December 7, 2019
Digging into winter: San Francisco Playhouse’s “Groundhog Day”
It’s hard to imagine the darkly comic film with Bill Murray, Groundhog Day, as a musical, even though musicals these days tend often deal with the bleaker side of human nature, at their darkest delving into criminality and murder.
The play was chosen, according to San Francisco Playhouse’s Artistic Director Bill English, because the company was seeking “a show that will work well for the holidays.” One that was not A Christmas Carol, the most iconic theatrical piece...