The shortlist of nominations for the 2013 Whatsonstage.com Awards were announced yesterday, covering the best UK theatre experiences in 2012.
These UK theatre industry awards are the only major theatre awards which are nominated by and voted for entirely by theatregoers and the ticket-buying public. Voting is open until January 31st 2013. You can see the full list of categories and nominees and cast your votes here!
Jesus Christ Superstar is up for FIVE awards with Tim nominated for his phenomenal performance as Judas:
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical – Tim Minchin, Jesus Christ Superstar
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical – Melanie C, Jesus Christ Superstar
Best Musical Revival – Jesus Christ Superstar
Best Lighting Designer – Patrick Woodroffe, Jesus Christ Superstar
Theatre Event of the Year – Jesus Christ Superstar’s arena tour
Following on from the show’s tremendous success at last year’s awards, this year Matilda The Musical is up for:
Best West End Show – Matilda the Musical, RSC at the Cambridge Theatre
The winners will be revealed at the Awards Ceremony and Concert on the 17th February 2013 at the West End’s Palace Theatre.
Tim’s had his photo taken again! This time it’s an intimate and pensive shot for Tough Crowd, an exhibition of photographs by Dave Brown (‘Bollo’ the Gorilla from The Mighty Boosh) in partnership with Afrikids.
They are portraits of many fine and well-loved comedians on the circuit, including: Tim, Tony Law, Tim Key, Ross Noble, Bill Bailey, Richard Ayoade, Julia Davis, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Nick Helme, Sara Pascoe, Davis O’Doherty, Chris Addison and many many more. Brown asked Tim and all his subjects to recall their worst moments on stage in order to capture some of the ‘dark side’ to stand up and achieve a moody and melancholy air to the collection.
The exhibition is at The Strand Gallery until 15th December 2012.
Limited edition prints are being sold here with all profits going to AfriKids, which is a child rights organisation working to improve life for Ghana’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
They are available in A3 size for £50 and A2 for £75. So you can browse the whole impressive collection via the link above or go straight to A3 Tim or A2 Tim for that Christmas gift that makes you popular forever or that treat to yourself just ’cause, in the knowledge that you are helping out a terrific charity which does amazing work.
Afrikids work ranges from traditional children’s projects including foster homes, schools and street child centres as well as tackling complex cultural issues such as child trafficking and child labour. You can donate or find out more about their work here.
Tim will be helping Tom and Alex celebrate the forthcoming apocalypse on their End of the World special, tomorrow morning, 7th December 2012, on triple j by providing the songs for the last ever Like A Version!
He’ll be live in the studio to perform one of his own tunes and his own interpretation of someone else’s. The show starts at 6am, but if that’s too early for you, the ATT* will be 7am-8:30am.
There’s no word as to what Tim will be playing, so you’ll have to tune in to find out which song he’ll be murdering lovingly re-imagining.
*Approximate Timmy Time
If you missed out on tickets to see Tim pretending to be Judas in Autumn, then fear not. Due to popular demand, a second UK tour of Jesus Christ Superstar has been scheduled for March 2013!
The main cast will remain the same, with Tim reprising his role as Judas, while Melanie C will play Mary Magdalene, Ben Forster will play Jesus and Chris Moyles will play King Herod.
You’ll be able to see Tim’s show-stealing performances at the following venues on the following dates:
Nottingham Capital FM Arena
10th March 2013
London O2 Arena
13th March 2013
Liverpool Echo Arena
15th March 2013
Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
17th March 2013
Manchester Arena
24th March 2013
Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
26th March 2013
Birmingham NIA
28th March 2013
Tickets will go on sale on Friday 7th December at 9am from jesuschristsuperstar.com.
Tim will be on Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1 this afternoon. The show airs between 1pm and 4pm but the ATT* is 2:40pm.
They’ll be playing the lovely new studio version of ‘White Wine In The Sun’, available on iTunes and now Amazon too, the December proceeds for which all go to the National Autistic Society, as Tim announced here.
If you can’t listen live you’ll be able to catch it on the BBC iPlayer later.
*Approximate Timmy Time
As some of you might have already spotted on Twitter, the long clamoured for official Matilda The Musical Songbook is now available for pre-order from The RSC here and Musicroom here! You can see the song list and preview some of the book’s pages via those links.
It is released on Monday 10th December 2012.
This songbook presents all Tim’s songs from the show, arranged for voice and piano with chord symbols. There’s also an eight-page colour photo section and Tim’s written an exclusive foreword/tip sheet explaining a little about his writing for Matilda and giving hints as to how everyone can enjoy the book to the max!
If you’re in the UK, you can watch some of the cast perform one of the show-stopping favourites on the 100th Royal Variety Performance tonight, Monday 3rd December, at 7:30pm on ITV.
Tim’s Judas is coming to Canada!
Here’s the chance for Canadians to see a shod, dreadlocked Tim betray Jesus, as he performs in screenings of the UK arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar!
The screenings will take place across a limited number of cinemas tomorrow, 2nd December and Wednesday, 5th December. You can find your nearest one at CinePlex.com.
If you’re still umming and ahhing over whether you should see the spectacle for yourself, you should head over to this post, watch the clips from the show and then imagine them on a big screen! If that doesn’t convince you, then nothing will.
It’s been six years since I wrote my little tribute to Christmas, and I’ve finally recorded a studio version. Huzzah!
You can get it here. I’m sorry it’s only on iTunes at the moment – we finished mixing it only hours ago and just wanted to get it up somewhere as soon as possible.
As in previous years, all proceeds from the sale of this song during the month of December will go to the National Autistic Society.
Hope you like it!
tx
Update: Now available on Amazon (UK) and Amazon (US) too, for “non-apple people”.
The proceeds from this Wednesday’s show are going to Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). It is an awesome organisation. If you wanna know more, click here.
The show has for some time been sold out, but you now have a chance to overcome such dreary limitations. MSF has a handful of tickets to give away… in exchange for a little bit of labour!
All you have to do to win entry for two people is to send an email to [email protected] with the following statement: “I promise to stand in the foyer of the Coronet holding a bucket and shouting “donations!” for up to 45 minutes at the end of the gig”.
Two winners will be picked at at random at 9am tomorrow morning. Easy huh?
Love yez.
tx
UPDATE: We now have two lucky winners. They will be contacted about their tickets (and buckets) shortly.
Shell
You might remember that, this autumn, Tim had a little* role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s UK touring arena production of Jesus Christ Superstar as Judas Iscariot.
If you missed the tour or simply want to relive the experience then you’ll like this – the DVD of the show is out today! Filmed over two nights at Birmingham’s NIA, this modern reworking of the rock opera sees the last days of Jesus set amongst the London riots.
You can pick up the DVD (or Blu-Ray, if you like seeing every bead of sweat on Tim’s face) from all good retailers, both online and offline.
If you’re outside the UK, there are plans afoot to release it internationally early next year.
Anyway, enough of the talking, here are some clips so you can see what you’ll be getting!
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The producers of the Broadway production of Matilda the Musical have announced the four, plucky actresses who will be taking on the titular role and the actor who’ll be playing the part of the tyrannical Miss Trunchbull!
You lucky people get to see Bertie Carvel making his Broadway debut, reprising the role of the fearsome headmistress of Crunchem Hall, for which he picked up the Best Actor in a Musical award at the Oliviers last year!
In no particular order (not even alphabetical), the four girls who will alternate playing the feisty heroine, Matilda, are Oona Laurence, Milly Shapiro, Bailey Ryon and Sophia Gennua!
All four girls are seasoned performers, having taken on a large number of roles between them, however this role will see them all making their Broadway debuts!
The rest of the cast will be announced at a later date.
The show opens at the Shubert Theater on the 11th April 2013, with previews from the 4th March 2013, and tickets are available to buy now from this link.
The Broadway Matildas - Oona Laurence, Milly Shapiro, Sophia Gennusa, and Bailey Ryon
Tim’s headlining the Stand Up For Shelter comedy night at the Hammersmith Apollo, London on the 27th February 2013.
There’s a fabulous line up joining him including Alistair McGowan, Stewart Francis, Sara Pascoe and musical performers The Cuban Brothers plus more to be announced.
Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday 16th November, at 9am and will be available here.
UPDATE Fri 16/11 09:22: Some are reporting that the above link via the Shelter website does not work on some mobile phones so try the Hammersmith Apollo site here if that is an issue.
They are priced at £30 with a limited number of VIP tickets at £50. There’s a competition to win two VIP tickets via the same link.
Tim says: “I’m delighted to be part of this show for Shelter, a brilliant charity which steps in really quickly to help struggling families with no home. The line up is great and different and hilarious and it’s going to be a fantastic night of comedy and awesome fun. Come! Bring friends.”
Shelter is a UK charity that works hard with people affected by homelessness and bad housing conditions. They give advice, information and advocacy and campaign for lasting political change in an effort to end the housing crisis for good. They have a Christmas Emergency appeal running at the moment to try to help the thousands of children spending Christmas without a home or decent living conditions. More information can be found here.
This may or may not be Tim's outfit on Friday...
Tim has already performed on the live Weekend Wogan special for Children in Need this year, but the fuzzy Australian just loves a certain bandaged bear so much that he’ll also be appearing on Children in Need on Friday, 16th November!
Your favourite unshod comedian/actor/musician/rockstar/fool (delete as appropriate) will be rocking his “dragged through a hedge backwards” look next to guitarist Dan Clews for a rendition of White Wine In The Sun at some point during the six-hour marathon show! We anticipate that he’ll be appearing after midnight (hope you’ve got plenty of caffeine handy) but as it’s a live event, it’s possible that things might change. The programme kicks off at 7:30pm.
Children in Need is the BBC’s UK corporate charity and they provide grants to projects in the UK that focus on children and young people who are disadvantaged. They support small and large organisations which empower children and extend their life choices. You can read more about the work they do here.
Tim will be on Geoff Lloyd’s Hometime Show on Absolute Radio today (5pm-8pm). The *Approximate Timmy Time (ATT) is 6pm.
Then next week on Wednesday 21st November he’ll be on the Xfm Breakfast Show with Danny Wallace (6am-10am). The ATT for that is 8.30am.
He’ll be chatting about his role as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar and the DVD and Blu-ray release of the show which is coming out on the 19th November 2012.
Tim, fresh and toned from his recent roles in Californication and Jesus Christ Superstar, is returning to the comedy stage, for your delight, with his band: the delicious Pete, Brad and Tristan. This quartet of outstanding natural beauty and musical talent will be performing Tim’s lyrical, satirical and beautiful songs at The Coronet, London, on Wednesday 28th November 2012, in preparation for their appearance at Homebake Festival, Sydney, Oz.
Tim says: “We will be playing the tunes you saw us play at UK Festivals during the summer, unless you didn’t go to any, in which case we will be playing the tunes you missed. (To be clear: this is old material… but it’s fucking great fun. Having said that, we may well play a couple of rarely-performed ‘serious’ tunes later in the night.)
Come.”
Tickets are on sale now (and have been for a little while. A perk of being on Tim’s mailing list is that you get occasional but invaluable tip-offs for such things).
Standing Dancing! – £16.50
Seated – £18.00
Prices are inclusive of fees and for the first time sold via this very website here. Hooray!
Doors open at 7pm with the show starting at 8pm.
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