Groundhog Day review: a simply sublime return to The Old Vic

‘Marvellous’ adaptation of the 1993 film manages to be both ‘playful and profound’

Groundhog Day is showing until 19 August 
Groundhog Day is showing until 19 August 
(Image credit: oldvictheatre.com)

Stephen Sondheim once thought about turning the 1993 film “Groundhog Day” into a stage musical. He gave up on the idea, saying: “It cannot be improved. It’s perfect the way it is.” And he may have been right about that, said Clive Davis in The Times – but this “glorious collaboration” between Danny Rubin, who co-wrote the film, and Tim Minchin (the composer-lyricist responsible for the global smash-hit stage musical “Matilda”) “comes as close as you could possibly imagine to reproducing the magic of the original”.

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