TIM MINCHIN, award-winning comedian, actor and composer, will return to the stage for his first UK tour dates since 2011. The UK premiere of BACK will commence in Ipswich on 15 October 2019 and comes to Edinburgh Playhouse on Tuesday 19 November 2019.
The full tour includes performances in Oxford, Sheffield, Nottingham, Manchester, Plymouth, Cardiff, Portsmouth, London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Brighton and Southend.
BACK is billed as Old Songs, New Songs, F*** You Songs, hinting at a set list of material from all corners of Minchin’s eclectic – and often iconoclastic – repertoire.
It will be the long-awaited follow up to his sold-out national arena tour of Tim Minchin and his Orchestra in 2010-2011.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public through Ticketmaster and venue box offices on Thursday 6 September at 10am GMT.
Fans will be given priority access to tickets via Ticketmaster Verified FanTM registration. Registration to become a Ticketmaster Verified FanTM will be open until 11:59pm, Sunday 2nd September. Successful fans will receive a unique code for Ticketmaster Verified FanTM pre-sale which will open at 10am Wednesday 5 September for 24 hours.
The music virtuoso also announced that profit from a number of top price seats will be donated to a UK charity – details of which will be announced through his website soon.
Minchin has been celebrated globally for writing the music and lyrics for Matilda the Musical, which has gone on to become one of the most acclaimed musicals of the last 20 years, winning a record seven Olivier Awards, 13 Helpmann Awards and five Tony Awards. It continues to run in the West End and has already played in over 50 cities worldwide. He also wrote music and lyrics for the musical adaption of Groundhog Day, which after an acclaimed limited run at The Old Vic in London in 2016, debuted on Broadway in April 2017 and won the Olivier Award for Best Musical in 2017.
Meanwhile, Minchin has ruffled feathers in Australia with his ARIA-nominated charity single, Come Home Cardinal Pell and the Marriage Equality parody, I Still Call Australia Homophobic. His UWA Graduation speech has been watched by tens of millions of people worldwide.
BACK will mark Minchin’s return to the stage, following several film and TV appearances which earned him a handful of acting accolades, including the Qantas Orry-Kelly Award at the 2017 Australians in Film Awards and a 2016 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Supporting Actor for The Secret River.
He most recently starred in the ABC 2018 comedy series Squinters and will appear as Friar Tuck in the upcoming Hollywood release Robin Hood in cinemas November 2018. In 2019 he will also star in UPRIGHT, a new eight-part drama series, which he will co-write with The Chaser’s Chris Taylor, actor-writers Leon Ford and Kate Mulvaney, and coproduce with Lingo Pictures for Foxtel and Sky UK.
“He’s several entertainers in one: a brilliant pianist, an affectless standup comic, a lyricist of intoxicating flair, and – as if that weren’t enough – a man with important, inspiring things to say about the world […] This is comedy that sets itself, and meets, an exhilaratingly high standard.” The Guardian
“A thing of jaw-dropping wonder.” The Daily Telegraph
“Tim Minchin is a genius, pure and simple. He is to musical comedy what Charles Darwin was to evolution and what Einstein was to physics and moustaches. You’d be hard pushed to find a more sublimely talented comedian.” Time Out
UK TOUR DATES:
15th October 2019 | Ipswich Regent Theatre | apps.ipswich.gov.uk/
19th October 2019 | Oxford New Theatre | atgtickets.com/venues/new-theatre-oxford/
22nd October 2019 | Sheffield City Hall | sheffieldcityhall.sivtickets.com
23rd October 2019 | Nottingham Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall | trch.co.uk/
26th October 2019 | Manchester O2 Apollo | academymusicgroup.com/o2apollomanchester/
29th October 2019 | Cardiff St David’s Hall | stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk/
1st November 2019 | Liverpool Empire | atgtickets.com/venues/liverpool-empire/
2nd November 2019 | Portsmouth Guildhall | portsmouthguildhall.org.uk/
5th November 2019 | Plymouth Pavilions | plymouthpavilions.com
12th November 2019 | Hammersmith Eventim Apollo | eventimapollo.com
15th November 2019 | Birmingham Hippodrome | birminghamhippodrome.com
19th November 2019 | Edinburgh Playhouse | atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse
21st November 2019 | Sage Gateshead | sagegateshead.com
22nd November 2019 | Glasgow Armadillo | sec.co.uk
26th November 2019 | Brighton Dome | brightondome.org
30th November 2019 | Southend Cliffs Pavilion | southendtheatres.org.uk
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