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    LUCKY IN MANY WAYS

    May 16, 2021 5 minutes
    by RUSSELL BAILLIE

    The Zoom camera reveals Tim Minchin working from home at 7.30am his time. With a beanie restraining his hair, he’s in his home studio, where a guitar and digital piano are visible in the background but not much else. All those awards he won for musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day and his many other achievements as a multi-hyphenate entertainer are elsewhere.

    He says there’s a nine-foot grand piano in the front room of his house in the Sydney seaside suburb of Coogee, where he and his family have lived since returning to Australia in 2017 a.er stints in London and Los Angeles. But he doesn’t play the grand much during the day as it tends to echo through the whole place. In his workroom, he can put his headphones on and get on

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