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Tim Minchin

British-Australian musical comedian, actor, and award-winning composer.

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Born in Northampton, England on 7 October 1975 to Australian parents, Timothy David Minchin AM is a musical comedian and actor with both Australian and British citizenship.[1][2] Because he was born in the UK before 1983, Minchin automatically holds British citizenship in addition to his Australian citizenship.[2]

Life and work

A BA in English and theatre was awarded to Minchin by the University of Western Australia in 1996.[3] Minchin considers himself a musician and songwriter first, and characterizes his performances as a "funny cabaret show."[4] At the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Minchin's show Darkside received the first-ever Festival Directors' Award.[5] The Royal Shakespeare Company gave Minchin a commission in 2008 to create the music and lyrics for Matilda the Musical.[6]

Matilda the Musical had its first performances at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, running from 9 November 2010 to 30 January 2011.[6] 20 November 2020 was the release date for Minchin's first studio album, titled Apart Together.[7]

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According to a Guardian article, Minchin, his wife, and their two children relocated permanently from Los Angeles to Sydney in 2018.[8] The Guardian reports that the animated musical Larrikins, which Minchin had moved to LA four years earlier to create, was cancelled in March 2017.[8][9] Minchin informed The Guardian that when the film was cancelled, 120 people were employed on it.[8] Groundhog Day: The Musical had a Broadway run lasting only five months before it closed, as noted by The Guardian.[8]

Critic Charles Spencer is quoted in a BBC News article describing Matilda as "the best new British musical since Billy Elliot."[10] The Heritage Orchestra DVD was released on 14 November, according to the Tim Minchin website announcement.[11] That announcement specifies that the show was filmed at London's Royal Albert Hall.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Tim Minchin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Dr Tim Minchin", TimMinchin.com, 18 September 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Tim Minchin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chain Reaction – Series 8 – 4. Derren Brown talks to Tim Minchin; "I was born in Northampton to Aussie parents. (My poor pommy babies suffered the same fate. Although my da's a surgeon, theirs a pervert.)", 17 March 2010; "Tim Minchin: My life as a dad", The Guardian, 12 November 2011 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Tim Minchin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Tim Minchin Occasional Address and Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters – YouTube", YouTube, 30 September 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Tim Minchin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Maxwell, Tom, "Tim's just funny that way", Edinburgh Evening News, 1 February 2008; Linzy, "Interview One – 11th October 2007 at Fagan's, Sheffield, UK", 15 March 2009 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Tim Minchin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Arthur, Tim, "Tim Minchin: interview", Time Out London, 1 September 2008; Woodhead, "Tim Minchin", The Age, 19 April 2006; Millar, Anna, "Tim Minchin – Looney tunes", The List, 31 July 2008; "Minchin best newcomer", The Age, 29 August 2005; Maxwell, Tom, "Tim's just funny that way", Edinburgh Evening News, 1 February 2008; Platt, "Barry Award nominees announced", The Age, 1 April 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Tim Minchin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Matilda the Musical", Time Out; "Matilda the Musical proves a hit with West End critics", BBC News, 25 November 2011; "A problem Like Matilda" by Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, p. 32, 1 April 2013; "tonyawards.com" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Tim Minchin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Tim Minchin announces special 'Apart Together' album launch stream | NME", NME, 30 October 2020 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Harmon, "'It was unbearable': Tim Minchin on life under Trump and the collapse of his $100m movie", The Guardian, 28 January 2018. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  9. Wikipedia, "Tim Minchin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Busch, ""Larrikins" Movie: Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn Join", 1 June 2016; Harmon, "'It was unbearable': Tim Minchin on life under Trump and the collapse of his $100m movie", The Guardian, 28 January 2018; Harmon, "'It was unbearable': Tim Minchin on life under Trump and the collapse of his $100m movie", The Guardian, 28 January 2018; Harmon, "'It was unbearable': Tim Minchin on life under Trump and the collapse of his $100m movie", The Guardian, 28 January 2018; Harmon, "'It was unbearable': Tim Minchin on life un en.wikipedia.org
  10. "Matilda the Musical proves a hit with West End critics", BBC News, 25 November 2011. facts only, no text reused. bbc.co.uk
  11. "Tim Minchin · A Big, Juicy Tim Minchin and The Heritage Orchestra DVD Announcement!", Tim Minchin. facts only, no text reused. timminchin.com

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