 2013 edition coincides with Roald Dahl Day on 13th September 2012.
Guinness World Records 2013 book - Matilda The Musical - Most Laurence Olivier award wins
Tim is to make his Sydney Theatre Company (STC) debut performing, with Toby Schmitz, in Tom Stoppard’s absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, directed by Simon Phillips.
Tim and Toby have a history together, having met way back in the olden days when Tim was 17 and Toby, 15. In 1996, Tim and Toby played the minor characters of The Player and Hamlet, respectively, in a University of Western Australia (UWA) production of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead, directed by Gen Hegney and Luke Cowling, at the Dolphin Theatre, Perth. They (along with Travis Cotton) also co-wrote a musical called This Blasted Earth, which they put on in 2004.
6th August to 7th September 2013 they’ll be reunited (’cause it feels so good) in the title roles for the 2013 Sydney Theatre season. Visit the Sydney Theatre Company website for further information and tickets* although at the moment tickets are only available to purchase as part of a 2013 Season Ticket package.
Tim says:“I adore Stoppard, I adore this play, and Toby and I love working together. So when Luke (Cowling – who co-directed the UWA version) suggested that we should try to play the title roles opposite each other, I got very excited. Eventually the idea ended up with the STC who in turn suggested the incredible Simon Phillips as director. I’ve known for some time that it was going to happen, but now it’s actually been officially announced, I can properly start shitting myself. With fear, as well as excitement.”
* Note: The STC website seems to be having some problems so if you can’t access the information, please give it a few minutes and then try again.
UPDATE: The first single tickets for the STC 2013 season go on sale Monday 11th Feb 2013..
We previously announced that Matilda The Musical will be hitting Broadway at the Shubert Theater, with previews from the 4th of March 2013, and now we’re pleased to be able to tell you when you can get your hands on the tickets!
Tickets for this marvellous musical go on general sale on the 1st October 2012, for performances up to and including the 15th December 2013, from telecharge.com!
If you’re itching to get your hands on them sooner than that though, Telecharge are offering a presale now to AmEx cardmembers until the 20th September and there’ll be a second presale for Google Offers subscribers running from the 21st to 30th September.
And if you need a reason other than Tim writing the music and lyrics, be sure to check out the Matilda page and read all the rave reviews the West End production’s received.
You favourite tousle-maned pianist Tim will finally be making his debut on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV1 at 9:55pm!
On Saturday, 8th September, Tim will be joining his fellow Jesus Christ Superstar cast members Mel C and Ben Forster in performing a song from the show, whilst Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber will be sitting down on the sofa with Wossy and discussing the arena tour.
The other guests that Tim will have the pleasure of cosying up to the green room with are pop star Cheryl Cole and Facejacker’s Kayvan Novak.
Be sure to tune in so that you can catch the first public appearance of Tim’s Judas!
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