Short Biography
Comedy rock super star, Tim Minchin is back on the road with his biggest live show ever. This show includes brand new songs as well as those much loved Minchin classics, but this time, as you've never heard them before - with a 55-piece orchestra!
As well as performing to sell-out crowds around the world, Tim is currently writing music and lyrics for RSC's new musical version of Roald Dahl's Matilda and his radio sitcom ‘Strings' was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May this year.
PRAISE FOR TIM MINCHIN:
"Guaranteed to bring the house down." (The Metro)
"Cleverly stupid musical comedy" (Evening Standard)
"The best musical comedian since Bill Bailey" (The...
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Short Biography
Comedy rock super star, Tim Minchin is back on the road with his biggest live show ever. This show includes brand new songs as well as those much loved Minchin classics, but this time, as you've never heard them before - with a 55-piece orchestra!
As well as performing to sell-out crowds around the world, Tim is currently writing music and lyrics for RSC's new musical version of Roald Dahl's Matilda and his radio sitcom ‘Strings' was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May this year.
PRAISE FOR TIM MINCHIN:
"Guaranteed to bring the house down." (The Metro)
"Cleverly stupid musical comedy" (Evening Standard)
"The best musical comedian since Bill Bailey" (The Times).
"One of our all time favourite comics. This remarkable Aussie is a musical genius and quite unlike anyone else out there. Just go and see him" (Time Out)
AWARDS:
Winner: Perrier Award for Best Newcomer, Edinburgh 2005
Winner: Festival Director's Award, Melbourne 2005
Winner: Best Alternative Comedian, US Comedy Arts Festival 2007
In London, they reckon he's the "Next big thing in musical comedy" (Time Out) and "The best musical comedian since Bill Bailey" (The Times), in Melbourne, they say he's "Witty, smart and unabashedly offensive" (The Age), in New York, they call him "Dazzlingly daffy... so refreshing" (NY Times), in Scotland, they say he's "An extraordinary performer". (The Scotsman) and in Norway, they say "Tim Minchin er noe av det morsomste jeg har sett noen gang." (Stavanger)
Direct from another total sell-out national tour, Tim adds yet another London date, this time at the Roundhouse... featuring a hefty dollop of fresh material and a spoonful of the classics combined in a manner specifically designed to make you want to go to the lavatory.
Winner: Perrier Award for Best Newcomer, Edinburgh 2005
Winner: Festival Director's Award, Melbourne 2005
Winner: Best Alternative Comedian, US Comedy Arts Festival 2007
In-depth Biography
Tim Minchin's initial aspirations leaned more toward music and acting than comedy. In his hometown of Perth he completed an Advanced Diploma in Contemporary Music as well as recording an album called Sit with his first band, Timmy the Dog, before moving to Melbourne. In Melbourne he joined a covers band as a keyboardist, acted in the theater, and -- on the side -- performed his own cabaret show for a year and a half. His solo shows contained a fair number of humorous songs simply because he was unable to stay serious while writing them. The crowds these shows attracted were often very small and he couldn't get any journalists interested in covering them. Eventually he decided to take all of the funny songs and put together a musical comedy show in an attempt to get it out of his system so that he could concentrate on serious music, performing Dark Side as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2005. He even created a new persona for the show, with dark eyeliner, no shoes, a long coat, and chemically straightened hair, giving him license to act like the rock star he now resembled while also satirizing his own rock star ambitions -- and by extension the manufactured rock star image in general.
Dark Side won the Festival Director's Award and he was asked to bring the show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it was a surprise success, winning Minchin a Perrier Comedy Award in the Best Newcomer category. A Dark Side album was released that year and he relocated to England with his wife to pursue comedy more professionally, as it had suddenly become far more profitable than any of his other aspirations. This sudden rise to fame was documented by his friend Rhian Skirving in her movie Rock n Roll Nerd (with a score by Jackson Jackson), and in return Minchin provided music for another of her documentaries, The Kindness of Strangers. Minchin's next shows, So Rock and Ready for This?, were even more successful. Both were turned into albums, although there was some controversy over So Rock's use of the N-word in a joke about racism, which he apologetically removed from his live show after realizing the offense it had unintentionally caused. Now it was acting and serious music that he dabbled in on the side, appearing in the Australian movie Two Fists, One Heart and composing music for theater, in between his television and radio appearances as a musical comedian. ~ Jody Macgregor, Rovi
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