"How do you get audiences to care about a guy who's a dick?" asks Tim Minchin. "Phil Connors as a character in the film relied so heavily on Bill Murray's bizarre charm, and obviously we don't have that to exploit. So the biggest goal: They shouldn't think about Bill Murray at the end of the show."
As the man behind the music and lyrics for the new adaptation of Groundhog Day that
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