Tim has also offered himself up for an eBay auction! You have less than five hours left to bid for two tickets, in some of the best seats in the house, to see the record breaking, multi-award winning Matilda The Musicaland Tim will buy you drinks in the interval and entertain you with convivial chat and those sparkling blue eyes. Find out the details and bid for Tim here.
You can sponsor Mark on his epic challenge here and the link at the top of the page takes you to more information and the live streaming of the event and you’ll find more auctions* here.
You can also donate £5 by texting ‘Mark’ to 70005.
* Psst! At the moment gossip in a pub with Caitlin Moran is out bidding drinks with Tim at Matilda! I won’t tell him if you don’t…
UPDATE: The auction ended with a winning bid of £2,650.00. Congratulations to the winner and have a fabulous night!
Your pleas and pleases have been answered: Tim’s added a second solo ‘one-off’ late night show at 54 Below, 254 W 54th St, Cellar – New York, on Friday 1st March 2013 at 11pm EST.
Tickets are available online here.
Doors open at 10pm.
Warning: there may be some adult language and content.
The first date with Tim in this intimate venue sold out in just over an hour, hence this additional date, so move fast to grab these.
Tim is to play a one-off late night show at 54 Below, 254 W 54th St, Cellar – New York, on Saturday 2nd March 2013 at 11pm EST.
Tickets are available online here.
Doors open at 10pm.
Warning: there may be some adult language and content.
This is a rare opportunity to see Tim perform solo in such an intimate venue. Tickets are likely to sell out extremely quickly.
Still here?! If you fancy rocking up to a late night gig with Tim’s heady mix of clever, satirical and often beautiful songs, accompanied by virtuoso piano teasing and thrashing you need to get a wiggle on and pick up your tickets fast.
Following a sell-out tour in the UK, last autumn, the arena production of Jesus Christ Superstar is now heading to Australia!
Tim will be reprising his award-winning performance as Judas Iscariot for the tour, while Melanie C and Ben Forster will also be returning in their roles from the UK production as Mary Magdalene and Jesus.
The tour will also see the host of Deal or No Deal, Andrew O’Keefe, playing King Herod and Jon Stevens, who appeared as Judas Iscariot in the 1992 Australian arena tour of the show, taking on the role of Pontius Pilate.
The tour will be calling at the following places:
31st May 2013
Perth Arena
4th June 2013
Adelaide Entertainment Centre
7th June 2013
Sydney Entertainment Centre
8th June 2013 (matinee and evening shows)
Sydney Entertainment Centre
11th June 2013
Brisbane Entertainment Centre
14th June 2013
Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena
15th June 2013 (matinee and evening shows)
Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena
Tickets will go on general sale on the 8th March 2013, however, there will be a presale from the 27th February 2013 for folks who are Frontier Members. The full list of ticket links can be found on jesuschristsuperstar.com
Lovely Americans! In case you’d forgotten about our previous announcement, we thought we ought to remind you that the highlights from Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra Live at the Royal Albert Hall will be broadcast on Showtime tomorrow night, 19th February 2013, at 11pm ET/PT!
You’ll also be able to catch it On Demand afterwards in case you miss it, or you could simply watch one of these repeats:
Tonight the winners of the 2013 Whatsonstage.com Awards were revealed, at the Awards Ceremony and Concert, at the West End’s Palace Theatre. This year 60,000 theatregoers and members of the ticket-buying public voted.
Jesus Christ Superstar received five award nominations as we announced here. Tonight Tim won Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, for playing his dream role of Judas Iscariot and Melanie C picked up Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role as Mary Magdalene.
Tim and Melanie C also performed numbers from Jesus Christ Superstar live to a thrilled audience.
When the tour was first announced there were calls from fans for Scottish and Yorkshire shows. Well it seems that The Really Useful Group have listened and added two extra dates in October, in brand new, shiny venues!
The tour will now be opening in Glasgow at The Hydro on 1st October 2013 and adding an extra calling point in at Leeds Arena on the 4th October 2012.
Tickets for both of these extra-sparkly shows will go on sale tomorrow at 9am from jesuschristsuperstar.com.
There are still a few tickets left to see Tim headlining the Stand Up For Shelter comedy night at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, on the 27th February 2013.
Tim has a 45 minute set of lyrically and satirically sublime songs planned for your entertainment. Joining him on the fabulous line up, hosted by Christian O’Connell, are: Jimmy Carr, Alistair McGowan, Stewart Francis, Sara Pascoe and The Cuban Brothers.
Tickets are available here with all proceeds from the night going to Shelter and their vital work.
Tim:“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.”
We announced back in September, here, that 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. At the time tickets for the show, which runs from 6th August to 7th September 2013, were only available as part of the Season Ticket packages.
This is a reminder that tickets will be on general sale on Monday 11th February 2013 at 9am (Sydney time) from the Sydney Theatre website here or you can phone: 02 9250 1777. Prices range from $50 – $90 and further details are available via their website.
When news of this role first broke, Tim said: “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.”
The box office will be busy that day, with all the shows for the second half of STC’s 2013 season going on sale, and this is likely to be a very hot ticket indeed, so if you’re keen to see Tim play Rosencrantz or Guildenstern or Guildenstern or Rosencrantz, you’ll need to be on your toes.
UPDATE (11th February 2013): The STC website is having real problems this morning. You can follow their updates on the situation on Twitter @SydneyTheatreCo. Apparently “Unprecedented demand”…including “lots of people wanting to get tickets for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” has caused their website to go down and phone lines to be overwhelmed but they’ll tweet when the website is back up and they advise to keep trying the phone lines, because once you get through and into a queue the wait isn’t too bad. Also the Box Office at The Wharf is open, if you can get there to book in person. Good luck everyone!
As many of you now know, due to various almost-impossible-to-control factors, the producers of Jesus Christ Superstar have unfortunately had to postpone the UK touring dates. I know this is going to properly dick with many of your plans, and I’m really sorry, for what it’s worth. It’s a right pain-in-the-perfect-butts for the cast, and was a very difficult decision for Andrew and the folk at RUG.
I really hope you can come to the rescheduled dates in Sept/Oct. It’ll be worth the wait, I reckon.
tx
The announcement and rescheduled tour dates can be found here.
A while ago, Flim Flam Films launched a Kickstarter project to fund their documentary, An Honest Liar: The Amazing Randi Story, which will profile the life of the magician turned skeptic, James “The Amazing” Randi, following his crusades to expose con artists, psychics and faith healers.
Now, you might have read that and thought, “What’s that got to do with Tim?” Well, Tim has been interviewed for the documentary – along with fellow skeptics Penn and Teller, Richard Dawkins, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Adam Savage – and they’ve just released a preview clip of him talking about Randi’s influence on his work.
You can pledge as little or as much as you’d like to help fund the documentary, with exclusive goodies, such as Pigasus coasters, movie posters, card decks and signed, rare Randi posters, available at different price points, along with digital and physical copies of the film.
Last June a windswept and snazzily attired Tim wowed the Eden Sessions crowds, at the Eden Project in Cornwall, with his Large Band: bassist Pete Clements, Brad Webb on drums, guitarist Tristan Cassel-Delavois and a big horne section.
Those of you who attended might remember it as a soggy but he’s worth it spectacular show set amongst the lush gardens of Eden and beautifully lit space age Biomes… in a sustained English summer downpour!
Eden Sessions TV has produced this interview with Tim, intercut with some great live footage from the show:
In April, last year, having received the maximum possible ten nominations, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda The Musical, for which Tim wrote the music and lyrics, skipped away with a Guinness World Record breaking SEVEN 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical!
This year Matilda The Musical is listed for yet another: The BBC Radio 2 Audience Award, which is a chance for theatre audiences to bestow this accolade on their favourite long-running London show.
You can take a look at all the razzmatazz and vote here.
As you vote you’ll automatically be entered into a prize draw to win tickets to the fabulous 2013 ceremony at Royal Opera House on the 28th April!
Have you seen Matilda? Then what are you waiting for? Pop along and vote!
The record breaking, multi-award winning Matilda The Musical, for which (as if you didn’t already know) Tim wrote the music and lyrics, continues to play to packed and excited houses at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End, delighting and captivating people of all ages.
Inspired by Matilda’s love of books and storytelling, the RSC Education Department today launched Write Here Write Now with Matilda, an interactive website designed to encourage children to become avid readers, creative writers and playwrights themselves. There are filmed interviews with Tim and Dennis Kelly, who wrote the script adaptation, and as they bring their storytelling methods to life, with the help of comprehensive teacher notes, they aim to give teachers and children insights into the creative processes involved in writing and staging Matilda.
To celebrate the launch of Write Here Write Now with Matilda, the RSC is setting a National Writing Challenge inviting students aged between eight and thirteen to create an original script or song. Six songs or scenes will be selected, fully rehearsed and then performed live in a special performance by the West End cast at London’s Cambridge Theatre in June 2013, in front of the students and their classmates. Everyone attending will then be able to stay on to see Matilda The Musical that evening!
To get started and learn more about the challenge visit the website here and take a look at the videos and other resources available. Teachers will find that the RSC will also be providing Teacher Professional Development days on how to use Matilda The Musical as a springboard for creative writing with children.
All you lucky Americans are probably already watching Tim’s TV acting debut, as the flamboyant and hilarious rock star Atticus Fetch, in Season 6 of Californication on Showtime. (You can check out the details here if you missed that particularly exciting announcement – they’ve only just aired episode two and Tim’s in ten of them, so plenty of time to catch up).
Showtime clearly want to showcase Tim’s real life rockstar-iness too and so they’ll be screening the spectacular Tim Minchin And The Heritage Orchestra Live At The Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday 19th February at 11:00pm ET/PT.
Here’s the Showtime trailer all about Tim…I mean Atticus… I mean Tim…I mean… Here’s a trailer:
The show has had to be edited quite heavily for the slot BUT plans are already afoot to release the DVD of the full show in the USA and we’ll be sure to let you know as soon as it’s available.
This link will take anyone who fancies it to a blog from way back in November 2011, where Tim, his band members and the producer of the Heritage Orchestra talk about the orchestra show.
Following a sell-out tour in the UK, last autumn, the arena production of Jesus Christ Superstar is now heading to Australia!
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