GROUNDHOG DAY scraps its national tour!?!? — Page 2

pretty sure groundhog day did not fail on bway because the lead character was a white male with a good job...
i saw it and while im glad to have seen andy karls performance the shows songs were mostly unmemorable(i cant name one and i own the cast recording) karl couldnt and didnt try to replicate murrays comic genius that carried the film, and i also dont feel karl or the script created the same level of empathy for the lead character and go along and engage in his transformation.

The Other One said: "Groundhog Day is a show about a spoiled, entitled straight white man who learns, over a long period of time, the error of his ways. Look at the current cultural climate. No one is lining up to see shows about such people anymore, and that's putting it gently. This is what I meant about it being produced at the wrong time.

Ironically, it might have played better outside of New York (and California), but because it initially flopped there it lost its chance at being seen where it might have registered."

In your previous post you stated it "was a very likable show". You now say it failed because it was about "a spoiled, entitled straight white man. No one is lining up to see shows about such people anymore". Are you stating that instead of "such people" if the main male character was a spoiled, entitled straight black man it would have succeeded?

ArtMan said: "The Other One said: "Groundhog Day is a show about a spoiled, entitled straight white man who learns, over a long period of time, the error of his ways. Look at the current cultural climate. No one is lining up to see shows about such people anymore, and that's putting it gently. This is what I meant about it being produced at the wrong time.

Ironically, it might have played better outside of New York (and California), but because it initially flopped there it lost its chance at being seen where it might have registered."

In your previous post you stated it "was a very likable show". You now say it failed because it was about "a spoiled, entitled straight white man. No one is lining up to see shows about such people anymore". Are you stating that instead of "such people" if the main male character was a spoiled, entitled straight black man it would have succeeded?"

Not necessarily.

Touring is a big financial gamble these days and Groundhog Day's Broadway production was huge and, ultimately, a flop. This really shouldn't shock people.

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Californian said: ""I am surprised ANDY KARL has not lined up any gigs since the BROADWAY run ended -- what a shame!!"



From what I understand, he's had surgery to repair the knee he injured in the show, and has been recuperating

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It's annoying that he's doing another LEGALLY BOUND with ORFEH and a bunch of no-name guest stars ... I hope he can break away from that stuff and do another show soon

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from what I understand is that he signed a tv development deal. bye bye broadway

We saw the show in June 2017. Thought it was brilliant. It would have played well in smaller cities and sold out in places like Atlanta's Fox Theater wherr they are hungry for something less esoteric, relatable. Maybe New Yorkers viewed it as low brow and Broadway had too many hot shows at once. Everyone I talked ho loved it. The critics loved it. To call it a flop is true in the sense of the run time but this show was a winner in every other sense of the word. Hope someone rethinks this.