Groundhog Day won Best New Musical and Andy Karl won the Olivier for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Phil Connors. The ceremony was held at the Royal Albert Hall and screened by ITV.
So, here’s Tim sporting that fetching Friar Tuck beard, backed by some of the cast of the Old Vic production and the BBC Concert Orchestra:
(The backing was for the song not the facial hair).
Did you spot the cute lil groundhog on every page yet? In the tabs ^ up there ^.
There’s further information about Groundhog Day The Musical on the shiny new Groundhog Day Page, including more videos, how to get tickets and where to find the Original Cast Recording. Plus, you can now DOWNLOAD the Lyric Book directly from the page.
Best Musical Best Book of a Musical – Danny Rubin Best Original Score (Music and Lyrics) Written for the Theatre – Tim Minchin Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical – Andy Karl Best Direction of a Musical – Matthew Warchus Best Choreography – Peter Darling and Ellen Kane Best Scenic Design of a Musical – Rob Howell
The 71st Annual Tony Awards will be on Sunday 11th June, 2017, with Kevin Spacey as host. The ceremony will air on the CBS Television Network at 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT, live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Many congratulations to Tim and everyone at Groundhog Day Broadway!
The Outer Critics Circle are the organisation of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway.
Today, the Broadway production of Groundhog Day received FIVE nominations for the Outer Critics Circle Awards:
Outstanding New Broadway Musical Outstanding Book of A Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) – Danny Rubin Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) – Tim Minchin Outstanding Director of A Musical – Matthew Warchus Outstanding Actor in a Musical – Andy Karl
The winners will be announced by press release on Monday 8th May, 2017, with the awards presented on Thursday 25th May, at the annual Gala Awards Dinner at Sardi’s.
Tickets 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.
The CD was released on the 12th May and is available to order from Broadway Records and Amazon (internationally). Plus other stores worldwide, such as Barnes & Noble and HMV.
The Broadway production of Groundhog Day received two Drama League Awards nominations today!
Outstanding Production of a Musical
and Distinguished Performance for Andy Karl.
The Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honours in America. Created in 1935, they honour distinguished productions and performances both on Broadway and Off-Broadway.
A full list of 2017 nominees can be found here. The winners will be announced at the 83rd Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 19th, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Times Square, NYC.
Andy Karl as Phil Connors (Photo by Joan Marcus)
Tickets are on sale from Ticketmaster.com or by calling (800) 745-3000. Additional information can be found at groundhogdaymusical.com and you can listen to the full Groundhog Day (Original Broadway Cast Recording) album here before its release on Friday.
Last night the New York production of Groundhog Day, for which Tim wrote the music and lyrics, opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway to joyful cheers and a full standing ovation.
The reviews are in, with praise flowing for all aspects of the production, but especially for leading man Andy Karl, who fought back from injury to play weatherman Phil Connors.
The New York Times (Critic’s Pick)
Ben Brantley hails that “A Star Is Born (and Born and Born)… Repetition is an art of infinite variety as it’s practiced by Andy Karl in ‘Groundhog Day’, the dizzyingly witty new musical from the creators of ‘Matilda’.”
“Mr. Karl is so outrageously inventive in ringing changes on the same old, same old, that you can’t wait for another (almost identical) day to dawn… Thanks to his character’s successive reincarnations, Mr. Karl is giving not one but many of the best performances of the season.”
“The insanely talented Mr. Minchin writes songs in many shades… undulating melodies and whip-smart lyrics tap into the brooding sides of the supporting characters, extending the reach of existential anxiety beyond Phil’s solipsism.”
Tim & fellow creatives Danny Rubin (Book) & Matthew Warchus (Director)
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney declares that “‘Groundhog Day’ is a delirious reinvention with its own defiantly unique personality, a relentless forward-backward spin that leaves you smiling, exhilarated and giddy.”
“Karl gives a musical-comedy performance of the highest caliber, sliding from self-centered insouciance into surprising open-heartedness, displaying a seemingly inexhaustible range of physical expressiveness along the way.”
“Madly entertaining… Worth repeating.”
New York Post
Johnny Oleksinski calls it “A miracle on Broadway… [Karl’s] performance — a suave, comic wonder… [in] songwriter Tim Minchin’s deliriously zany, yet touching show.” (more…)
The digital album can be pre-ordered from iTunes or Amazon internationally, for example, US Amazon and UK Amazon. Otherwise simply search your Amazon store.
If I Had My Time Again and Seeing You will download immediately on both iTunes and Amazon with Hope downloading immediately on Amazon only, at the moment.
The CD is available for pre-order from Broadway Records and Amazon (internationally).
Digital Release Date: April 21st
Physical Release Date: May 5th
Groundhog Day Broadway has its official Opening Night, on Monday, at the August Wilson Theatre in New York! Tickets and more information can be found on the Groundhog Day Broadway website.
Today, the Royal Shakespeare Company announced that Matilda The Musical will be touring the UK and Ireland in 2018-2019, opening first at Leicester Curve in March 2018. (It will continue to play, at the Cambridge Theatre, in London).
Tim said: “I – like millions of others – feel like Dahl is in my blood, because I grew up with his books. So to have contributed to a piece of work that brings one of his most famous stories to life is one of my life’s great joys. I’m utterly thrilled that audiences in cities all across the UK and Ireland will now share and be part of Matilda’s story.”
The dates announced, so far, for the RSC’s touring production of Matilda The Musical are:
Leicester Curve (5th March – 24th March, 2018) Dublin Bord Gais Energy Theatre (4th April – 28th April, 2018) Sunderland Empire (8th May – 2nd June, 2018) Milton Keynes Theatre (5th June – 30th June, 2018) Birmingham Hippodrome (3rd July – 8th September, 2018) Manchester Palace (18th September – 24th November, 2018) Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre (4th December – 12th January, 2019)
Matilda has a dedicated UK and Ireland tour page, including a tour map, to which further dates and venues will be added in due course.
Tickets for Leicester, Dublin, Sunderland, Milton Keynes, Manchester and Cardiff will go on sale on 26th April, following a priority booking period from 19th April. Tickets for Birmingham go on sale on 9th May, after a priority booking from 25th April. (more…)
Sporting a fetching Friar Tuck beard, Tim accepted the award on behalf of the UK company and the creative team. Most of the creatives – including director Matthew Warchus, book-writer Danny Rubin, and music supervisor Chris Nightingale – were unable to attend the ceremony, as they are in New York ahead of Groundhog Day’s Broadway opening next Monday!
The award will not be lonely on Tim’s mantelpiece; Matilda the Musical won Best New Musical in 2012.
Earlier in the evening, Andy Karl had won the Olivier for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Phil Connors. His award was accepted by Georgie Hagen (who played Nancy in the London production), as Andy is reprising his Phil in the Broadway version.
Tim performed ‘Hope’, a song from the show, backed by some of the cast of the Old Vic production and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
The ceremony will be broadcast on ITV on Tuesday 11th April from 8pm to 10pm BST and then available to view on the ITV Hub for 30 days. It will also be broadcast worldwide (ex-UK) at 8pm BST on Facebook Live. More details here.
Shortly after accepting the Best New Musical Olivier for Groundhog Day Photo by Darren Bell
Both songs are available on Spotify and to download now from iTunes.
The digital album can be pre-ordered from iTunes or Amazon internationally. Release dates and details here.
The CD is available for pre-order from Broadway Records and Amazon (internationally).
Groundhog Day is heading into its final week of previews at the August Wilson Theatre in New York. Opening Night is on April 17th. Tickets and more information can be found on the Groundhog Day Broadway website.
Today, Scholastic announced a global deal for a new magical picture book inspired by When I Grow Up, Tim’s hit song from the acclaimed and multi-award-winning Matilda the Musical.
The book will be illustrated by Steve Antony, an internationally published award-winning author and illustrator. It will imagine life from a child’s viewpoint, with all the humour and poignancy of the song.
Tim says: “I feel incredibly lucky to be able to lend my lyrics to a children’s book. I adore Steve’s work, and it’s been a thrill to watch him develop his gorgeous illustrations. I can’t wait to hold a copy in my hands.”
Steve says: “I feel so lucky and honoured to be working on such an exciting and unique picture book project with Tim and the team at Scholastic. Adapting Tim’s beautiful and emotive song into a visual narrative really is a dream job and has allowed me and my inner child to indulge in a world of imagination, fun, hope and possibility.”
‘When I Grow Up’ by Tim Minchin and Steve Antony will publish in the UK in October 2017.
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.
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