Sometimes You Have To Be A Little Bit Naughty is now available in the UK!
Sometimes You Have To Be A Little Bit Naughty is a mischievous, funny and empowering picture book inspired by Naughty, Tim’s much-loved song from the multi-award-winning Matilda The Musical and beautifully illustrated by Steve Antony
More details here, including a peek inside at some of the pages.
Available in-store and online from the following UK retailers and more:
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.
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).”
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.
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.
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical will be showing in cinemas only in the UK and Ireland from November 25th; you can get tickets here. The film will then debut in select cinemas in Australia from December 8th and the US from December 9th before becoming widely available on Netflix on December 25th. (Netflix UK & Ireland Sunday 25th June 2023).
VINYL UPDATE:(4/03/23)Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical is available – ON VINYL from April 21st. Find it here for pre orders.
UPDATE:(20/02/23) UK and Ireland! Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical is available to Buy or Rent from all the usual digital platforms: Apple TV, Sky Store, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play and more. Now available on Blu-ray (including Sing-Along) and DVD!
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Soundtrack From The Netflix Film) will be released digitally on the 18th November and on CD on the 9th December.
Within the album’s 22 tracks are 12 songs written by Tim for the critically-acclaimed, award-winning West End production, newly-recorded by the film’s extraordinary cast: Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Andrea Riseborough, Stephen Graham, and newcomer Alisha Weir as Matilda. Track 22 is a special new song Tim wrote for the movie: ‘Still Holding My Hand’.
In addition, the soundtrack also includes 10 instrumental score pieces by Christopher Nightingale, music supervisor and orchestrator of the original stage production.
There’s a Songbook too! Available in the UK and Europe now from Musicroom. If you’re in the US and Canada you can preorder from Hal Leonard. They will both ship internationally and the folio will arrive on Australian shores shortly so it’s now available to preorder from Hal Leonard Australia.
The Songbook presents the 12 songs from the hit movie soundtrack, arranged for voice and piano with chord symbols, including ‘Still Holding My Hand’ which you can also acquire as Digital Sheet Music for Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords or for Easy Piano from Sheet Music Direct.
Matilda the Musical Soundtrack Track List
1.Miracle**
2.Naughty**
3.The Acrobat and The Escapologist
4.School Song**
5.The Hammer**
6.Chokey Chant – Hide Me
7.And So The Great Day Arrived
8.The Biggest Burp
9.Bruce**
10.When I Grow Up**
11.The Most Dangerous feat
12.I’m Here**
13.The Smell of Rebellion**
14.The Newt – Stretchy Ears
15.Quiet**
16.Telekinesis
17.My House**
18.The Truth – Chokey Destruction
19.Day of Reckoning
20.Magnus Returns
21.Revolting Children**
22.Still Holding My Hand**
**Denotes album vocal tracks and those included in the Songbook.
Tim: “It’s now fifteen years since Matthew Warchus and Dennis Kelly asked me to help them create Matilda The Musical, and I never dreamed that the songs would still be finding new life now. Matilda The Musical has now been performed all over the world, in different accents, different languages, and by performers of all stripes; each of them bringing to the tale their own style, their own experiences, their own passion. This album is another — very, very exciting — chapter in the Matilda story.”
Christopher Nightingale: “The range and breadth of musical opportunity that this classic story offers up is a gift for any composer. The diversity of the songs is gloriously far-reaching, and my first job in writing the original score was to try and build a framework that might bind things together; find, create and extend common ground. I am incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to write a score that has had such intrinsic value in a movie. Matthew Warchus is innately musical himself, and it’s excellent to work with someone who values and understands the role music plays in a story like this.”
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical is directed by Matthew Warchus and with a screenplay by Dennis Kelly.
Lucky (Tim) and Meg (Milly Alcock) will hit the open road – and river – once again when the misfit duo are unexpectedly reunited four years after their epic adventure crossing the Nullarbor Plain with a cherished piano. This time they trade the desert for the steamy tropics of Far North Queensland on a mission to find Meg’s mum.
Tim: “We worked so hard on this second season, having to overcome many hurdles on the way. The making of art imitating art, I guess. Things are different in Meg and Lucky’s world, and shit gets even weirder than in season 1, but hopefully it will connect with people in the same way. Ep 8 is another tear-jerker, if jerking tears is your thing. (It is mine!)”
Both Seasons are already available in:
Australia: FOXTEL and BINGE (from Tuesday November 15th, 2022), UK: Sky Comedy and NOW TV (from Tuesday November 22nd, 2022) Now available on DVD in the UK too. Canada: Super Channel Fuse (from Sunday December 18th, 2022) and now on CBC GEM too.
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video channels and Apple TV+. Flanders, Belgium: Streamz (from Wednesday 18th January, 2023) USA:Sundance Now (from Thursday 26th January,2023) New Zealand:TVNZ(from Tuesday February 28th, 2023) Spain: Filmin Netherlands: Ziggo
This list is not exhaustive. It’s worth searching for UPRIGHT on streaming services in your country.
UPRIGHT Season 1 – from Amazon, HMV and more.
UPRIGHT Season 2 – from Amazon, HMV and more.
Upright Seasons 1&2 Box Set – from Amazon, HMV and more.
Season Two is directed by Mirrah Foulkes. Tim: “We were so lucky to have the brilliant Mirrah Foulkes steering the metaphorical tinny up the allegorical creek.”
Tim, the Executive Producer, Lead Writer, and star of UPRIGHT has again written some music for the series, alongside another beautiful score by Jackson Milas and Antony Partos. Tim wrote The Aeroplane which was released earlier this month and Spider Girl which he’s been playing at Australian festivals this year for the series.
The official trailer for the new eight-episode season is not yet available globally but you should be able to get a sneak peek at what’s in store for Lucky and Meg here if you’re in Australia and if you’re in the UK and ROW here.
Along with Tim (The Secret River, Californication) and Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon), UPRIGHT features a stellar returning cast including Heather Mitchell (Love Me, Palm Beach), Ella Scott Lynch (Amazing Grace, The Code), Daniel Lapaine (Catastrophe, Five Bedrooms), Daniel Frederiksen (The Dry, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) and Asmara Feik (The True History of the Kelly Gang, The Listies Work for Peanuts). Joining the cast for season two are Australian icon Noni Hazlehurst (June Again, A Place To Call Home), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat, Packed to the Rafters), Hayley McElhinney (Mystery Road: Origin, Doctor Doctor), Darren Gilshenan (How To Stay Married, Stateless), Tom Budge (Gallipoli, Judy & Punch), Anita Hegh (Total Control, Janet King), Travis Cotton (New Gold Mountain, Neighbours) and Nicholas Brown (The Unlisted).
“Australian Story” this week addresses the topic about which I know the most but am least interested: me. It’s also about Sarah, so there’s redemption in that.
Right now, if you click this link or head over to Tim’s YouTube Shorts, you can find out how to win an Apart Together Vinyl Bundle: https://tktrev.com/TimMinchinAeroplane
Here’s the video. He’s wearing a beanie and there are some familiar faces for those of you who caught the BACK tour.
Lyrics below.
Lyrics:
If I had the blueprint or the brain
I would build an aeroplane
I’d fashion wings of balsa wood and glue
And I would fly to you
I’d carve a prop from old recycled would haves
All these relentless could have
These pointless might have beens
Oh the storms that I would gladly battle through
So I could fly to you
Had I the method or the means
I would build a time machine
I’d make it from the scraps you aways find
When someone leaves their broken dreams behind
And I’d fuel it with the beats that my heart misses
When you sign your name with kisses
Made of x’s when you text me
It’s so silly but
Any fuel and any fire will do
I will fly to you
And I’d carve a prop from old recycled would haves
All these relentless could haves
These pointless might have beens
Oh the storms that I would gladly battle through
So I could fly to you
Oh the storms that I would gladly battle through
So I could fly to you
Tim’s critically acclaimed, record breaking, sell-out show BACK will be in UK and Éire cinemas for one night only!
So if you missed the tour or you fancy reliving the spectacle you can catch it on the big screen on Wednesday 23rd November.
Filmed live at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, with Tim’s 8-piece band, BACK is a comedic and musical extravaganza.
Tim: “The “Back” tour spanned 3 years, was seen by 261,000 people, survived 1 pandemic, and almost killed me. I’m completely stoked that people will now be able to spend 2 hours with my massive f*****g head rendered more massive by massive f*****g cinema screens”.
