A compendium of administrative miscellanea dating back to 2003
So yesterday we brought you Tim’s lovely new ‘Lullaby’ performed with part of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, which aired on Ben Elton’s Live from Planet Earth.
Well the next day, Tim performed a cover of the Crowded House classic ‘Better Be Home Soon’, on Adam Hills in Gordon St Tonight on ABC1, so it seems only fair that we share that performance with you too:
Tim’s new single, a studio version of his nerdy pop song ‘The Fence‘, is now on iTunes. It tackles how things are not always as simple as we might first think and is typically clever and catchy. If you are in the UK you can find it here and if you are in Australia go here. However, as it is now available worldwide you could simply search your iTunes Store and don’t forget, if you wish, you can be among the first to review it on there.
This is a unique studio recording with a band, rather than how you might have heard it, or will hear it, with an orchestra. Finally a song short enough for radio play too, so let’s start the ball rolling and request it.
Tim says:
“Aussies, if you want to hear the song on Triple J (and do me a favour), you can request it to be played on Rosie Beaton’s Super Request in the following ways:
online: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/requests/makearequest/
twitter: @triplejsr
call: 1300 0555 36
txt: 1975 7 555 (25¢)
tx”
Radio playfulness.
If you missed Tim performing on Ben Elton’s Live from Planet Earth on Monday you probably fall into one of three categories:
Have no fear though, we can tell you that he performed a rendition of a new song ‘Lullaby’ with part of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (and he didn’t screw up)! We can go a step further than that as well and provide you with the video so you can see and hear it for yourselves! A note though, if you are trying to stay spoiler free for the new show, you’d best not watch this.
And if that hasn’t made you want to buy tickets for the rest of the UK orchestra shows and the few Australian orchestra shows that still have tickets available, then I don’t know what will!
Have you missed seeing Tim on your TV? You’re gonna love this week then!
Tomorrow, Tim will be gracing Ben Elton’s Live from Planet Earth. This will go out on nine at 9:30pm, and as the title suggests, it’ll be broadcast live! The show may not have got off to the best start last week, but surely it’s worth tuning in just to see if Tim slips up or not!
The following day, Wednesday, he’ll be on Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight. You’ll need to tune your tellybox into ABC1 at 8:30pm to see it. He”l be on with the supermodel and actress Megan Gale and the director Peter Weir. Neon Trees will also be performing.
You’ll be watching both shows right? Or at the very least be recording them to watch later, yes? Good.
Tim’s going to Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday 4th June 2011. He’ll be performing at the Wilbur Theatre at 7pm for your pleasure.
Tickets go Onsale to the General Public on Friday, 11th February 2011 at 12 noon EST and are available from Ticketmaster.
Pst! read on…
If you want to take direct action: there’s a PRESALE on right now, via the same link and the password is: WT9.
(Oh and Angry Feeters knew about this even earlier…just saying)
The show will be an exciting blend of brand new songs with a few well loved classics. Tim will be joined on stage by his grand piano, iconic dance moves, wildly teased hair, gently calmed eyebrows, infeasibly skinny jeans, natural aplomb and his enormous…sense of occasion.
How can you resist?
The Chortle Awards were announced last night and Tim won a ‘Best Musical or Variety Act‘ and ‘Best Tour‘ for his orchestra show, to go with the ‘Best Musical or Variety Act’ award that he won last year!
As he’s in Australia at the moment, Tim sent the organisers a nice message, saying: “I wish I could be there and thanks to everybody. I am very pleased, lying here on my bed on the edge of the West Australian desert listening to frogs, to know that I beat the Boy With Tape On His Face and the rest, as they are all incompetent bastards.”
The Boy With Tape On His Face, however, still won ‘Best Breakthrough Act’ while Karen Koran won the ‘Offstage Contribution’ award. A full list of the winners can be found on Chortle.
Thank you to all who voted, now if wouldn’t mind all pitching in a few pence each because I think he’s going to need a bigger mantlepiece…
We can confirm that Tim has been confirmed as appearing at the Sasquatch Festival, at The Gorge Amphitheater in Washington on the 29th May, 2011.
Other acts playing over the four day event include Axis of Awesome, Reggie Watts and some actual rock bands, like The Foo Fighters and Death Cab for Cutie. The full line up can be found at SasquatchFestival.com
Four-day passes are on sale now and day tickets go on sale on Valentine’s Day, you know, in case you want to make an, erm, romantic gift out of it.
Start spreading the news: in 72 hours you’ve managed to buy 600 tickets between you for Tim’s New York show on the 4th May, meaning that the gig is now officially sold out!
If you’ve been putting off buying your ticket for some reason, fear not, as a second date has been added the next day, 5th May, also at the Gramercy Theatre. Tickets can be bought from LiveNation but you’ll obviously need to be quick as the previous lot certainly didn’t last long!
And I guess, as the saying goes, if he can make it there, he can make it anywhere…
Tim will be crossing the Atlantic again in May to perform at the Gramercy Theatre in New York, on Wednesday 4th May 2011, at 7pm.
Tickets go on general sale today, 28th January at 10:00 AM EST and are available from here, priced at $36.25.
The capacity for this venue is just 600 so I’d suggest you get a wriggle on for those tickets so as not to be disappointed.
Matilda, A Musical ends its extremely successful run at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon this weekend, with a final performance on Sunday 30th January, at 3pm.
It looks very hopeful for a London transfer but at the moment there are only numerous rumours. The first place to hear about this will be via the RSC mailing list. You can sign up to that here and of course we will be excitedly announcing any news too.
Earlier this week Matilda was awarded the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical. These awards recognise excellence for theatre throughout the UK and are selected by a group of professional theatre critics. The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical (new or revival) was presented by Matt Wolf, at the Prince of Wales Theatre on Tuesday and was accepted by director Matthew Warchus and some of the children from the cast.
The production was sold out over Christmas and throughout January following the wonderful reviews it received after opening night on December 9th 2010:
The Telegraph *****
“A smash hit… this show will be unstoppable.”
“Director Matthew Warchus, … brings the show to life with a buzzing vitality that proves irresistible…But the biggest laurels should go to Dennis Kelly, whose script has both deepened the emotion of Dahl’s story while adding loads of splendid jokes of his own, and Tim Minchin, the Aussie comedian, who has written the music and lyrics.
The songs fizz with humour and great take-home melodies. Kelly and Minchin suddenly look like the brightest prospects for British musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.”
WhatsOnStage.com *****
“Tim Minchin’s music and lyrics sparkle with wit and energy, demonstrating a touch of genius to rival that of the eponymous Matilda. Complemented by Dennis Kelly’s book, they make up a piece which is by turns riotously funny and gut-wrenchingly poignant …, all brought vividly to life by Matthew Warchus’ masterful direction.”
More reviews here.
