Groundhog Day the Musical - Old Vic

That's great news.

Any idea which theatre this will be going into? Back to the Old Vic?

Announcement tomorrow

Groundhog It. That 3-way revolve within a revolve was incredible and meant for some ridiculously spectacular scene. I don't recall London having the same issues they had in the US but I guess for it to be able to come back producers needed to be confident it would work.

Great news that an actual confirmation - with dates (and the tease of a tour) is on its way.

I'm very excited too. Saw this on Broadway but was considerably younger then and feel it will really hit different now. I'd be looking at trying to book in for a cheap preview ticket early on. Are these easy to get at the Old Vic? How does it work?

I saw the Old Vic first preview, and cast were putting place name flags (think like the things you see on a golf course) into holes in the revolve as "Phil" walked through - they'd tip sideways, fall over, "Phil" would be stepping over them while trying to sing (Andy Karl rolling his eyes).  That was gone by my second visit - caused an unintentional laugh though.  

Teething issues on a preview performance are kind of to be expected and this sounds forgivable.

That opening scene where the mini News Van starts up stage and "drives" in a straight line down stage without actually moving thanks to the multiple revolves, mindbogglingly technically brilliant and set the the tone. The staging and movement for Hope will have to be choreographed very differently to be as impressive as it was using the multi-revolve.

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I managed them fine when I did it for Jitney and A Number. The 47th was certainly busier.

They had multiple revolves in the original Old Vic production and after pushing the first preview by a few days had no issues with the revolves for the remainder of the run. The stage for the Broadway transfer was different configurations, so as I remember it things had to be resized, but it was always the same number of revolving pieces. That production was notably riddled with stage issues, but beyond any reassuring investors may need I can’t see why they’d need to remove the revolves now it’s going back into its original theatre. That just seems like they’d be creating more work for themselves, given it all worked perfectly here the first time.

And if he can't, who?

That’s true!

I don’t know MrB’s sources, but from what I’ve heard the plan after this revival is to take it to Australia before it goes anywhere else as TM is quite keen to bring his second musical “home”. I’d love it to tour here though as it certainly deserves more of a life than it’s had so far.