Carlyss Peer will play opposite Andy Karl in the stage version of Groundhog Day
Former Holby City star Carlyss Peer will join American actor Andy Karl in the highly anticipated stage musical version of the Bill Murray classic movie Groundhog Day.
Peer will step into the role of Rita Hanson, played by Andie MacDowell in the original 1980s film. Since graduating from RADA, Peer’s theatre credits have included Ophelia in Hamlet and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), Jefferson’s Garden (Watford Palace), But I Made You a Mix Tape (Etcetera Theatre), The Rivals (Theatre Royal Bath and Theatre Royal Haymarket) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Salisbury Playhouse).
On television, Peer played Bonnie Wallis in Holby City and has also appeared in Doctors, The Secret Agent, Silent Witness, Peter Pan and Eternal Law. She has recently completed filming for the new ITV drama Brief Encounters which will air later in 2016.
A Tony Award nominee for both his performance in the title role in Rocky the Musical and in last year’s Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century, Karl is currently enjoying small screen success after joining the cast of the long-running US crime series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Karl and Peer will be joined by an ensemble that includes: Leo Andrew, David Birch, Ste Clough, Roger Dipper, Georgina Hagen, Kieran Jae, Julie Jupp, Andrew Langtree, Vicki Lee Taylor, Emma Lindars, Antonio Magro, Carolyn Maitland, Kirsty Malpass, Lisa Mathieson, Eugene McCoy, Jenny O’Leary, Leanne Pinder, Mark Pollard, Damien Poole, Jack Shalloo, Andrew Spillett and Spencer Stafford.
Based on the 1983 hit movie in which charismatic Murray played a cynical TV weatherman who learns the true meaning of life and love while stuck in the recurring ‘day from hell’, Groundhog Day the Musical begins previews at London’s Old Vic on 11 July.
Written by Matilda the Musical’s Tim Minchin and directed by Matilda and Ghost director Matthew Warchus, Groundhog Day the Musical features a book by Danny Rubin based on his original screenplay co-written by the late Harold Ramis, the film’s director.
The creative team also includes choreographer Peter Darling and set and costume designer Rob Howell who previously worked with Warchus and Minchin on the smash hit Matilda.
Orchestration and additional music is by Christopher Nightingale, lighting design is by Hugh Vanstone, sound designer is Simon Baker, illusions are by Paul Kieve and additional movement is by Finn Caldwell.
The show which forms part of Warchus’ inaugural season as the Old Vic’s new artistic director, is expected to follow its London run with a Broadway transfer early next year.
Angela Thomas
Tickets for Groundhog Dog are available HERE.
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