Groundhog Day the musical ...

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… seems to be a complete triumph, better reviews than Matilda ! **Tim Minchin **does it again. No mention of the Andie McDowell role in that article, one can only assume they got someone who can actually act, sing and dance.

I generally hate musicals but that’s looks like one I might see. Anyone seen/seeing/will see it?

[To get the obvious joke over with - Yes! Again and again and again …]

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Yeah, I’d go see it…but I think my ticket spend limit would be like $20.

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I could see it again and again and again and again …

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That’s the problem with obvious jokes, they’re never “over with”.

Groundhog Day is one of my favourite movies. I never once thought “it could use a couple of musical numbers”. No thanks. I am curious if they have a few songs resung multiple times, with tiny alterations.

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It’s Tim Minchin. So yes, I’ll check it out. On YouTube, though; I can’t afford tickets and stuff.

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I got you babe… Opening number?

     I still to this day will say out loud Phil? Phil Conners!   Lucky my family gets it, people at my 25 high school reunion not so much.
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Think of the fact that the actors will have to repeat this day after day after day after day. That will be very meta.

Trivia: the amount of time it’s estimated the main character spends in his time loop ranges from 36 days (the minimum amount based on the scenes shown) to more than 30 years (no idea how that was arrived at, though part is the estimated time it would take him to go from never having played piano or carved an ice sculpture to those levels of expertise).

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Music by Philip Glass ?

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Maybe we can figure out how many days are repeated by how many times the chorus is sung.

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NED?! punches

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I read somewhere that the writer or director (can’t remember which) thought of it as being about ten years.

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As per wiki:

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The usual wisdom is that it takes 10,000 hours to become expert at a skill. If he learned piano, French, and ice sculpting, and could only feasibly spend 2 hours a day studying then - depending on whether he overlapped his studies - it would take him anywhere from 5,000 to 15,000 days (14 to 41 years). The 30 year estimate sounds pretty reasonable.

And horrible. I somehow doubt that you’d actually come out sane after 30 years of living the same day over and over, let alone become a better person.

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Tim Minchin is definitely a multi-talented person who has achieved fame in several areas.

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It’s a musical now - obviously it was 525,600 minutes. :wink:

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And he likes boobs.