The run closed September 17, 2017
- Opened
- April 17, 2017
- Closed
- September 17, 2017
- Performances
- 176
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- August Wilson Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 111th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Groundhog Day 2 more that season
| 2016 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2024 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it15 named
Kevin Bernard
Gerard Canonico
Tari Kelly
Josh Lamon
Sean Montgomery
John Sanders
Travis Waldschmidt
8 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters19 roles recorded
Barrett Doss Rita Hanson
Vishal Vaidya Larry
John Sanders Ned Ryerson
Rebecca Faulkenberry Nancy
Heather Ayers Mrs. Lancaster
Gerard Canonico Fred
Katy Geraghty Debbie
Jenna Rubaii Joelle
Raymond J. Lee Ralph
Andrew Call Gus
Rheaume Crenshaw Doris
Josh Lamon Buster
Sean Montgomery Sheriff
Joseph Medeiros Deputy
Travis Waldschmidt Jeff
William Parry Jenson
Michael Fatica Chubby Man
Tari Kelly Piano Teacher
Taylor Iman Jones Lady Storm Chaser
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Matthew Warchus
- Choreographer
- Peter Darling
- Orchestrations
- Christopher Nightingale
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 1 from 7 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Groundhog Day is a musical with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and a book by Danny Rubin. It is based on the 1993 film of the same name, directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis and Rubin. It tells the story of Phil Connors, an arrogant Pittsburgh TV weatherman who, during an assignment covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, finds himself in a time loop, repeating the same day again and again. The musical made its world premiere at The Old Vic in London in summer 2016 and was nominated for eight Laurence Olivier Awards in 2017, winning for Best New Musical and Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Andy Karl; it later opened on Broadway in 2017, a…
- 45 years later Nat ‘King’ Cole’s swingin’ recording was chosen to close the Bill Murray film hit Groundhog Day , not just because the song broadly suited the scenario but also as a sly joke: Brigadoon was about a village which appears out of the Scotch mist for one day every hundred years; Groundhog Day is about a man… Broadway Babies Say Goodnight Musicals Then and Now Mark Steyn, p. 119
- Katy Geraghty, an ensemble member in Groundhog Day on Broadway and Tracy in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2019 production of Hairspray, writes, “Don…t forget that typecasting can also be your friend and the reason you have a job.” Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 123
- The majority of the big adaptations have been from nonmusical films from the eighties (Xanadu, The Witches of Eastwick, Hairspray, Big), the nineties (Pretty Woman, Groundhog Day, The Full Monty), and most of all the current century (Billy Elliot, Legally Blonde, Shrek, Bend It Like Beckham, Calendar Girls, Kinky Boots… The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 463
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Groundhog Day at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.