This witty, inventive and profound time loop musical is one to watch over and over again

SUBLIMELY witty and surprisingly profound, it's a pleasure to experience this new, improved musical version of Groundhog Day again.

- Nick Curtis

Based by Danny Rubin on his script for the 1993 Bill Murray film about an arrogant American weatherman endlessly reliving the same day, it has music and lyrics from Tim Minchin and direction by Matthew Warchus, two-thirds of the dream team that made Matilda a smash.

If this show doesn't quite escape the shadow of its source material, it adds dimension and depth to it. Groundhog Day makes perfect sense as a stage musical, a form where actions are repeated with variation in the hope of perfection. And of course, it's fitting that Broadway actor Andy Karl is back in the role of Phil Connors at the Old Vic where he and the show won rave reviews in 2016, only for the subsequent New York run to be cut short and for the anticipated West End transfer to evaporate. Better luck this time, eh?