The hit 1993 Columbia Pictures comedy will be presented as a Broadway musical in spring 2017.

    Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is an arrogant* weatherman for a local TV station and hates the annual Groundhog Day celebration and the town of Punxsatawney. Yet, he has to cover the event every year. But this year, a blizzard* forces him to stay the night and he wakes up the next morning to find that it’s still Groundhog Day and everyone is celebrating again. It happens again the next day, and the next, with only him knowing it.

    The film starts off with Connors being arrogant, and the only person he really seems to care about is himself. He hopes he can just do the job and get out of this town because he really hates everything about it, including every person he meets.

    Only on screen he appears kind but off camera, he’s terrible to everyone.

    When he realizes he’s living the same day over and over, he drinks and realizes he can do anything he wants with no consequences*. So he does. It’s really interesting to see what that kind of guy that realizes nothing he does has consequences will do, because some of them are quite funny, like going to the movies dressed as Clint Eastwood’s character in “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.”

    Then he starts committing all kinds of suicide* hoping to get out of it. He blows himself up, electrocutes* himself, gets hit with a car and jumps off a bell tower.

    The surprise is news producer Rita Hanson (Andie MacDowell). At first, he just wants to have a one-night stand* with her, and spends day after day finding out what she likes. Yet none of his tricks works until he starts to actually fall in love with her. Another surprise is the homeless man he keeps brushing off day after day. Turns out, no matter what he will do for him, he can’t stop him from continually dying.

    His efforts to help the homeless man and get Hanson to truly love him make Connors really want to be a better person. It’s not until he helps the whole town, has a mutual* romance with Hanson and betters himself intellectually and personality-wise can he move on to February 3. (SD-Agencies)