![]() “Tomorrow / There will be sun!” goes the line they’re belting out. They’re being taught the musical’s opening number. From inside the rehearsal room, loud enough to boom through a soundproofed door, the new cast of Groundhog Day burst into song. He is confident things will work out better this time. ![]() If you want to go there to make your moolah, then you can’t be surprised if you have a rough ride.”įittingly, given that Groundhog Day is a story about do-overs, Minchin and his collaborators will try to revive their beleaguered musical at the Old Vic in London next month. “Mamma Mia’s one of the highest-selling musicals ever … Broadway is not a measure of what is good, or not to me. “It’s not a meritocracy,” Minchin shrugs. Groundhog Day closed on Broadway in autumn 2017, after 200-odd performances, and has more or less sat in a drawer since. “When you make something so detailed, over so many thousands of hours, something you think is broadly appealing, about how we’re to be as people – and it doesn’t fly? That’s incredibly painful,” Minchin says.ĭressed today in muted colours, his famous untidy reddish hair tied back under a baseball cap, he lists the little catastrophes that hobbled Groundhog Day seven years ago: investors pulling out the choreographer falling ill a feeling of being rushed to New York after a strong London opening, before the show was quite ready. ![]()
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