{"id":3064,"date":"2017-08-21T00:45:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T07:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2017-08-21T00:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T07:45:04","slug":"murrays-groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/08\/21\/murrays-groundhog-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray&#8217;s Groundhog Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the case of&nbsp;<em>Sunset Boulevard<\/em>, we&#8217;re talking about a film which became a musical (which may soon become a musical film).&nbsp; With&nbsp;<strong><em>Groundhog Day<\/em><\/strong>, it was a movie that became a musical.&nbsp; And that&nbsp;<em>Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>musical has had a rocky road, despite plaudits from critics and fans alike.&nbsp; Last week, the show got some encouragement from a special person &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Bill Murray<\/strong>.&nbsp; The star of the film version of&nbsp;<em>Groundhog Day<\/em>&nbsp;went to see the musical and was moved to tears.&nbsp; &#8220;It was really beautiful.&nbsp; You got me.&nbsp; You really got me,&#8221; he said at the end of the show.&nbsp; When addressing the cast, he said, &#8220;The idea that we just have to try again.&nbsp; We just have to try again.&nbsp; It&#8217;s such a beautiful, powerful idea.&#8221;&nbsp; It was so powerful that the very next day, Bill Murray went to see it again!&nbsp; Either that, or they all somehow fell into some real-life &#8220;groundhog day&#8221; experience.&nbsp; &#8220;This show should be mandatory,&#8221; he said the second time around.&nbsp; Alas, while Bill keeps buying tickets, the crowds are not.&nbsp; The show just posted its closing notices and will leave&nbsp;<em>Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>on September 17th and embark on a national tour next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the case of&nbsp;Sunset Boulevard, we&#8217;re talking about a film which became a musical (which may soon become a musical film).&nbsp; With&nbsp;Groundhog Day, it was a movie that became a musical.&nbsp; And that&nbsp;Broadway&nbsp;musical has had a rocky road, despite plaudits from critics and fans alike.&nbsp; Last week, the show got some encouragement from a special<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}