GROUNDHOG DAY Reviews — Page 2

Chicago Tribune is mixed to positive (he loves the book and score):

"It takes a few minutes to get used to what Karl is doing — but this really is, in the final analysis, a highly effective and intensely skillful lead performance. Karl never oversentimentalizes nor seems afraid of coming off as a jerk. But he is just — just — likable enough as Phil to keep us invested in a cynic's rehabilitation and thus serves the core of what (in this stage version) becomes, yet more fundamentally, a romantic yarn. You want this pair to make it happen for each other, and get out of their destructive personal cycles.

That's key to the show's success, for as the great Ramis and Murray well understood, the whole shebang always was a metaphor for self-improvement and for coming to terms (kinda) with the quotidian perils of our daily existence, over and over and over again."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/broadway/sc-groundhog-day-broadway-review-ent-0417-20170417-column.html

Positive - https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/the-scene/Review-GroundhogDay-Andy-Karl-419536343.html%3Famp%3Dy

Instead of criticizing Jeffrey, you are more than welcome to post recaps on your own. If you don't want to do that, please stop complaining.

bwayphreak234 said: "Jeffrey, there is already a page that is updated with links. If you are not going to comment on the reviews and give a recap, please stop posting them.

In fairness to Jeffrey, he is usually much quicker to update than the dedicated BWW page. I appreciate his posts.

me too.

keep linking.....

This show is obviously not going to be as big a hit as people thought it would be. Just the truth. Don't see it getting nominated.

Positive -

'I saw Andy Karl in “Groundhog Day” on Thursday, and he was terrific. So, in fact, was the show, an ingenious, witty, dark yet joyously offbeat musical about Phil Connors, a snotty big-city TV weatherman forced to relive the same day, over and over in boring small-town Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, until, just maybe, he gets it right.'

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/theater/groundhog-day-review-andy-karl-s-injury-shadows-terrific-musical-1.13476956

But it's still a critic's pick!

Updated On: 4/17/17 at 09:13 PM

Very positive (borderline rave) from Brantley, outright rave for Karl





There are unexpectedly poignant solos for supporting characters, like the town beauty (Rebecca Faulkenberry) and a bereaved insurance salesman (John Sanders). And the riotous “Nobody Cares,” in which Phil goes driving drunk with a couple of barflies (Andrew Call and Raymond J. Lee, both hilarious), becomes an ingeniously staged exercise in hedonistic hopelessness. (Let’s pray that glitch is fixed permanently.)

Will Broadway audiences be willing to follow “Groundhog Day” into its darkest corners? (A repeated suicide sequence is a demonic doozy.) The bigger problem for many might be the plenitude of styles in which the movie traffics. The show is tighter and more consistent than when I saw it at the Old Vic in London (where the show and Mr. Karl picked up Olivier Awards). But it could still shed a number or two, including a long sequence in which Phil consults various fraudulent doctors.





Generally he seems to like the other characters' songs (a point of contention here) but does admit they go a number or two too far.

Positive (rave for Andy)

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/review/groundhog-day-theater-review-994676

positive - https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.thewrap.com/groundhog-day-broadway-review-andy-karl-star-reborn-reborn/amp/