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.
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.
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 from11am – 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.
Tim has won the 2012 Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer for Tim Minchin vs The Orchestras Round II.
This is Tim’s third Helpmann. Last year he won the 2011 Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work with Tim Minchin Vs Sydney Symphony and back in 2009 he won the Award for Best Comedy Performer for his show Ready For This?
The prestigious Helpmann Awards, established in 2001 by Live Performance Australia, were announced this evening, at their 12th annual awards ceremony at the Sydney Opera House. They recognise excellence in many areas of Australian live performance, including musical theatre, contemporary music, classical music, comedy, opera, theatre and dance.
You can find more information about the awards including the full list of nominees in Tim’s category and indeed all the others here. The full 2012 winners list will also appear shortly.
Tonight, Tim hits the stage at the O2, for the first time as Judas in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s spectacular UK arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar.
To coincide with opening night, we’re pleased to announce that there will be a DVD and Blu-ray release of the show coming out on the 19th November 2012.
Along with Tim in the role of Judas Iscariot, the fabulous line up includes Melanie C as Mary Magdalene, Chris Moyles as King Herod and Winner of the ITV primetime show SuperstarBen Forster in the title role of Jesus. For more information about the show visit the Jesus Christ Superstar website or our previous blog here.
The show will be filmed live as part of the 2012 arena tour, so you’ll be able to relive it if you’re lucky enough to have tickets or to experience it fresh if you’re not able to make it along to any of the dates.
This evening at 7.15pm on BBC Radio 4 you can tune in to Front Row to hear Tim, Mel C and Chris Moyles talking to Mark Lawson about staring in the first ever UK arena tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar which is opening at the O2 this Friday.
The programme will be available shortly after it airs on the BBC iPlayer. Update: It is now up here and will be available until January 2099. Seriously! So plenty of time to listen.
Earlier today Tim and Mel C popped in to see Huw Stephenson BBC Radio 1, to chat about rehearsing together and inevitably hair/wigs. Update: This is now up on the BBC iPlayerhere. It is just a 10 minute interview starting at about 1:39 and will be available for 6 days.
If you somehow missed the announcement that Tim is playing Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar you can catch-up by looking back at our May announcement here or visit www.jesuschristsuperstar.com for details and tickets.
Updated 20th Sept’ 2012 to add direct iPlayer links.
Showtime have announced the date for the premiere of the sixth season of Californication!
The first episode will go out on Sunday 13th January 2013 at 10:30pm ET/PT. It’s a long time to wait, but we’ll be sure to post a reminder for you closer to the time.
If you’re wondering why this is a big deal, that’ll be because Tim’s playing the coked-up rock star Atticus Fetch in most of the episodes, adapting Hank’s first novel, God Hates Us All, into a musical.
With other characters announced including Fetch’s wife, a professional groupie and Marilyn Manson, it’s sure to be one hell of season!
I loaned my sexy vocal folds to Adam and Tracy and Dan for the duration of this cool animation. Here’s Tracy to tell you more about it:
Tim and Adam Rutherford at the vocal recording
DC Turner checking the storyboard at the vocal recording
Tracy King:Last year saw the release of Storm, the ten-minute animated beat poem that became somewhat of an anthem for critical thinking and enabled my partner, Dan ‘DC’ Turner, and myself to start an animation and game dev company to make more of the same.
On Monday we released the second of our ‘public engagement with science’ films, this time a four-minute short commissioned by Nature to celebrate and communicate ENCODE, a huge genome data project.
The short is called ‘The Story of You‘, and is narrated by Tim. When Nature told us Tim would do the voiceover, my first reaction was “yay!” followed by “oh wait that means listening to that voice 12 hours a day for months…again”.
The end result is something we’re very proud of. I’m not a scientist, I’m a science enthusiast, and think one of the best ways educating is to inspire people to educate themselves. This is easily done through entertainment. The science of genomics is not straightforward, but the ideas are – and if you can communicate those whilst making viewers smile or laugh, they’ll feel good about the science. Some of them will go and find out more, and that can only lead to good things. Someone on Twitter said their toddler was saying “hello Gregor!” along with Tim. Though the video isn’t aimed at kids (it’s aimed at kids, adults, or just anyone who enjoys it), I can’t think of anything better than a small voice chatting to Gregor Mendel.
Storm was an easy sell because it’s angry and ranty and sweary and has a fun villain. Encode is pure good news, and that’s always extremely difficult to get right without sounding cheesy or like propaganda. As I understand it, the Encode data really may mean unlocking knowledge and eventually cures for certain diseases, but that’s not what the results released last week are. The results are about saying “hey, here’s this huge body of data that anyone can access and help advance humanity”. If that idea isn’t best represented as a giant robot with a lab in its belly and a sexy voiceover by Tim Minchin, I don’t know what is. Hope you enjoy it!
Ooh! Almost forgot: “Both naughty and excellent” was Tim’s line. He also threw in “hi big boy” to the robot but we decided, funny though it is, it might not quite be appropriate. :D
The record-breaking production of Matilda The Musical, which has been playing to packed and excited houses at London’s Cambridge Theatre, is now booking through until the 22nd December 2013!
Tomorrow, 13th September 2012, is Roald Dahl Day – on what would have been the great storyteller’s birthday. To mark the occasion 400,000 tickets will go on sale at 11am.
You can snap up these tickets, from 11am tomorrow, by phoning the Cambridge Theatre Box Office: 0844 412 4652 or the RSC Ticket Hotline: 0844 800 1110 or to book online visit: www.matildathemusical.com.
£5 day seats are available as part of the RSC’s 16-25 ticket scheme and over 100 seats are available at £25 or less for every performance.
Of course you’ll know by now that Tim wrote the music and lyrics, but if you want to catch up with the story so far of Matilda The Musical, look at photos, videos, and some of the amazing reviews and awards the production has won so far, then check out the Matilda page.
Guinness World Records, accepted as the global authority on record-breaking achievement, today announced the theatre additions to 57th edition of the world’s best-selling copyright book, Guinness World Records 2013.
Back in April, having received the maximum possible ten nominations, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda The Musical, skipped away with SEVEN 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards! This amazing achievement is a record haul for a single show and secured the Guinness World Record for Most Laurence Olivier award wins. This sweeps the title from the 1980 production of Nicholas Nickleby, also a Royal Shakespeare Company production, which had held the record, with six Olivier awards, for more than 20 years.
The seven Oliviers won by Matilda The Musical included Best New Musical with Matthew Warchus winning Best Director. Rob Howells claimed Best Set Design, Simon Baker Best Sound Design and Peter Darling Best Theatre Choreographer. Members of the cast triumphed too with Best Actor in a Musical for Bertie Carvel, as Miss Trunchbull, and Best Actress in a Musical was shared by the four Matildas: Cleo Demetriou, Kerry Ingram, Sophia Kiely and Eleanor Worthington-Cox, who at ten years of age, is the youngest ever winner of an Olivier Award
The inclusion of Matilda The Musical in the 2013 edition coincides with Roald Dahl Day on 13th September 2012.
Guinness World Records 2013 book - Matilda The Musical - Most Laurence Olivier award wins
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!
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!
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