Groundhog Day the Musical - Old Vic

GD is only on for 9 weeks with 5 of those weeks as previews (though conveniently NOT at preview prices).

It almost seems like cheating. What if the national had 5 weeks of previews and just a couple of proper. They could really iron out everything and always get great reviews which means the possibility of transferring.

And I appreciate that big west end musicals may get as long as 5 weeks previews (not often thou) but this isn't even staying in London!

Guess the Old Vic run is a kind of preview/out of town tryout for Broadway...

Yeah, exactly!

Apologies if this was asked pages back when it actually happened but what are the implications of Scott Rudin pulling out? So it seems like there were 4 co-producers (The OV, Andre Ptaszynski also in London, and Scott Rudin and Lia Vollack in the US), who surely all have money invested in the show for some sort of option to produce the commercial transfers of it if it happens. When Scott pulls out, does he take his money with him? Or does he simply give up his right to the transfer option - neither seems to make any sense. I can't imagine a co-producing contract would allow you to pull your money whenever you like as that could totally derail the show, but equally if his money is still in it, why wouldn't he just wait and see what happens rather than publicly disowning the project before it's been shown to an audience and critics?

And does the existing co-producing agreement preclude someone like Sonia Friedman or Howard Panter getting in on the action and helping to transfer it straight to the West End or is it still all up for grabs, particularly now the planned Broadway transfer looks less guaranteed without Rudin's input?

£90 for some stalls for a try out is a bit wanky thou. Suppose they gotta pay wages thou init blud

The 'New' Old Vic under Warchus tenure, their mission statement should read: chase the pound note or should it really be the dollar bill?

Tickets came through this morning, so excited! And hoping my view won't be TOO bad considering they are "side view with rail and pillar".

They're on sale at the theatre too. £4 if I remember correctly.

Some £30 tickets for tomorrow, Saturday matinee too.

There were a lot of people with programme vouchers on my visit to the Old Vic so I imagine ordering the programme online in advance you just get a voucher with your tickets to exchange for one at the theatre. There's no electronic version/PDF to download.

There's also some £12 restricted view Upper Circle seats for Press Night on Tues 16th. I'd go for them if the view was just a tiny bit better, and having seen it from the stalls already, I think that's where I'd prefer to see the show from. What do we think the likelihood of the £30 on-the-day reductions carrying on after press night? I am pretty set on wanting to make a return trip but wouldn't mind leaving it a bit longer as I only saw it a week or so ago. Would happily pay £30 again but any more than that is slightly out of my budget!