Groundhog Day the Musical - Old Vic

Agreed. It's going to be well into next year before we get a recording. And hopefully by then they'll announce it's return to the west end.

Interesting watching West End Wilma's most recent video and seeing him say that there are murmors of it coming to the West End again, at the earliest, late 2017! Especially as it hasn't been setting Broadway alight quite how expected in terms of box office (note it hasn't officially opened yet though), they may well bring it back to the place where it really was a hit of the season. And if it wins a few Olivier's, that wouldn't hurt too.

Would be fab to get Tim Minchin to do it, now that the composer/actor phenomenon is picking up. It would be a challenge for him, but he's expressed interest in doing it in the past.

The night I saw it at the Old Vic, Andy Karl was singing flat for the majority of the show. It left a really sour taste for me about the show so it wouldn't be a bad thing coming back to the UK with a different leading man for me as I could watch it again with a clean slate.

Fingers crossed!!!!!!

I agree. My first thought was actually, once I read the early 2018 timeline, Piccadilly after Annie closes up in January. And that would be a great theatre for it! Medium sized, not too big/not too small, similar to The Old Vic (Old Vic has 1,067 capacity, Piccadilly has 1,232 capacity). Great location and could have some great visuals outside with the digital screen. It could definitely have a healthy run there I think, especially if it has a run not too far from the Old Vic run as it can be "HIT RETURNS TO THE WEST END" situation and can work some great promo off that!

Even if the Broadway reviews aren't so good, I imagine they would just use the 5* Old Vic reviews like the Broadway production is doing currently to market it featuring the *8 Olivier nominations" line as well and whatever Tony's it gets nominated for.

Or at least they were before previews started, think it's just tweets now. The "so much fun it should be illegal" line from The Times seemed to be the favourite one to use.

For some reason it's not gaining steam on Broadway. It's a very competitive season there, but despite that, I see that all the new competing shows have a) a niche market b) generating a lot of press and coverage (not necessarily reviews, for those that didn't open yet).

Dear Evan Hansen has its whole parent/child audience going on
Comet has the immersive factor and Josh Groban
War Paint has the divas
Anastasia has the mother/daughter thing going on
Come From Away, I don't understand exactly the type of audience that would specifically gravitate to it, but it's doing well
...Groundhog Day has..? I feel that it had the potential to be the answer to this season's Book of Mormon: a musical for non-musical lovers and has a wider cross over appeal, potentially appealing to the bros who aren't into musicals. But I feel that they're not capitalizing on that, or anything really.
...the revivals are also getting a lot of spotlight with Glenn in Sunset and Bette in Dolly.

It's a good show, that's for sure. But I think there are mismatched expectations here. It did so well in London I think due to the lack of original and/or good commercial runs in the London scene. So when we got it, we all freaked out and were overjoyed especially since it landed here before Broadway. The only show that has matched it in London in terms of excitement and managed to be the "it" show of the season has been Dreamgirls so far, and although new to London, is a revival and not exactly "cutting edge" material.

I think this might have worked better as a play. It just doesn't have very memorable music.