GROUNDHOG DAY APPRECIATION THREAD — Page 2

poisonivy2 said: "Malka2 said: "Oh man, I'm gonna start tearing up here.

I saw Groundhog Day for the first time on a very, very personally difficult day during a very difficult time. I chose the show semi-randomly from TKTS two hours before curtain, just looking for a distraction from life really. Instead, I walked out that night with a new perspective on life and my situation and all of the challenges we get and the hopes we have and the frustrating realities we face.

And on top of it all, there was Andy's massive black brace, persevering through injury, and his "champions adjust" mindset, all resilience and faith and grace... I couldn't stage door that night but I came back to the show a week later and asked Andy to write "Champions Adjust" in my playbill. I didn't put it away with the rest of my playbills, I've kept that page folded open on my dresser ever since.

When I start flagging a bit the GHD soundtrack picks me right up - I have so many favorites I can't even list them all, but the lyrics of "Seeing You" - "But I'm here, and I'm fine" - are like a soothing mantra to me, and "I thought the only way to better days was through tomorrow" is a constant gentle reminder to me to stop waiting for a time when life will be easier, and instead live as fully as I can today.

I could go on and on but I'll stop here for now...

...and they say this show was a flop. *shakes head*



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Thanks for sharing. This was really beautiful. I just bought a ticket to the final show. I don't care that it was financially a "flop." I loved it.



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Ivy,



I'm front row for the final show (my daughter can't make it). Come say "hi"

JustAnotherNewYorker said: "poisonivy2 said: "Malka2 said: "Oh man, I'm gonna start tearing up here.

I saw Groundhog Day for the first time on a very, very personally difficult day during a very difficult time. I chose the show semi-randomly from TKTS two hours before curtain, just looking for a distraction from life really. Instead, I walked out that night with a new perspective on life and my situation and all of the challenges we get and the hopes we have and the frustrating realities we face.

And on top of it all, there was Andy's massive black brace, persevering through injury, and his "champions adjust" mindset, all resilience and faith and grace... I couldn't stage door that night but I came back to the show a week later and asked Andy to write "Champions Adjust" in my playbill. I didn't put it away with the rest of my playbills, I've kept that page folded open on my dresser ever since.

When I start flagging a bit the GHD soundtrack picks me right up - I have so many favorites I can't even list them all, but the lyrics of "Seeing You" - "But I'm here, and I'm fine" - are like a soothing mantra to me, and "I thought the only way to better days was through tomorrow" is a constant gentle reminder to me to stop waiting for a time when life will be easier, and instead live as fully as I can today.

I could go on and on but I'll stop here for now...

...and they say this show was a flop. *shakes head*



"

Thanks for sharing. This was really beautiful. I just bought a ticket to the final show. I don't care that it was financially a "flop." I loved it.



"



Ivy,



I'm front row for the final show (my daughter can't make it). Come say "hi"





"

will do!

This is what I look like:

https://www.instagram.com/poisonivylin/

How did they handle the lines that the Sheriff track normally has in "Stuck" - was the Sheriff both a healer and 12 Step advocate?

I had seen the pics but didn't think about how they'd handle some of the lines. (Did they reassign Buster's lines from the back of the diner?)

Thanks for the insight! I love seeing how tracks get handled in situations like that. The work swings and understudies do is amazing.

Malka2 said: "Oh man, I'm gonna start tearing up here.

I saw Groundhog Day for the first time on a very, very personally difficult day during a very difficult time. I chose the show semi-randomly from TKTS two hours before curtain, just looking for a distraction from life really. Instead, I walked out that night with a new perspective on life and my situation and all of the challenges we get and the hopes we have and the frustrating realities we face.

And on top of it all, there was Andy's massive black brace, persevering through injury, and his "champions adjust" mindset, all resilience and faith and grace... I couldn't stage door that night but I came back to the show a week later and asked Andy to write "Champions Adjust" in my playbill. I didn't put it away with the rest of my playbills, I've kept that page folded open on my dresser ever since.

When I start flagging a bit the GHD soundtrack picks me right up - I have so many favorites I can't even list them all, but the lyrics of "Seeing You" - "But I'm here, and I'm fine" - are like a soothing mantra to me, and "I thought the only way to better days was through tomorrow" is a constant gentle reminder to me to stop waiting for a time when life will be easier, and instead live as fully as I can today.

I could go on and on but I'll stop here for now...

...and they say this show was a flop. *shakes head*



"Geez, you're making my cry over here

Are you kidding, the harmonies in Nobody Cares kills me, I love it! Listening to Philanthropy right now..... I really wanna learn that tap dance just as a workout in my living room. I miss tap, I did it for years when I was younger.

Just spontaneously got a ticket for closing . Drinks before the show ?

My favorite joke was when Phil said, "Not willingly." (See if you remember that one.) I also loved the whole scene with Phil in the furs and his undies.

"Hope" -- I was absolutely dying at this number (no pun intended). It was so wrong but so right. I think that was the turning point from "this is okay with some laughs but kinda corny" to "this show is totally weird in all the right ways." And Andy's vocals on this is amazing.

Raymond killed it in his role and Nobody Cares was weirdly gorgeous and sad and relatable (and yes, those harmonies)!

Definitely felt myself falling for Andy Karl in this show, and totally cinched it at stage door, he was a total sweetheart!

I loved it in London and then again with a hobbled Andy on Bway in May. With this news, I will be buying a Labor Day weekend ticket (while moving my college kid back to the city - then buying her a final perf ticket.) And, of course, if this show were available to watch in some way outside of the theater --- which of course it isn't --- I have, er, um, would watch it another 2 or 3x a week.. because it is that great. This closing hurts!

My favorite thing about the show is the way it so inventively keeps the same day so fresh.. A movie is one thing.. But on stage?

The first time I saw it, I remember thinking (on Day 2) - "Are they just going to play the same scene over and over? Booooring!" And then POOF it's day 3 and they have figured a funny way to do the same scene over... right after the first two. And the rapid-fire "sweet vermouth" scenes and then the several "French poetry" scenes ("You're talking about a guy, here?" and "Nancy Taylor" scenes and the piano lesson/bench guy/Ned scene. Oh, man. And how can you not love "Hope" (even if you know how thy do it..) And the CAR CHASE! And WHAT is with that fresh and fabulous Barrett Doss? And has there been a better performance in years than Andy's? (Uh, no...)

Favorite actual performance moment... During "Philandering" Phil is in a robe in the diner and at one point sticks his bare leg up on the stool and sort of poses suggestively and says "Curious.....?" to Rita. Well, that's how it played in London/earlier in the run. By the time I saw leg-brace wearing Andy in the early days of his injury - he was gesturing to his obviously braced leg during this pose - acknowledging what the audience was probably wondering/worried about - and saying, " Curious...???"... The audience lost it....



And have you EVER seen a harder working, more talented ensemble? Special thumbs up to Call and Fatica and Lee and Sanders Kelly and the looovely Faulkenberry...

What a show!

Updated On: 8/17/17 at 10:49 PM

poisonivy2 said: "
Ivy,



I'm front row for the final show (my daughter can't make it). Come say "hi"





"

will do!

This is what I look like:

https://www.instagram.com/poisonivylin/"

You were so sitting behind me at Comet last week. Sorry we didn't get to speak. If you grab a drink with Dame and want a third--let me know. I'll be in a drinking mood.

I have a lottery code I won't be able to use for tomorrow's matinee: Gb4yV4QX



Enjoy the show for me!

I know it's a long shot, but anyone happen to win the lottery for tomorrow night and is not using their code?!

And that's not even the most. Travis has 29! The choreography going on backstage at GHD must be a show unto itself. Wish I could watch from there sometime.