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Groundhog Day: The Musical

Groundhog Day

Shows · Groundhog Day

Arrogant TV weatherman Phil Connors is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festival and finds himself inexplicably trapped in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over. His initial attempts to exploit the situation for selfish gain give way to despair, but gradually Phil uses his infinite do-overs to become a better person, master new skills, and ultimately win the love of his…

Opened
2017
Performances
176
Type
Musical
Era
Contemporary
Music: Tim MinchinLyrics: Tim MinchinBook: Danny Rubin

Productions3 on Broadway

2016 Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show
2017 August Wilson Theatre Original. April 17, 2017 · Matthew Warchus 176 performances · 1 Tony wins
2024 Transfer Theatre not recorded. December 2, 2023

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Groundhog Day matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature3 passages

45 years later Nat ‘King’ Cole’s swingin’ recording was chosen to close the Bill Murray film hit Groundhog Day , not just because the song broadly suited the scenario but also as a sly joke: Brigadoon was about a village which appears out of the Scotch mist for one day every hundred years; Groundhog Day is about a man… book:broadway-babies-say-goodnight-musicals-then-and-now-mark-steyn#p119

Katy Geraghty, an ensemble member in Groundhog Day on Broadway and Tracy in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2019 production of Hairspray, writes, “Don…t forget that typecasting can also be your friend and the reason you have a job.” book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p123

The majority of the big adaptations have been from nonmusical films from the eighties (Xanadu, The Witches of Eastwick, Hairspray, Big), the nineties (Pretty Woman, Groundhog Day, The Full Monty), and most of all the current century (Billy Elliot, Legally Blonde, Shrek, Bend It Like Beckham, Calendar Girls, Kinky Boots… book:the-musical-a-concise-history-second-edition-ga-nzl-kurt-findlay-jamie-2-2022010#p463

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

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