The Olivier Awards are happening on Sunday April 9th at the Royal Albert Hall. It’ll be hosted by the wonderful Jason Manford, and will be broadcast on ITV and live-streamed on Facebook at 8pm on Tuesday 11th April.
The Old Vic production of our new musical, Groundhog Day, is nominated for 8 awards. Also, I am going to be performing a song from the show, backed by the awesome BBC Concert Orchestra and some of the cast of the Old Vic production. Can’t. Bloody. Wait.
There are lots of other performances. Details here.
In other Groundhoggy news… we are 2 weeks into previews at the August Wilson Theatre in New York and audiences are already growing. Here is the Groundhog Day Broadway site if you want tickets. We have our “Opening Night” on April 17th. Scary shit.
What’s more, the Broadway cast has just spent much of last week in the studio recording the show. You can preorder it here. It is – if nothing else – like nothing else you’ve heard.
Having been nominated in all twelve Music Theatre categories, last night Matilda The Musical in Australia won EIGHT Green Room Awards including Outstanding Music Theatre Production!
The Green Room Awards are Melbourne’s premier peer-presented, performing arts industry awards, recognising excellence across the Melbourne theatre industry.
The rest of the wins, across many other categories, are as follows:
Lighting Design – Hugh Vanstone Set Design – Rob Howell Costume Design – Rob Howell Sound Design – Simon Baker Music Direction/Supervision – Stephen Amos The Betty Pounder Award for Excellence in Choreography – Peter Darling Direction – Matthew Warchus
He will be joining Abigail Spencer and Ben Platt. Plus, there will be music from Take That.
US: CBS 12:37am/11:37pm C
If you miss it or prefer to watch it later, the full episode will appear online here and here.
UK:
It can be viewed in the UK a day later, on demand, on Sky (S2, ep 85) and therefore also on NOW TV.
Australia:
The programme airs at 11:35pm on Tuesday 21st March, on Channel ELEVEN and catchup should appear on Tenplay.
UPDATE: Video clips! Unfortunately they’re currently geo-blocked in Australia but they will be cleared now that the show has aired on your shores. So, it’s worth checking back later if you are unable to view them right now. UPDATE TWO: The first one is now available for Australians via Sunrise here.
The CD is available for pre-order from Broadway Records. Currently on sale at $12.99. They ship internationally for $10. (* Now available to pre-order from Amazon internationally too).
Or you can pre-order a digital copy from the various international iTunes stores.
It’s also available digitally from Amazon internationally, for example US Amazon and UK Amazon. Otherwise simply search your Amazon store.
Digital Release Date: April 21st, 2017
Physical Release Date: May 5th, 2017
UPDATE: Two songs are already available to listen to on Spotify and downloadable on iTunes: If I Had My Time Again and Seeing You. You can listen to both on Vevo here.
* The CD is now available for pre-order from Amazon internationally – release date 12th May, 2017.
The full album may not be up on Spotify and the like for some time and we’re still waiting to hear more about the availability of the CD internationally but we’ll further update this blog and/or announce as and when more information comes in.
They’ve been rehearsing over and over to prepare. Tonight, Groundhog Day Broadway performs for their New York audience for the first time!
To celebrate, they’ve announced that the Groundhog Day Musicalcast album will be available to pre-order from this Friday, March 17th, 2017, on iTunes and Amazon.
The album will be released digitally on April 14th and in stores May 5th. The recording is produced by Tim, Chris Nightingale and Michael Croiter.
Details about the general rush ticket policy and digital lottery are also available here in Playbill.
Tickets are available from www.groundhogdaymusical.com where you’ll also find more information about the show and full cast details etc, or you can take a look at an earlier blog here.
Come Home (Cardinal Pell) has been nominated for the 2017 APRA Song of the Year! This is the largest peer-voted music award in Australia.
Now in their 35th year, the APRA Music Awards acknowledge and celebrate artistic excellence in contemporary music, honouring songwriters and publishers that have achieved outstanding success in their fields.
Along with Tim and Come Home (Cardinal Pell) in the celebrated Song of the Year category, APRA members have voted for Amy Shark and M-Phazes for Adore, Julia Jacklin for Pool Party, D.D Dumbo for Satan and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for Skeleton Key.
Here’s Tim talking about the song upon hearing about the nomination:
The full list of awards and nominees can be found here and all of the Song of the Year nominee videos are here.
The 2017 APRA Music Awards will be held at the new International Convention Centre Grand Ballroom in Sydney, on Monday, 3rd April. (more…)
Groundhog Day received EIGHT Olivier Award nominations today, including Best New Musical!
The rest of the nominations were in the following categories:
Best Actor in a Musical – Andy Karl Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical – Andrew Langtree Best Theatre Choreographer – Peter Darling and Ellen Kane Best Lighting Design – Hugh Vanstone Best Costume Design – Rob Howell Best Set Design – Rob Howell Best Director – Matthew Warchus
The full list of awards and nominees can be found on the Olivier Awards website here.
The Olivier Awards are now in their 41st year and are the UK’s most prestigious theatre awards, recognising excellence in professional theatre in London.
The winners will be announced at a star-studded ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 9th April.
Congratulations to all the cast, crew and creatives!
Groundhog Day enjoyed a critically acclaimed limited run at The Old Vic and begins Broadway performances at the August Wilson Theatre, NYC, on March 16th, with opening night set for Monday, April 17th.
Composer and lyricist of musicals Groundhog Day and Matilda, Tim is also a pianist, singer, comedian, actor, and – until 2 days ago – a director.
Here’s a message from him:
Hi everyone.
I’ve recently been working in 3 different continents, missing my kids a lot, sleeping too little and not playing piano enough.
And then a couple of days ago, the animated film to which I’ve dedicated the last 4 years of my life was shut down by the new studio execs.
The only way I know how to deal with my impotent fury and sadness is to subject members of the public to the spectacle of me getting drunk and playing ballads.
I suspect I won’t be very funny, I won’t be doing any stand-up, and I might act a bit bitter and spoilt. On the upside, the tickets are as cheap as I could make them, and I might be tempted to buy a round.
Come and drink with me, my friends, and we’ll see what happens.
Love, Tim
Tim Minchin – Getting Drunk and Playing Ballads Feinstein’s/54 Below – 254 W 54TH ST. CELLAR, NYC 10019 Monday 6th March, 2017, at 9:30pm
The Broadway company is spending this weekend in the studio to start recording the new Groundhog Day album for release this spring. Whoop!
The album will be produced by Tim, Chris Nightingale and Michael Croiter.
Groundhog Day begins performances at the August Wilson Theatre, NYC, on March 16th, with opening night set for Monday, April 17th.
Tickets are available from www.groundhogdaymusical.com where you’ll also find more information about the show and full cast details etc, or you can take a look at an earlier blog here.
Masterworks Broadway and Broadway Records are partnering to release the Original Broadway Cast Album.
The critically-acclaimed Australian Production of Matilda The Musical will premiere at The Civic in Auckland this August for a strictly limited season: Arriving 18th August, 2017 and running until the 22nd October, 2017.
Catherine Mallyon, RSC Executive Director, said: “We are thrilled to bring our production of Matilda The Musical to New Zealand and we hope audiences here will take Matilda to their hearts, as they have done in Stratford-upon-Avon, London, the United States of America, Canada and Australia.”
The Australian Production of Matilda The Musical is the most awarded musical in Australian theatrical history having scooped a record-breaking 13 Helpmann Awards, winning every possible musical category AND Matilda has just been nominated in all possible categories of Melbourne’s “peer recognised” 2017 Green Room Awards, including Best Musical Theatre Production.
Matilda The Musical was also recognised by Ticketmaster as Best-Selling Musical in the theatrical category and Most Popular Event overall, across all of Ticketmaster’s events over the last 12 months – in the inaugural Ticketmaster TM LEGENDS Awards.
(Updated 6th April to add dates and ticketing details.)
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