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.)
Tim’s been cast as Friar Tuck in a gritty new take on the classic Robin Hood story.
Scripted by Joby Harold and directed by Otto Bathurst, Robin Hood: Origins is scheduled for release in the US March 2018.
Taron Egerton will play Robin Hood, with Jamie Foxx as Little John and Eve Hewson, Maid Marian. Jamie Dornan, Ben Mendelsohn and Paul Anderson also star in the action-adventure feature,
Filming will take place in Croatia and Hungary, where some training has already taken place.
Those of you watching Tim’s Instagram account, a couple of weeks ago, now have an explanation for those photos in boots, on horseback and more.
In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, USA, Phil (the superstar Groundhog) will be closely watched as he leaves his burrow. According to the tradition, if Phil sees his shadow and returns to his hole, he’s predicted six more weeks of wintery weather but if Phil does not see his shadow, he’s predicted an early spring.
In the meantime, let’s celebrate by listening to ‘Seeing You’ performed by Tim and some of the cast and musicians from the Old Vic production of Groundhog Day at the 20th South Bank Sky Arts Awards last year.
To skip the intro start at 0:36.
‘Seeing You’ is from the musical Groundhog Day, created by Danny Rubin (book), Tim (music and lyrics) and Matthew Warchus (director). The arrangement is by Chris Nightingale.
Backing singers: Jack Shalloo, Carolyn Maitland, Georgina Hagen and Kieran Jae.
Musicians: Fiona Leggat, Justin Pearson, Rutledge Turnlund, Charlie Brown, Amy May and Andy McGlasson.
Groundhog Day’s hugely successful and critically acclaimed 10 week season at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in the summer of 2016, recently won FOUR 2016 BroadwayWorld UK/West End Awards including Theatrical Event of the Year AND The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical at the U.K. Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards. (more…)
APRA members across Australia have voted to shortlist Come Home (Cardinal Pell) for the 2017 APRA Song of the Year. This is the largest peer-voted music award in Australia.
The Top 20 will now be voted on by a specialist Voting Academy, consisting of previous nominees from the Awards’ 23 year history, with the nominees announced in early March. For more information head to the APRA website.
There’s even an APRA Song of the Year Top 20 playlist on Spotify, which you can listen to for free here or if you use the Spotify app, search for user: apraamcos to find the playlist.
Proceeds from Come Home (Cardinal Pell) continue to be donated to the survivors of clerical abuse. You can buy the song here (as well on other platforms) and you can also purchase the video here
Here’s Tim’s blog, from February last year, about why he wrote and released the song as a charity single and his follow up statement.
Andy Karl will reprise his much lauded London performance as Phil Connors, a cynical Pittsburgh TV weatherman sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event in the small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Caught in a time loop, he’s forced to relive the same day again and again…and again.
Barrett Doss will play Rita Hanson. Joining them are Rebecca Faulkenberry, John Sanders, Andrew Call, Raymond J. Lee, Heather Ayers, Kevin Bernard, Gerard Canonico, Rheaume Crenshaw, Michael Fatica, Katy Geraghty, Camden Gonzales, Jordan Grubb, Taylor Iman Jones, Tari Kelly, Josh Lamon, Joseph Medeiros, Sean Montgomery, William Parry, Jenna Rubaii, Vishal Vaidya, Travis Waldschmidt and Natalie Wisdom.
The further three awards were for: Best Direction of a New Production of a Musical – Matthew Warchus, Best Set Design of a New Production of a Play or Musical – Rob Howell and Best Lighting Design of a New Production of a Play or Musical – Hugh Vanstone.
You’ll find the full list of 2016 BroadwayWorld UK/West End Awards winners here.
Yesterday evening, following a sensational, Tony Award winning run, Matilda The Musical closed on Broadway, but our eponymous hero is off on a NEW US Tour which launches January 12th, 2017!
Matilda opened on Broadway in April 2013, to marvellous reviews and has delighted audiences across a run comprising 1,555 performances, on top of 37 preview performances.
Direct from the Toronto show, Hannah Levinson, Jaime MacLean, and Jenna Weir share the title role. The principal cast features: Paula Brancati (Miss Honey), Dan Chameroy (Miss Trunchbull), Keisha T. Fraser (Mrs. Phelps), Brandon McGibbon (Mr. Wormwood), and Darcy Stewart (Mrs. Wormwood).
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