Sunday, March 31, 2013

Tim Minchin: the man who waltzed Matilda | Observer profile

His music for the stage version of Roald Dahl's Matilda became the only time in a stand-up struggling leftfield Andrew Lloyd Webber. Next month, the production moved to Broadway. But how are you going to New York to take the anarchic Australian? But a reminder, Tim Minchin, 37, may have lost the opportunity of a lifetime. Back in 2008. The Australian was to perform a full house at London's Bloomsbury Theatre. Using eye makeup, red hair stood on tiptoe chaotic, funny and sang ballads for piano reflection that had been charming comedy fans across the country. Unknown to the interpreter, who was the study that evening. Matthew Warchus, the director who put on the adaptations of West End

St.

and Lord of the Rings

, was hired by the CBC to direct a stage version of Roald Dahl Mathilde . (The production opened on Broadway in April, transfer to New York after the successful launch of monstrous Stratford and the West End.) Warchus drove someone to write songs.

"A great musician and a great composer," was the verdict set Warchus Minchin, with their anarchist songs, highlighted on topics as diverse as religious complacency and dancing bears, superstition and inflatable dolls sex. arcs occur only late Warchus not feel heard subtlety of emotions that would be needed to capture the essence of nodes and sentimental book Dahl children. Minchin is then returned to the stage for an encore, in which he sang a song called relatively simple white wine in the sun. We explored the strange attraction, elementary to have parents and siblings who had 10,000 miles in Oz. Warchus recalled: "The whole public wept. "

"Tell me what I need to do to convince you that I'm your man," said Mangin, when he made his approach Warchus shortly. Finally Minchin has written a couple dozen songs

Mathilde , working with an arranger, 16 completed the first production in the theater Patio Stratford in December 2010. "[It is] not edgy, avant-garde, "Minchin said later of his work on the production, with music supervisor Christopher Nightingale and playwright Dennis Kelly," but emotionally, hits the mark. " Comments were uniform - "Crush", "jewel", "victory" - and remember strong Minchin songs. In one year,

Mathilde

had moved to the West End and then, just before he launches a record seven Olivier Awards, Broadway transfer has been confirmed. The

New York Times score Minchin has called "one of the most original of years."

During this colossal success, could have wallowed Minchin, its walls covered with photocopies of Telegraph opinion, for example, called the thing exciting to happen to musical theater since Lloyd Webber, or otherwise spent on the calculation and recalculation of millions that can be made once an early musical tourable see the world. Although

Mathilde

prospered, however, continued to travel the circuit of musical.

the evening, after open Minchin Matilda was a concert in Brighton, where he began a tour in the United Kingdom. Performing songs he calls "epic stupidity of Wagner" and accompanied by an orchestra of 55 musicians, Mangin was doing a show for 20,000 at London's O2. Opening verse of the opening number of the night was typical: a rational if the truth a little hard made acceptable by the attractive piano. "Nothing ruins comedy like arenas," Blood ", but their pleasure is less important than my ego is." Like Minchin times: "This is the power of music can say horrible things while on the pill."

began to gain weight, and it began to look like a loss chubby, scruffy Damian Lewis, dramatic weight in 2012 was undoubtedly the outward sign of a career in sudden new directions. In the spring of the same year, was signed by David Duchovny drama

Californication

(Minchin recently aired episodes in the United States) and joined the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar . He also rejected a proposal to Pepsi, he wanted to see on the back drink. "Six years ago," says Minchin

New Yorker , which has developed a flattering five-page profile of him last week: "I could not do one kiss concert. "

six years was an exaggeration - call eight - but certainly Profile-in-the->
New Yorker
rules Mangin was a person while he 30 years. The Australian was actually born in the UK, while his father, a surgeon, was seconded to a hospital in Northampton. In one year, the family moved to Perth, where livestock Minchin sounds good in Australia. Pool Rainbow Coast. Throw a sheep shearing in the garden.


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