| GROUNDHOG DAY To Play Final Broadway Performance on Sunday, September 17 | |
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| GROUNDHOG DAY To Play Final Broadway Performance on Sunday, September 17 Today, Tuesday, August 15 at 6:15pm, the producers of the Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical Groundhog Day, which opened on Broadway to critical acclaim this spring, announced that the show will end its run at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street) on Sunday, September 17, following 176 performances and 32 previews. An 18-month National Tour has been scheduled starting next year and details of a London production will be announced soon. The show’s producers said, “It has been a joy to share Groundhog Day over and over again with Broadway audiences. We could not have asked for a more magnificent, devoted company to bring Danny Rubin’s heartfelt words, Tim Minchin’s dynamic score, and Matthew Warchus’s ingenious direction to the August Wilson Theatre stage every night. This Punxsutawney family has been through a lot together and as Groundhog Day heads into its final month of performances in New York, we are so proud to be part of a Golden Age of musicals on Broadway.” Groundhog Day won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical and was nominated for seven Tony Awards including Best Musical. For his outstanding performance as Phil Connors, three-time Tony Award nominee Andy Karl won the 2017 Olivier, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. The critics called Groundhog Day: “A dizzyingly witty new musical. Groundhog Day reimagines a much-loved film about instant karma with such fertile and feverish theatrical imagination that you expect it to implode before your eyes. Mr. Karl is so outrageously inventive in ringing changes on the same old, same old, that you can’t wait for another (almost identical) day to dawn.” – The New York Times “A delirious reinvention with its own defiantly unique personality, a relentless forward-backward spin that leaves you smiling, exhilarated and giddy. Andy Karl gives a musical-comedy performance of the highest caliber, sliding from self-centered insouciance into surprising open-heartedness, displaying a seemingly inexhaustible range of physical expressiveness along the way. The Bottom Line: Worth repeating.” – The Hollywood Reporter “The wonderfully inventive Groundhog Day: The Musical is a giddy highlight of the current Broadway season. It manages to hold onto everything that made Harold Ramis’ movie such a classic.” – Entertainment Weekly Groundhog Day stars Andy Karl as Phil Connors and Barrett Doss as Rita Hanson. They lead an ensemble cast that features Rebecca Faulkenberry, John Sanders, Andrew Call, Raymond J. Lee, Heather Ayers, Kevin Bernard, Gerard Canonico, Rheaume Crenshaw, Michael Fatica, Katy Geraghty, Camden Gonzales, Jordan Grubb, Taylor Iman Jones, Tari Kelly, Josh Lamon, Joseph Medeiros, Sean Montgomery, William Parry, Jenna Rubaii, Vishal Vaidya, Travis Waldschmidt, and Natalie Wisdom. The production’s creative team is director Matthew Warchus (director), Tim Minchin (composer and lyricist), Danny Rubin (book writer), Peter Darling (choreographer), Ellen Kane (co-choreographer), Rob Howell (set and costume designer), Christopher Nightingale (orchestrator and musical supervisor), Hugh Vanstone (lighting designer), Simon Baker (sound designer), Paul Kieve (illusions), Finn Caldwell (additional movement), Andrzej Goulding (video designer), Campbell Young Associates (hair and wig design) and Jim Carnahan (casting). David Holcenberg is the music director. Groundhog Day is produced by Whistle Pig, Columbia Live Stage, and The Dodgers, with Michael Watt. The National Tour of Groundhog Day is being booked by The Booking Group. The 1993 Columbia Pictures film, with a screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, based on a story by Rubin, and directed by Ramis, starred Bill Murray. Now widely regarded as a contemporary classic, Groundhog Day was cited by the Writers Guild of America as one of the 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written and in 2000 was voted by readers of Total Film as one of the ten best comedies of all time. Tickets are on sale at www.ticketmaster.com, by telephone at (800) 745-3000, and at the August Wilson Theatre box office. Ticketholders for dates past September 17 should contact their point of purchase for refunds. |
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