Photo by Joan Marcus
This month, Tim will receive the Qantas Orry-Kelly Award at this year’s Australians in Film Awards!
The award celebrates an Australian who has contributed to Australia’s national identity and created opportunities and inspiration for other Australians internationally.
Tim: “It is a huge thrill to be acknowledged by Australians in Film. When my family and I moved to LA from London, the organization played a big role in helping us connect to the brilliant community of Aussies living and working here. In a town as brutal as Hollywood, these connections have been vital to our survival. To now be honored by AiF for my various (and often not particularly conventional) efforts is just incredibly lovely.” broadwayworld.com
The sixth annual Australians in Film Awards will be held on Wednesday, 18th October at Neuehouse Hollywood, hosted by actor Patrick Brammall.
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The Australian edition of When I Grow Up, the new magical picture book inspired by Tim’s hit song from the acclaimed and multi-award-winning Matilda the Musical is released tomorrow – 1st October 2017! There’s a bonus download of Tim performing the song included.
The book is illustrated by Steve Antony, an internationally published, award-winning author and illustrator. It imagines life from a child’s viewpoint, with all the humour and poignancy of the song.
Available from all good booksellers, including:
Booktopia
Angus & Robertson
Dymocks
Readings
Look out for book signing events – to be announced soon.
The UK edition publication details have already been announced here. There will be another announcement soon to reveal the cover of the US edition which Scholastic US will be publishing in 2018.
Heads-up London! Tim’s hairy toes touch down in the UK briefly next month and accordingly he’s been cajoled into putting on a one-off show at the Arts Theatre on Tuesday 3rd October. (He loves performing in London, so the cajoling was not exactly arduous).
This is a rare chance to see Tim perform at such an intimate UK venue. If you’ve missed his lyrical gymnastics, mellifluous Aussie tones, baby blues, pleasingly tousled mane and that mischievous grin… he’ll spend 70 splendid minutes deftly bashing a baby-grand for your delectation.
Tim Minchin for one night only
Tuesday 3rd October at 7.30pm
The Arts Theatre, Great Newport Street, LONDON
Tickets are on sale right here right now! £20 each
UPDATE(10:12am): From the Arts Theatre: “There are still tickets left, our website is having trouble keeping up with Tim’s greatness. We’re working on it. Please keep trying or call the Box Office – 02078368463”.
Sorry – this gig has now SOLD OUT
There will be an exclusive signing event held for When I Grow Up on Saturday 7th October 10:30am at Leicester Square Theatre, London.
Tim will perform a few songs including When I Grow Up, his hit song from multi-award-winning Matilda the Musical, which inspired this new magical picture book.
The book is illustrated by Steve Antony, an internationally published, award-winning author and artist. Steve will be drawing live at the event.
The performances will be followed by a book signing.
Tickets and further information are available here. (Now SOLD OUT)
UPDATE (21/09/17): Due to demand, this event has been extended to include Tim and Steve signing books at Waterstones Piccadilly on Saturday 7th October too – entrance by ticket only.
Tickets on sale Friday 22nd at 6pm here.
When I Grow Up will be published on the 5th October in the UK and is already available to pre-order.
Last Tuesday, Bill Murray, who made the iconic role of TV weatherman Phil Connors famous in the 1993 film, went to see Groundhog Day on Broadway and he LOVED IT! Then, the next night, he went again…
Pictured on the right with the two fabulous Broadway leads: Barrett Doss (Rita) and Andy Karl (Phil).
Sopan Deb, culture writer for the New York Times, covered the event in hilarious detail, in threaded tweets, before writing it up:
Day one: Bill Murray Relives a Role, Seeing Broadway’s ‘Groundhog Day’ – New York Times
The following night, he was back to see the show again:
Day two: Bill Murray Attends ‘Groundhog Day’ Again, and It Feels Like … Well, You Know – New York Times
Murray went on to enthuse about Groundhog Day and his experiences seeing the show on The Leonard Lopate Show – WNYC. Listen to the lovely interview here:
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Groundhog Day has announced that it will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday September 17th, 2017.
An 18-month US tour is scheduled to begin next year and details of a much clamoured for London return will be announced in the coming months.
The show’s producers said: “It has been a joy to share Groundhog Day over and over again with Broadway audiences. We could not have asked for a more magnificent, devoted company to bring Danny Rubin’s heartfelt words, Tim Minchin’s dynamic score, and Matthew Warchus’ ingenious direction to the August Wilson Theatre stage every night. This Punxsutawney family has been through a lot together and as Groundhog Day heads into its final month of performances in New York, we are so proud to be part of a Golden Age of musicals on Broadway.”
Groundhog Day tickets can be purchased here. Grab them while you can!
Further information about the show can be found on the Groundhog Day The Musical Page, including videos, tickets, the Original Cast Recording and you can DOWNLOAD the Lyric Book.
UPDATE: (9th Jan 2018) Very sadly, Tim announced on Twitter that the US Tour will not take place. The return to London is yet to be announced.
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When I Grow Up, the new magical picture book inspired by Tim’s hit song from the acclaimed and multi-award-winning Matilda the Musical, will be published on the 5th October in the UK.
The book is illustrated by Steve Antony, an internationally published, award-winning author and illustrator. It imagines life from a child’s viewpoint, with all the humour and poignancy of the song.
The book is available from the following UK booksellers and more:
Amazon
Waterstones
Book Depository
and in digital format from iTunes.
For those in Australia and the US: Scholastic Australia will be publishing simultaneously in October 2017 and Scholastic US will be publishing in summer 2018, although with different covers. We’ll reveal those covers as soon as we have them.
UPDATE: Details about the Australian edition and where to buy here.
#AuthorsForGrenfell are raising money for the Red Cross fund for the Grenfell Tower victims.
There’s a rare limited edition hardback of the graphic novel version of Tim’s much-loved beat-poem ‘Storm’ up for auction. Tim will sign and personalise the book for the winner.
Co-creators of the book Tracy King and DC Turner will also include some hand-drawn, unique ‘Storm’ artwork.
The auction ends 8pm (BST) Tuesday 27th June, 2017.
If you’d like to bid click here for full details. You simply comment with your bid (in £) at the bottom of the auction page.
If you’re not able to make a bid yourself, you can help by spreading the word or take a look at the many other items available in the #AuthorsForGrenfell auction.
Thank you!
An exclusive event for those in Australia and New Zealand!
Tune in tomorrow, Wednesday 21st June, 2017, from 7.30PM AEST / 9.30PM NZST as Tim goes #OneOnOne with Sir Paul McCartney on Facebook Live!
As well as revealing all the details of Paul’s upcoming Australian and New Zealand Tour, Paul will be answering some questions from fans, asked on your behalf by Tim:
For your chance to have a question answered by Paul live tomorrow night, please submit your question here.
The video will remain on Paul McCartney’s Facebook Page after the stream ends, viewable only by Australian and New Zealand audiences.
UPDATE (21/06/17): Full details of Paul McCartney’s Australia/New Zealand #OneOnOne Tour here.
Next week, Tim’ll be joining Eddie Izzard and Kristen Schaal on the panel of @midnight on Comedy Central! This will be his third appearance on the internet-themed improv comedy panel show, hosted by Chris Hardwick.
The show will air on Comedy Central on Tuesday 20th June, 11:30/10:30c. Check your local schedules for further details. Episodes can be found for catch-up on the Comedy Central @midnight website after they air.
Tim will be recording this episode on Monday 19th June, 8:30pm, at Hollywood Center Studios, so if you’re in or near LA, you might like to request tickets here.
Having received SEVEN nominations including Best Musical, the cast of Groundhog Day Broadway will perform at The Tony Awards tomorrow evening!
The glittering ceremony will air on the CBS Television Network at 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT, on Sunday 11th June, live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Kevin Spacey is hosting.
Tune-in at 8/7c on CBS
or
via the Tony Award’s official live stream to watch!
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Here are a few production photos, by Joan Marcus, to whet your appetite:
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Tim joins Jesse David Fox on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes to talk about Groundhog Day and about the song ‘Stuck’ in particular. He even plays the keyboard. Yippee!
Listen to, or download, the podcast here, or you’ll find it on iTunes here soon.
If you enjoyed the musical nerdery of Tim’s Facebook Live Q&A and you like to analyse musical comedy this is for you!
You can check out the lyrics to ‘Stuck’ by viewing or downloading the Groundhog Day Lyric Book here. (On the right hand side of the page).
Tickets to see the show, at the August Wilson Theatre, NY, are on sale from Ticketmaster.com or by calling (800) 745-3000. Additional information can be found at groundhogdaymusical.com. Details of the Groundhog Day (Original Broadway Cast Recording) album can be found here.
Tim will play two late night shows next week:
Tim Minchin
Feinstein’s/54 Below – 254 W 54TH ST. CELLAR, NYC 10019
Wednesday June 7th at 9:30PM and Saturday June 10th at 11:30PM
Tickets will be available here
There will be a presale to Club 54 Members on Friday June 2nd at 12pm EST
Tickets will go on general sale Saturday June 3rd at 12pm EST
Tim: “I’m very much looking forward to being back in the warm embrace of Feinstein’s/54 Below, playing songs and drinking wine and talking about whatever pops into my head.”
This is a very intimate venue so tickets are likely to sell out extremely quickly.
This Tuesday, 30th May at 12:30 EDT, Tim’ll be doing a Groundhog Day The Musical themed Facebook Live Q&A!
Tune in to Groundhog Day Musical’s Broadway Facebook Page to watch with your questions ready to put to him. Whether you’ve seen the show or not – ask him anything Groundhoggy!
There will be music and dancing and answers… There may be music, dancing is sadly unlikely (unless someone asks very nicely) but there will be lots of lovely answers.
Some Tim-Zones:
12:30 EDT – New York
09:30 PDT – Los Angeles
17:30 BST – London
02:30 AEST – Melbourne (next day – sorry Australians!)
There are various Time Zone Converters available if you’d like to check when to watch live in your part of the world.
If you miss it live, fear not, you’ll be able to catch-up here later.
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