Studio 360 is an American public radio programme about the arts and culture hosted by novelist Kurt Andersen. On the weekend of the Tony Awards Kurt meets some of this year’s Broadway stars, including Tom Hanks, and talks to Tim about writing the music and lyrics for Matilda The Musical which has TWELVE Tony nominations! Tim also takes his place at a grand piano to perform a few songs from the show.
You can listen to Tim’s segment right now, if you like, by streaming or downloading the podcasthere.
There’s also this lovely video of Tim performing “When I Grow Up” at the shiniest piano in the world!
If you’d like to catch the whole show, the New York air times are listed below but you can hear the programme all around the US – visit Studio 360’s website for more info about local airings. It’s distributed internationally by PRI (Public Radio International) and WNYC in New York City and you can stream or download the whole programme here.
Studio 360 airs in New York on:
Saturday 8th June at 4pm on WNYC FM (93.9)
Sunday 9th June at 11am on WNYC FM (93.9)
Sunday 9th June at 2pm on WNYC AM (820)
The spectacular Jesus Christ Superstar arena tour of Australia is already rocking around the country, with Tim reprising his (award winning) dream role of Judas Iscariot, for delighted and emotional home crowds.
If you can’t make it along to one of the shows or missed picking up a DVD at the arena and want to relive the experience, then here’s some good news:
The Jesus Christ Superstar Arena Tour DVD will be released in Australia on the 4th July 2013! The DVD (or Blu-Ray, if you wish to examine Tim’s dreads, tatts or steely blues in minute detail) is available for pre-order now from: the Jesus Christ Superstar website, EZYDVD, JB Hi-Fi and many other DVD retailers.
The production was filmed over two nights at Birmingham’s NIA when the show toured UK arenas in 2012. As well as Tim in the role of Judas, the fabulous cast includes Melanie C as Mary Magdalene, Chris Moyles as King Herod and Winner of the ITV primetime show Superstar Ben Forster in the title role of Jesus.
Here are a few clips to get you in the mood… or rather various moods: (more…)
The Jesus Christ Superstar Australian Arena Tour kicks off this Friday, in Perth! Tim and the rest of the cast, musicians and crew were reunited and started rehearsals yesterday.
A great many of the shows are now sold out but you can still pick up tickets for: the Perth matinee on the 2nd June; both the matinee and evening shows in Sydney on the 9th June; Melbourne matinee and evening shows 14th-16th June and for the final show of the tour Brisbane on the evening of the 18th June.
Just in case you’ve missed the earlier announcements: Tim’s reprising his award-winning performance as Judas Iscariot for the Australian arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, while Melanie C and Ben Forster will also be returning in their roles from the UK production as Mary Magdalene and Jesus.
Deal or No Deal host Andrew O’Keefe will play King Herod and Jon Stevens, who appeared as Judas Iscariot in the 1992 Australian arena tour of the show is taking on the role of Pontius Pilate.
Tim will be joining his partners in crime – writer Dennis Kelly, director Matthew Warchus and actor Bertie Carvel – to talk to Charlie Rose about the runaway success of Broadway’s hottest new show (not that we’re biased or anything), Matilda the Musical.
The show will air tonight, 15th May 2013, in America on PBS. The time that the show airs depends on which your region you’re in, so to find out when you’ll be able to see it, please visit the PBS website. As a rough guide though, it’ll be somewhere between 10pm and 11pm. The show will be repeated tomorrow lunchtime and the interview will be available on the Charlie Rose website shortly afterwards.
Charlie Rose also airs internationally on Bloomberg Television the next day, so those in the UK will be able to catch it tomorrow night, 16th May 2013 at 10pm. Bloomberg Television is also available on Foxtel in Australia, where it should air at 1am on the 17th May 2013, but please check your local listings.
Theater Talk is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins. In April they recorded an episode devoted to Matilda The Musical, on Broadway, talking to Tim, Dennis Kelly and Bertie Carvel.
The episode aired originally on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston and CUNY TV have now put it up on their YouTube channel for a wider audience:
The series is produced by Theater Talk Productions, a not-for-profit corporation and is funded by contributions from private foundations and individuals, as well as The New York State Council on the Arts. www.cuny.tv/show/theatertalk
Last night, the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards ceremony was held at the Time Warner Center.
Tim collected the award for Favorite New Song for ‘When I Grow Up’ and Bertie Carvel won Favorite Breakthrough Performance. Three of Tim’s songs had been nominated as we blogged here. Thank you to all those who cast their votes for Matilda.
UPDATE: There’s now a little interview and a pic of Tim with the award on the Broadway.com website.
There’s more: On Friday Matilda the Musical won Best Musical at the 78th annual New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards! The Circle comprises twenty six drama critics from the daily newspapers, magazines and wire services, based in the New York City area. They meet twice a year, at the end of each theatre season, to vote on the awards.
Oh and voting opened on the 2nd May for the 11th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards and runs until 31st May 2013. Matilda the Musical has NINE nominations:
Best Musical Best Score – Tim Minchin Best Book of a Musical – Dennis Kelly Best Choreography – Peter Darling Best Direction of a Musical – Matthew Warchus Best Leading Actor in a Musical – Bertie Carvel Best Lighting Design – Hugh Vanstone Best Scenic Design – Rob Howell Best Sound Design of a Musical – Simon N. Baker
So if you’ve got more voting juice left in your typing fingers, then please click here to vote.
You can read more about the show’s story and see photos, videos and reviews on the Matilda Page. Or check out the HUGE list of further awards the show is nominated for this year, including twelve Tonys.
On Sunday, Tim performed ‘My House’ from Matilda The Musical at the glamorous Olivier Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. The audience loved it but was not shown on the ITV highlights (tut tut!) so just in case you’ve missed the many tweets about it over the last few days here it is:
Here’s the buzz. I’ll tell you what’s a-happening:
With the the Jesus Christ Superstar arena tour dates selling out at most venues across the country, additional shows have been added in Perth and Brisbane.
Sunday 2th June 2013
Perth Arena
Tuesday 18th June 2013
Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Tickets go on general sale from 9am local time, Tuesday 7th May 2013. The full list of dates can be found at jesuschristsuperstar.com.
If you’ve missed our earlier announcements: Tim’s reprising his award-winning performance as Judas Iscariot for the Australian arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, while Melanie C and Ben Forster will also be returning in their roles from the UK production as Mary Magdalene and Jesus.
Deal or No Deal host Andrew O’Keefe will play King Herod and Jon Stevens, who appeared as Judas Iscariot in the 1992 Australian arena tour of the show is taking on the role of Pontius Pilate.
Matilda the Musical on Broadway has earned itself a whopping TWELVE nominations for this year’s Tony Awards!
Best Musical Best Book of a Musical – Dennis Kelly Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre – Tim Minchin (Music & Lyrics) Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical – Bertie Carvel (Miss Trunchbull) Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical – Gabriel Ebert (Mr Wormwood) Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical – Lauren Ward (Miss Honey) Best Direction of a Musical – Matthew Warchus Best Choreography – Peter Darling Best Orchestrations – Chris Nightingale Best Scenic Design of a Musical – Rob Howell Best Costume Design of a Musical – Rob Howell Best Lighting Design of a Musical – Hugh Vanstone
Tony Honours for Excellence in the Theatre – The four actresses who created the title role of Matilda The Musical on Broadway: Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro.
For the full list of nominations in each category visit the Tony Awards website. The 67th Annual Tony Awards ceremony will take place on the 9th June, 2013, at Radio City Music Hall. There will be a CBS telecast and outdoor Times Square simulcast.
Congratulations to Tim and everyone at Matilda The Musical Broadway on this amazing news! (more…)
It’s the Olivier Awards 2013 ceremony at the Royal Opera House, in London, tonight! The glamorous and star-studded event, which honours the very best in British theatre, will be hosted by Sheridan Smith and Hugh Bonneville.
Tim’ll be there, looking spiffing and twinkly, presenting the award for Best New Musical and he’ll be performing a song from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda The Musical, for which he wrote the music and lyrics.
In April, last year, having received the maximum possible ten nominations, Matilda The Musical skipped away with a Guinness World Record breaking SEVEN 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical!
This year Matilda The Musical is up 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 see who Matilda is up against and the full list of 2013 nominees here.
The Awards run from 6:30pm to 9.30pm and ITV is showing 90 minutes of highlights 10:15pm to 11:45pm. This will be on the ITV Player next week.
If you’re in London you can watch the arrivals and ceremony on screens in Covent Garden from 4pm, otherwise you can listen live on BBC Radio 2 from 6pm.
There’s more detail and razzmatazz on the Olivier Awards website and for behind-the-scenes Oliviers’ photos you can head to their Instagram page here.
Tomorrow evening, Thursday 18th April 2013, 9:30pm – 10:30pm, The South Bank Show on Sky Arts 1 profiles Tim!
Melvyn Bragg talks to Tim about his career, his love of language, rhymes, satire and exploring taboos. There will be live footage of Tim performing at the Royal Albert Hall with the fabulous Heritage Orchestra and from the Coronet gig in London last year.
The programme traces quite a bit of Tim’s early life in Australia, his childhood, education, early career and eventual decision to move to the UK. Tim’s brother Dan gets to spill some Minchin beans and you’ll even see some family photos.
In the studio Tim performs ‘When I Grow Up’ from Matilda The Musical and talks about writing the music and lyrics for the show. Director Matthew Warchus and writer Dennis Kelly are interviewed about working with him on the project.
You’ll find more details about the show and three taster clips, including one with Tim talking about controversy and another about Matilda The Musical on the Sky Arts website here.
The programme will be repeated on Thursday 18th April at 12:45am, Sky Arts 1 and on Sunday 21st April at 1:05am, Sky Arts 1.
There are 16 categories and Matilda The Musical has been nominated in five of them, including Favorite Musical. Three of Tim’s songs are up for Favorite song and Bertie Carvel is listed in three categories for reprising his role as the hilarious and formidable Miss Trunchbull.
Favorite New Musical – Matilda Favorite Actor in a Musical – Bertie Carvel, Matilda Favorite Diva Performance – Bertie Carvel, Matilda Favorite Breakthrough Performance – Bertie Carvel, Matilda Favorite New Song – ‘Revolting Children’, Matilda; ‘The Smell of Rebellion’, Matilda and ‘When I Grow Up’, Matilda.
Last night the New York production of Matilda The Musical, for which Tim wrote the music and lyrics, opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway to delighted cheers and a full standing ovation. The show, which has been in previews since the 4th March 2013, is today swinging high, feet kicking up to the sky at the marvellously glowing reviews across the board:
The New York Times
Ben Brantley describes Matilda as “the most satisfying and subversive musical ever to come out of Britain, where it was nurtured into life by the Royal Shakespeare Company… even more glorious than we were promised… truly revolutionary.”
The Washington Post
Peter Marks says “‘Matilda’ [is] by some large and tickling measure the most splendiferous new musical of the year…
With a delectably clever score by Tim Minchin and a slyly evocative book by Dennis Kelly, the musical, is distinguished by its wonderful look and a caliber of choreography for young people you rarely ever experience.” (more…)
Tim is to present a three part documentary on Absolute Radio about the life and career of David Bowie this month.
The first part of the series will focus on Bowie’s early life in post-war Brixton and career up to Ziggy (1947-1973), the second on the golden era of the Thin White Duke to Scary Monsters (1973-1980), while the last part will range from Let’s Dance to the new album The Next Day (1980 to 2013) and the V&A’s current David Bowie Is exhibition.
The story will be told by the friends and musicians who have played a part in Bowie’s life over six decades and it includes contributions from Bowie’s childhood friend and artist George Underwood, touring guitarist John “Hutch” Hutchinson and his guitarist Mick Ronson’s widow Suzi.
BOWIE will be broadcast, in three hour-long episodes, on Absolute Radio here, at 7pm on consecutive Sundays: the 7th, 14th and 21st April 2013. There will be also be a series of short online films featuring additional material and interviews. It will air again and be available on the website during the term of the exhibition at the V&A (until 11th August).
So if your inner Bowie nerd is crying out for your rock ‘n’ roll nerd to tell you all about that amazingly colourful career then this is the programme for you.
UPDATE: If you’ve missed any of these episodes then you can listen again here.
Tickets go on general sale from 9am local time, Monday 15th April 2013. The full list of dates can be found at jesuschristsuperstar.com.
Just in case you’ve missed our earlier announcements: Tim’s reprising his award-winning performance as Judas Iscariot for the Australian arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, while Melanie C and Ben Forster will also be returning in their roles from the UK production as Mary Magdalene and Jesus.
Deal or No Deal host Andrew O’Keefe will play King Herod and Jon Stevens, who appeared as Judas Iscariot in the 1992 Australian arena tour of the show is taking on the role of Pontius Pilate.
Tim will be joining his partners in crime – writer Dennis Kelly, director Matthew Warchus and actor Bertie Carvel – to talk to Charlie Rose about the runaway success of Broadway’s hottest new show (not that we’re biased or anything), Matilda the Musical.
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