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
Productions3 on Broadway
| 2016 | Transfer Theatre unknown. · predates this show | |
| 2017 | August Wilson Theatre Original. April 17, 2017 · Matthew Warchus | 176 performances · 1 Tony wins |
| 2024 | Transfer Theatre unknown. 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.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Groundhog Day matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
3 passages naming Groundhog Day, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
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
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