December 2022

Tim’s critically acclaimed, record breaking, sell-out show BACK is available to watch at home, just in time for Christmas viewing and gifting!

Filmed live at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, with Tim’s 8-piece band, BACK is a comedic and musical extravaganza.

You can now download or rent BACK from a wide variety of platforms in the UK, Éire and Australia, so check your favourite digital retailer. It’ll be released in the US on the 3rd January and in New Zealand on the 1st February.

Rent or download here: TimMinchinBACK
Platforms are listed below the trailer.

BACK is available on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK only. You can order on Amazon here or HMV here.

“Spectacular”
The Times

“Roof-raising return”
The Sunday Telegraph

UK digital platforms:
Amazon
BT
Google
iTunes
Microsoft/XBOX
Rakuten
Shift72
Sky UK
Virgin

Australian digital platforms:
Amazon
Google
YouTube
Apple TV
Microsoft
Fetch

US digital platforms:
To be added as soon as they are confirmed.
UPDATE: 2nd Jan ’23 – Unfortunately we are still waiting for this information. The link above should be updated for those in the US but in the meantime please check your usual digital platforms.

New Zealand digital platforms:
Apple
Google Ireland Limited
Microsoft
Shift72

Groundhog Day the critically acclaimed hit musical is making its long clamoured for return to London’s Old Vic theatre next year.

The show will run from May 20th to August 12th* 2023, with a press night on June 8th. There will be an audio described performance on July 7th and a captioned show on July 20th.

Update: Extended to run until August 19th 2023.

Tickets 

Directed by Matthew Warchus, artistic director of the Old Vic, with the book by Danny Rubin, and music and lyrics by Tim.

The original London production was nominated for eight Olivier Awards, winning Best New Musical and Best Actor in a Leading Role in Musical for Andy Karl who will be reprising his role as Phil Connors, the cynical Pittsburgh TV weatherman.
Further casting is still to be announced.

Tim: “Creating this musical was hugely challenging and enormously fun. Working with the wondrous Danny Rubin and the brilliant Matthew Warchus, alongside Chris Nightingale – music supervisor and orchestrator extraordinaire – we wrestled this iconic existential comedy drama into a completely new work; something that not only found critical acclaim, but also seemed to affect its audiences in a way I’ve not witnessed. It was dense with laughs, crowded with big ideas, wildly ambitious and profoundly emotional. Seeing it come back to The Old Vic, perhaps my favourite theatre on the planet, is a huge thrill.”

Matthew Warchus: “Groundhog Day is one of my all-time favourite films and making the musical stage adaptation with Danny Rubin and Tim Minchin was one of the happiest creative experiences of my life. With echoes of classics such as The Music Man and It’s A Wonderful Life, the Groundhog Day film manages to be both a great screwball comedy-romance and also a profound life-lesson combined… adding up to, in my view, the perfect entertainment. Our musical adaptation aims to build on those dual attributes and unlock – in comic, theatrical form – a potent and uplifting message for us all: ‘The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in having new eyes’ (Marcel Proust).”

The official Tim Minchin Australasia store is having a Christmas/End of Year Merch’ Sale!

You’ll find all sale items here or you can browse the full collection here.

Order by the 12th December within Australia for a pre-Christmas delivery, with the exception of WA and NT which would need orders by the 7th December.

International orders will be delivered as quickly as possible, but they may not arrive until after Christmas at this stage.

Some (hopefully) helpful details for International shipping

International postage & packing on deliveries up to 500g is:
NZ – AUD 19
USA – AUD 26.90
ROW – AUD 26.90

International postage & packing on deliveries 500g – 3kg is:
NZ – AUD 25
USA – AUD 36
ROW – AUD 40

Product weights:
T- Shirts 200g
Totes 200g
Mugs 400g
Hoods 600g
Vinyl 600g

Every year, all proceeds from the sale of (either version of) Tim’s sentimental Christmas song White Wine In The Sun during the months of November, December and January, go to an organisation which supports children and adults on the autism spectrum. Once again, that will be Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect).

If you already have the song, you might like to gift it via iTunes or donate directly here.

There are two versions; the 2009 solo version and the 2012 studio version, with strings, french horn and more.

Here are a few more places you can download the 2012 single internationally: iTunes, Amazon (UK), Amazon (US) .

This new video is the latest version of the song, from Tim’s soon to be released special, BACK, which was filmed at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in 2021:

There’s a YouTube Playlist here with two other versions from 2009 and 2017.