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CARLYSS Peer (below), a classically trained actress from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, who started rehearsals on Monday for the musical version of the film Groundhog Day, in which she will play the part of TV producer Rita (Andie MacDowell in the 1993 movie). Andy Karl plays mean-spirited weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray’s role in the film), who lives the same day over and over again. Eugene McCoy has the part of Larry the cameraman. Matthew Warchus is directing the musical, which has been written by Danny Rubin (who also wrote the picture) and Tim Minchin, who worked with Warchus on Matilda. Choreographer Peter Darling and the show’s designers are using five revolves to give a sense of days repeating themselves over and over again. Performances at the Old Vic will start on July 11. Anne-MArie Duff (right) and Yolanda Kettle, who will play mother and daughter in ella Hickson’s play Oil, which Carrie Cracknell will direct at the Almeida Theatre from October 7. The drama spans from 1889 to the present day, and follows a family’s relationship with oil after it is discovered in the West Country. BARBARA Flynn, Zoe Wanamaker and Nina Sosanya, who star in Elegy — Nick Payne’s heartbreaking poem about love and death. As directed by Josie Rourke at the Donmar Warehouse, the hour-long piece makes you think about what truly, deeply matters in life. Lin-MAnueL Miranda, who wrote the Broadway musical megahit Hamilton (it’s going to be loaded with Tony award nominations when they’re announced on Tuesday), based on the life of early u.S. revolutionary government minister Alexander Hamilton, which will begin performances at the Victoria Palace in the autumn of 2017. (Dates are expected to be officially announced in the next few weeks.) Hamilton has become a phenomenon in the u.S. it started at the Public Theater, where i was lucky enough to catch it with Miranda as Hamilton (above) and Brian d’Arcy James as King George iii, and i’ve seen it several more times, with different actors playing the monarch — but always Miranda in the lead. Why is it so exciting? Well, Miranda’s score is hip-hop in style, but more importantly, the historical figures are played by non-white actors, which gives it an added spark. Miranda won’t open the production in London but will join the cast later on — perhaps in 2018 or 2019. The show won the Pulitzer prize for drama. Hamilton, the first secretary of the u.S. Treasury, is pictured on the $10 bill.