If you missed out on tickets to see Tim pretending to be Judas in Autumn, then fear not. Due to popular demand, a second UK tour of Jesus Christ Superstar has been scheduled for March 2013!
The main cast will remain the same, with Tim reprising his role as Judas, while Melanie C will play Mary Magdalene, Ben Forster will play Jesus and Chris Moyles will play King Herod.
You’ll be able to see Tim’s show-stealing performances at the following venues on the following dates:
Nottingham Capital FM Arena
10th March 2013
London O2 Arena
13th March 2013
Liverpool Echo Arena
15th March 2013
Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
17th March 2013
Manchester Arena
24th March 2013
Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
26th March 2013
Birmingham NIA
28th March 2013
Tickets will go on sale on Friday 7th December at 9am from jesuschristsuperstar.com.
Tim will be on Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1 this afternoon. The show airs between 1pm and 4pm but the ATT* is 2:40pm.
They’ll be playing the lovely new studio version of ‘White Wine In The Sun’, available on iTunes and now Amazon too, the December proceeds for which all go to the National Autistic Society, as Tim announced here.
If you can’t listen live you’ll be able to catch it on the BBC iPlayer later.
*Approximate Timmy Time
As some of you might have already spotted on Twitter, the long clamoured for official Matilda The Musical Songbook is now available for pre-order from The RSC here and Musicroom here! You can see the song list and preview some of the book’s pages via those links.
It is released on Monday 10th December 2012.
This songbook presents all Tim’s songs from the show, arranged for voice and piano with chord symbols. There’s also an eight-page colour photo section and Tim’s written an exclusive foreword/tip sheet explaining a little about his writing for Matilda and giving hints as to how everyone can enjoy the book to the max!
If you’re in the UK, you can watch some of the cast perform one of the show-stopping favourites on the 100th Royal Variety Performance tonight, Monday 3rd December, at 7:30pm on ITV.
Tim’s Judas is coming to Canada!
Here’s the chance for Canadians to see a shod, dreadlocked Tim betray Jesus, as he performs in screenings of the UK arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar!
The screenings will take place across a limited number of cinemas tomorrow, 2nd December and Wednesday, 5th December. You can find your nearest one at CinePlex.com.
If you’re still umming and ahhing over whether you should see the spectacle for yourself, you should head over to this post, watch the clips from the show and then imagine them on a big screen! If that doesn’t convince you, then nothing will.
It’s been six years since I wrote my little tribute to Christmas, and I’ve finally recorded a studio version. Huzzah!
You can get it here. I’m sorry it’s only on iTunes at the moment – we finished mixing it only hours ago and just wanted to get it up somewhere as soon as possible.
As in previous years, all proceeds from the sale of this song during the month of December will go to the National Autistic Society.
Hope you like it!
tx
Update: Now available on Amazon (UK) and Amazon (US) too, for “non-apple people”.
The proceeds from this Wednesday’s show are going to Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). It is an awesome organisation. If you wanna know more, click here.
The show has for some time been sold out, but you now have a chance to overcome such dreary limitations. MSF has a handful of tickets to give away… in exchange for a little bit of labour!
All you have to do to win entry for two people is to send an email to [email protected] with the following statement: “I promise to stand in the foyer of the Coronet holding a bucket and shouting “donations!” for up to 45 minutes at the end of the gig”.
Two winners will be picked at at random at 9am tomorrow morning. Easy huh?
Love yez.
tx
UPDATE: We now have two lucky winners. They will be contacted about their tickets (and buckets) shortly.
Shell
You might remember that, this autumn, Tim had a little* role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s UK touring arena production of Jesus Christ Superstar as Judas Iscariot.
If you missed the tour or simply want to relive the experience then you’ll like this – the DVD of the show is out today! Filmed over two nights at Birmingham’s NIA, this modern reworking of the rock opera sees the last days of Jesus set amongst the London riots.
You can pick up the DVD (or Blu-Ray, if you like seeing every bead of sweat on Tim’s face) from all good retailers, both online and offline.
If you’re outside the UK, there are plans afoot to release it internationally early next year.
Anyway, enough of the talking, here are some clips so you can see what you’ll be getting!
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The producers of the Broadway production of Matilda the Musical have announced the four, plucky actresses who will be taking on the titular role and the actor who’ll be playing the part of the tyrannical Miss Trunchbull!
You lucky people get to see Bertie Carvel making his Broadway debut, reprising the role of the fearsome headmistress of Crunchem Hall, for which he picked up the Best Actor in a Musical award at the Oliviers last year!
In no particular order (not even alphabetical), the four girls who will alternate playing the feisty heroine, Matilda, are Oona Laurence, Milly Shapiro, Bailey Ryon and Sophia Gennua!
All four girls are seasoned performers, having taken on a large number of roles between them, however this role will see them all making their Broadway debuts!
The rest of the cast will be announced at a later date.
The show opens at the Shubert Theater on the 11th April 2013, with previews from the 4th March 2013, and tickets are available to buy now from this link.
The Broadway Matildas - Oona Laurence, Milly Shapiro, Sophia Gennusa, and Bailey Ryon
Tim’s headlining the Stand Up For Shelter comedy night at the Hammersmith Apollo, London on the 27th February 2013.
There’s a fabulous line up joining him including Alistair McGowan, Stewart Francis, Sara Pascoe and musical performers The Cuban Brothers plus more to be announced.
Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday 16th November, at 9am and will be available here.
UPDATE Fri 16/11 09:22: Some are reporting that the above link via the Shelter website does not work on some mobile phones so try the Hammersmith Apollo site here if that is an issue.
They are priced at £30 with a limited number of VIP tickets at £50. There’s a competition to win two VIP tickets via the same link.
Tim says: “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.”
Shelter is a UK charity that works hard with people affected by homelessness and bad housing conditions. They give advice, information and advocacy and campaign for lasting political change in an effort to end the housing crisis for good. They have a Christmas Emergency appeal running at the moment to try to help the thousands of children spending Christmas without a home or decent living conditions. More information can be found here.
This may or may not be Tim's outfit on Friday...
Tim has already performed on the live Weekend Wogan special for Children in Need this year, but the fuzzy Australian just loves a certain bandaged bear so much that he’ll also be appearing on Children in Need on Friday, 16th November!
Your favourite unshod comedian/actor/musician/rockstar/fool (delete as appropriate) will be rocking his “dragged through a hedge backwards” look next to guitarist Dan Clews for a rendition of White Wine In The Sun at some point during the six-hour marathon show! We anticipate that he’ll be appearing after midnight (hope you’ve got plenty of caffeine handy) but as it’s a live event, it’s possible that things might change. The programme kicks off at 7:30pm.
Children in Need is the BBC’s UK corporate charity and they provide grants to projects in the UK that focus on children and young people who are disadvantaged. They support small and large organisations which empower children and extend their life choices. You can read more about the work they do here.
Tim will be on Geoff Lloyd’s Hometime Show on Absolute Radio today (5pm-8pm). The *Approximate Timmy Time (ATT) is 6pm.
Then next week on Wednesday 21st November he’ll be on the Xfm Breakfast Show with Danny Wallace (6am-10am). The ATT for that is 8.30am.
He’ll be chatting about his role as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar and the DVD and Blu-ray release of the show which is coming out on the 19th November 2012.
Tim, fresh and toned from his recent roles in Californication and Jesus Christ Superstar, is returning to the comedy stage, for your delight, with his band: the delicious Pete, Brad and Tristan. This quartet of outstanding natural beauty and musical talent will be performing Tim’s lyrical, satirical and beautiful songs at The Coronet, London, on Wednesday 28th November 2012, in preparation for their appearance at Homebake Festival, Sydney, Oz.
Tim says: “We will be playing the tunes you saw us play at UK Festivals during the summer, unless you didn’t go to any, in which case we will be playing the tunes you missed. (To be clear: this is old material… but it’s fucking great fun. Having said that, we may well play a couple of rarely-performed ‘serious’ tunes later in the night.)
Come.”
Tickets are on sale now (and have been for a little while. A perk of being on Tim’s mailing list is that you get occasional but invaluable tip-offs for such things).
Standing Dancing! – £16.50
Seated – £18.00
Prices are inclusive of fees and for the first time sold via this very website here. Hooray!
Doors open at 7pm with the show starting at 8pm.
Tim will be performing two songs, from Matilda The Musical, tomorrow morning on Weekend Wogan, live from the Savoy Theatre, for Children in Need.
He joins Wogan and other special guests including Dionne Warwick, Spice Girls Melanie C and Emma Bunton, The Overtones, Matt Cardle and James Torme to perform live on stage. The house band will be Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra.
Weekend Wogan is on BBC Radio 2 from 11am – 1pm tomorrow 28th October 2012 but if you miss it you’ll be able to catch it on the BBC iPlayer shortly after it airs.
More information about the charity can be found here including the appeal-night line up. Hint: A certain tousle haired musician will be making an appearance but we’ll remind you about that nearer the time.
If you’re outside of the UK and Ireland, within Australia or the USA and want to see Tim rocking out as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar, then you’re going to like this announcement!
We’re excited to announce that the UK arena production of Jesus Christ Superstar will be hitting the cinema screens of the USA and Australia very shortly!
Americans, you can catch the show on 29th October 2012 and 1st November 2012 in participating theatres. You can find your nearest cinema and purchase tickets over at FathomEvents.com.
UPDATE 29th Oct 2012, 21:30 GMT: Sorry to report that Fathom Events have just announced on Twitter: “Jesus Christ Superstar fans – due to circumstances beyond our control-the event scheduled for tonight & Thurs 11/1 has been cancelled”. Their account can be found @fathomevents and further information can be found on their Facebook page here. We’ll let you know if we hear of any developments.
In Australia, the screenings will run for a week starting on the 8th November 2012. You can find the list of cinemas showing it over at JesusChristSuperstarMovie.com.au, along with ticketing links and trailers.
As for the DVD of the show, we can confirm that it will be receiving an international release in early 2013! There are no further details at the moment but when we get more information we’ll let you know.
Tim’s been shortlisted for The Hospital Club 100 and public voting is now open. You can vote for Tim in the theatre category here.
In media partnership with Time Out London, the h.Club100 is a list compiled by national search looking to champion and celebrate all those individuals who have brought the most influence, innovation and inspiration to the British Creative and Media industries in the past 12 months.
Members of the public nominated in each of the 10 categories for Time Out’s Wild Card. Time Out then selected one nomination per category to go forward to join their industry-selected peers for the public vote. Tim is the Wild Haired Time Out Wild Card Nominee in the Theatre category.
The final 100 will be announced at an event in early November and there’ll be a special Time Out cover feature on the 100.
To learn more about the list and to see all the categories and nominees visit: www.thehospitalclub.com/100
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