Tim Minchin
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 5, 2008
Closed Apr 12, 2008
Opened Mar 5, 2008
Closed Apr 12, 2008
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Tim Minchin, winner of the 2007 "Best Alternative Comedian" Award at the Aspen Comedy Festival, performs his dark, piano driven, pop-comedic cabaret stylings at the New World Stages.
The Australian-born Minchin launched onto the world comedy scene in 2005 with Darkside, which won the Perrier Comedy Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His second show So Rock, earned both the Most Outstanding Show and the Festival Directors Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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It's hard to take anything that Tim Minchin says at face value. The charmingly idiosyncratic persona that this Australian-born singer/songwriter and comedian projects in his solo show at New World Stages is endearing precisely because you feel for the performer's apparent awkwardness. And yet, it's surely an act, as no one that insecure could present such a delightful evening of off-kilter songs and stories.
Minchin's lyrics may or may not be autobiographical, but they do have a rawness to them that feels like truth even when they're extremely parodic or self-mocking. This is particularly true of "Rock n Roll Nerd," in which he sings, "There's not much depth in what he's singing / He's a v[...]