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Post by Mark on May 16, 2017 9:10:47 GMT
I saw the matinee yesterday (Sunday) and it looked to be sold out. It wasn't on TKTS when I checked at 11am. Glad it has picked up. One of the show cast was tweeting about it being 'sold out sunday'! I'm glad for the show. (Ok, maybe a little bit selfishly annoyed that I'll probably now have to get up early and dayseat for a reasonably priced ticket in August instead of swinging by TKTS.) It was quite an easy rush. I got there at 10:30 (box office opened at 12) and I was 5th in line. |
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Post by kathryn on May 16, 2017 9:26:48 GMT
One of the show cast was tweeting about it being 'sold out sunday'! I'm glad for the show. (Ok, maybe a little bit selfishly annoyed that I'll probably now have to get up early and dayseat for a reasonably priced ticket in August instead of swinging by TKTS.) It was quite an easy rush. I got there at 10:30 (box office opened at 12) and I was 5th in line. Thanks. Of course, it might be busier in August! |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 22:53:56 GMT
Holy c**p... Phil Connors (II) and Frank Reynolds in the same video. Sorry but this is a BIG deal right now, the Always Sunny fan in me is freaking out.
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Post by stuartmcd on May 18, 2017 23:20:51 GMT
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Post by anthony40 on May 19, 2017 17:20:15 GMT
My Cast CD arrived today. Love the energy of it. Not too surprised the show was coolly received on Broadway, though. It's quite dense with the lyrics and I don't think attuned so much to the American ear with its word and sentence structure. Anyhow, brings back good memories. Mine too arrived today. Straight onto the i-Pod |
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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2017 20:06:53 GMT
My Cast CD arrived today. Love the energy of it. Not too surprised the show was coolly received on Broadway, though. It's quite dense with the lyrics and I don't think attuned so much to the American ear with its word and sentence structure. Anyhow, brings back good memories. I'd forgotten the CD was released in May. Where did you order it from? I've just looked on Amazon & it says 1-4 weeks so I'm wondering if there's anywhere faster. |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 20:47:36 GMT
Can we really say Americans don't have an ear for dense Broadway lyrics when they just made Hamilton the phenomenon that it is?
I wouldn't say the show was coolly received, I'd say it was pretty accurately received. Mixed-to-positive reviews, multiple Tony nominations including Best Musical and a steadily increasing box office. It just had little chance of standing out when the quality of their musicals is higher than ours, particularly this year.
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Post by stuartmcd on May 20, 2017 12:10:44 GMT
I remember the review from vulture.com was rather negative about the score because it didn't rhyme properly.
"My idea of purgatory is a show that repeatedly spits terrible rhymes at you. I mean rhymes like erection/reception, ideas/rears, clock/cop, vistas/spinsters, gluten/solution, dresses/precious, collateral/battle, and water/shorter, to name just a few that tortured my ears in songs by Tim Minchin for the new musical Groundhog Day."
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2017 12:56:55 GMT
I remember the review from vulture.com was rather negative about the score because it didn't rhyme properly. "My idea of purgatory is a show that repeatedly spits terrible rhymes at you. I mean rhymes like erection/reception, ideas/rears, clock/cop, vistas/spinsters, gluten/solution, dresses/precious, collateral/battle, and water/shorter, to name just a few that tortured my ears in songs by Tim Minchin for the new musical Groundhog Day." They are people painting musical theatre into an artistic cul de sac, there never was an 'agreement' that only perfect rhymes, as opposed to general rhymes, are acceptable. Poetry has long got past any insistence on the former and such a fundamentalist view is unsustainable, they are manning barricades that have already been overrun. You also have a good degree of overlap of those who insist on perfect rhymes and those who moan and whinge about non American musicals and directors destroying the 'purity' of their ideal (or those Americans not from that narrow tradition). It's a proxy argument for cultural purity and I could never get on board with that. |
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Post by jess173 on May 20, 2017 14:32:35 GMT
I'd forgotten the CD was released in May. Where did you order it from? I've just looked on Amazon & it says 1-4 weeks so I'm wondering if there's anywhere faster. I ordered mine last week on amazon. It said 2-4 weeks for delivery but I didn't mind as it is up on Apple Music and I've been listening to it on there since I saw the show. However last night I got an email that the cd will be delivered next Tuesday. So just go for it.  |
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Post by kathryn on May 20, 2017 23:17:59 GMT
I remember the review from vulture.com was rather negative about the score because it didn't rhyme properly. "My idea of purgatory is a show that repeatedly spits terrible rhymes at you. I mean rhymes like erection/reception, ideas/rears, clock/cop, vistas/spinsters, gluten/solution, dresses/precious, collateral/battle, and water/shorter, to name just a few that tortured my ears in songs by Tim Minchin for the new musical Groundhog Day." I took it that critic is totally unfamiliar with the tradition of comic song - which Minchin, of course, comes from - with it's unexpected/silly half-rhymes and almost-rhymes. Maybe it is more of a British/Australian thing? But then the Pythons were popular across the pond and then there's Weird Al Yankovitch... In any case, you'd think a professional critic observing a lyricist had done something consistently throughout would twig that he is using a Technique, and not failing at doing something else. |
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Post by daniel on May 27, 2017 7:04:35 GMT
Seeing this in NYC on Wednesday - excited!
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Post by jess173 on May 28, 2017 15:54:53 GMT
Seeing this in NYC on Wednesday - excited! Lucky you! Have fun! Could you check if they have a souvenir brochure yet, please? They didn't have one when I saw it 3 weeks ago and I'm waiting for one to pop up on the playbillstore website but nothing has happened so far. |
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Post by daniel on May 28, 2017 16:02:20 GMT
Seeing this in NYC on Wednesday - excited! Lucky you! Have fun! Could you check if they have a souvenir brochure yet, please? They didn't have one when I saw it 3 weeks ago and I'm waiting for one to pop up on the playbillstore website but nothing has happened so far. Yes of course! If they have one I'm happy to bring back to the UK for you, if you're willing to do PayPal + postage  |
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Post by jess173 on May 28, 2017 16:05:52 GMT
That would be awesome, thanks so much! Would it be too much to ask to post it to Germany? I'm of course happy to cover all expenses.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2017 18:40:04 GMT
Some nice new videos here for the Tonys
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Post by daniel on May 29, 2017 3:40:16 GMT
That would be awesome, thanks so much! Would it be too much to ask to post it to Germany? I'm of course happy to cover all expenses. Not at all! I'll drop you a PM on Wednesday when I'm there and have found out if there's brochures |
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Post by jess173 on May 29, 2017 5:01:23 GMT
Yay, thanks! Have fun in New York and enjoy the show. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 19:47:34 GMT
For those interested, Tim Minchin did a 47 minute Facebook live on the GhD Broadway page talking which includes some really interesting analysis of the music and themes and stuff. www.facebook.com/GroundhogDayMusical/videos/414335872299361/Also at one point a commenter asked about a part in the show... {Spoiler - click to view}
*...AND POTENTIALLY TRIGGER WARNING HERE - SORRY!....*
...that Phil has new "death" during 'Hope' on Broadway that wasn't in the London production. Does anyone know what it is?
To be honest, I've pretty much started to forget them from the Old Vic, but from what I can remember, he dropped the toaster into the bath (behind shower curtain), stole the groundhog suit head then jumped off a cliff or something(??) then he was lifted on wires while some of the ensemble came on in the same pyjamas and did a little montagey thing of the suicides on the revolve (i.e. rope, cutting etc.) |
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Post by 49thand8th on May 30, 2017 19:55:16 GMT
I don't remember seeing him being lifted on wires on Broadway at all, but I saw the show after Andy's injury. The pajamas death thing definitely happened, though.
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Post by stuartmcd on May 30, 2017 19:58:47 GMT
I have no idea how to do spoilers so SPOLIERS!!!!
They have added a sequence where he climbs a ladder and dissapears at the top of the stage. And then seemingly falls off the ladder but magically wakes up back in the bed
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Post by jess173 on May 30, 2017 20:21:31 GMT
Ok.. Spoilers as well... He definitely climbs up a ladder and then falls back to the stage. I thought it was a metaphor for him jumping off a high building or something. The scene was in it when I saw it, even with Andys knee brace. But it's not him climbing that ladder anyways so the brace isn't a problem there. I was extremely impressed with Andy. He barely had a limp and he was running around all the time. I don't know how much they slowed it down for him to manage with the brace but it didn't look much. He did a really good job! |
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Post by ali973 on May 31, 2017 3:27:58 GMT
Just saw it tonight, after having seen it in London 2x. It's mainly the same show. I could swear that the staging of the finale of Act I is slightly different- but what I am certain is that the staging of If I Had My Time Again is different. They sort of go through town and then do a toy car ride. Constantine Maroulis (Rock of Ages, Jekyll & Hyde) was in the audience (and he looks so much better in real life). When Andy first appeared he yelled out "yeah, buddy!!!" and started a small ovation.
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Post by kathryn on May 31, 2017 19:09:46 GMT
This is fabulously geeky! I'm so glad he talked about the musical circles going on - I was sure that something like that was happening in the music after I first saw it! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 19:18:51 GMT
This is fabulously geeky! I'm so glad he talked about the musical circles going on - I was sure that something like that was happening in the music after I first saw it! At first seeing it in The Old Vic, I wasn't sold on the show. Upon recent re-listening to the soundtrack and watching TM's breakdown of some of the musical analysis its started to grow on me as I appreciate the genius of it. |
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