The Senate and House intelligence committees are continuing to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election , including potential coordination between Russian officials and the Trump campaign or people close to the campaign .

Question: Who is continuing to do something?

Question: What is someone continuing to do?

to investigate Russian interference

Question: Who investigates something?

Question: What is being investigated?

Russian interference

Question: What is someone investigating?

Question: What is included?

potential coordination

Question: What does something include?


Congressional investigators have so far homed in on Flynn , Carter Page , a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign , and Roger Stone , who informally advised Trump during his presidential run .

Question: Who advised someone?

Roger Stone

Question: How did someone advise someone?

informally

Question: Who did someone advise?

Trump

Question: When did someone advise someone?

during his presidential run


While Trump asked for Flynn 's resignation , he has not abandoned his former national security adviser altogether .

Question: Who asked for something?

Trump

Question: What did someone aske for?

Flynn 's resignation

Question: Who didn't abandon someone?

Trump

Question: Who didn't abandon something?

Flynn

he

Question: What didn't someone abandon?

his former national security adviser

Question: How didn't someone abandon something?

altogether


Trump on Monday morning sought to get ahead of Yates ' testimony , taking to Twitter to deflect criticism that he or his administration should have kept Flynn out of the top national security post from the outset .

Question: When was someone trumped?

on Monday morning

Question: Who sought to do something?

Trump

Question: When did someone seek to do something?

on Monday morning

Monday morning

Question: What did someone seek?

to get ahead of Yates ' testimony

Question: What did someone seek to do?

get ahead of Yates ' testimony

Question: Who got?

Trump

Question: When did someone get?

on Monday morning

Monday morning

Question: Who took?

Trump

Question: When did someone take to something?

on Monday morning

Question: Where did someone take?

to Twitter

Question: What did someone take to?

Twitter

Question: Why did someone take somewhere?

to deflect criticism

Question: Why did someone take to something?

Question: Who deflected something?

Trump

Question: When did someone deflect something?

on Monday morning

Question: Where did someone deflect something?

Twitter

Question: What did someone deflect?

criticism

Question: Who has kept something?

he or his administration

his administration

Question: Who has someone kept?

Flynn

Question: Where did someone keep someone?

out of the top national security post

Question: When did someone keep someone?

from the outset


General Flynn was given the highest security clearance by the Obama Administration - but the Fake News seldom likes talking about that .

Question: Who was given something?

General Flynn

Question: What was someone given?

the highest security clearance

Question: Who was someone given by?

the Obama Administration

Question: Who will like doing something?

the Fake News

Question: What will like doing something?

Fake News

Question: When does something like?

seldom

Question: What does someone like  doing?

talking about that

Question: Who is talke about something?

General Flynn

Question: Who isn't talke about something?

the Fake News

Fake News

Question: What isn't someone talke about?

that


— Donald J. Trump ( @realDonaldTrump ) May 8 , 2017 Ask Sally Yates , under oath , if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council .

Question: Who asks someone?

Donald J. Trump

Question: Who is being asked?

Sally Yates

Question: How is someone being asked?

under oath

Question: Why is someone being asked?

Question: Who knows something?

Sally Yates

she

Question: What does someone know?

Question: What got into something?

classified information

Question: Where did something get?

into the newspapers

Question: What did something get into?

the newspapers

Question: When did something get into something?

Question: Who explained something?

Sally Yates

she

Question: What did someone explain?

it

Question: Who did someone explain something to?

W.H. Council


— Donald J. Trump ( @realDonaldTrump ) May 8 , 2017 " General Flynn was given the highest security clearance by the Obama administration -- but the Fake News seldom likes talking about that , " Trump said in his first missive .

Question: Who was given something?

General Flynn

Question: What was someone given?

the highest security clearance

Question: Who will like doing something?

the Fake News

Question: What will like doing something?

Fake News

Question: When does something like?

seldom

Question: What will someone like  doing?

talking about that

Question: Who isn't talke about something?

the Fake News

Fake News

Question: What isn't someone talke about?

that

Question: Who said something?

Trump

Question: Where did someone say something?

in his first missive


" Ask Sally Yates , under oath , if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Counsel , " he tweeted .

Question: Who is being asked?

Sally Yates

Question: How is someone being asked?

under oath

Question: Why is someone being asked?

Question: Who knows something?

Sally Yates

she

Question: What does someone know?

Question: What got into something?

classified information

Question: Where did something get?

into the newspapers

Question: What did something get into?

the newspapers

Question: Who explained something?

Sally Yates

she

Question: What did someone explain?

it

Question: Who did someone explain something to?

W.H. Counsel

Question: Who tweeted?

he


Flynn began advising Trump on national security in early 2016 and soon became a constant presence by Trump 's side as he crisscrossed the country from rally to rally .

Question: Who began doing something?

Flynn

Question: What did someone begin  doing?

advising Trump

Question: When did someone begin doing something?

in early 2016

Question: Who was advising someone?

Flynn

Question: Who did someone advise?

Trump

Question: Where was someone advised?

on national security

Question: What was someone advised on?

national security

Question: When was someone advised somewhere?

in early 2016

Question: Who became something?

Flynn

Question: When did someone become something?

soon

Question: What did someone become?

a constant presence

a constant presence by Trump 's side

Question: Who crisscrossed something?

Flynn

he

Question: What did someone crisscross?

the country

Question: How did someone crisscross something?

from rally to rally


He frequently introduced Trump on the campaign trail , delivering introductory remarks rife with criticism of the Obama administration 's foreign policy and of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton .

Question: Who introduced someone?

He

Question: When did someone introduce someone?

frequently

Question: Who did someone introduce?

Trump

Question: Where did someone introduce someone?

on the campaign trail

Question: Who delivered something?

He

Trump

Question: What did someone deliver?

introductory remarks


Flynn often led Trump supporters in chants of " Lock her up ! " as he accused her of corruption and negligence in her use of a private email server .

Question: Who led someone?

Flynn

Question: Who did someone lead?

Trump supporters

Question: How did someone lead someone?

in chants of " Lock her up ! "

Question: Why did someone lead someone?

Question: Who is being locked?

her

Question: Who accused someone?

Flynn

he

Question: Who did someone accuse?

her

Question: What did someone accuse someone of?

corruption and negligence


Trump came to value Flynn not only for his like - minded view of global affairs but for his loyalty throughout the campaign .

Question: Who came?

Trump

Question: What did someone come to do?

to value Flynn

value Flynn

Question: Why did someone come?


CNN 's Jake Tapper , Kevin Liptak , Pamela Brown and Gloria Borger contributed to this report .

Question: Who contributed to something?

Gloria Borger

Question: What did someone contribute to?

this report


Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports .

Question: What is being broken?

News Emails

Question: How is something being broken?

Question: What is being gotten?

breaking news alerts

Question: What is breaking?

news alerts

news alerts and special reports


The news and stories that matter , delivered weekday mornings .

Question: What was delivered?

The news and stories that matter

Question: When was something delivered?

weekday mornings


May 8 , 2017 , 3:10 PM GMT / Updated May 8 , 2017 , 3:33 PM GMT By Kristen Welker , Dafna Linzer and Ken Dilanian Former President Obama warned President Donald Trump against hiring Mike Flynn as his national security adviser , three former Obama administration officials tell NBC News .

Question: When was someone updated?

May 8 , 2017 , 3:33 PM GMT

Question: Who was updated?

Kristen Welker

Question: When did someone warn someone?

Question: Who warned someone?

Question: Who did someone warn?

President Donald Trump

Question: What did someone warn someone to?

Question: What did someone warn someone about?

Question: Who hire someone?

President Donald Trump

Donald Trump

Question: Who is someone hire?

Mike Flynn

Question: How did someone hire someone?

as his national security adviser

Question: What is someone hire someone as?

his national security adviser

Question: Who tells something?

Question: Who does someone tell something?

NBC News


The warning , which has not been previously reported , came less than 48 hours after the November election when the two sat down for a 90-minute conversation in the Oval Office .

Question: What wasn't be reported?

The warning

Question: When was something be reported?

previously

Question: What came?

The warning

Question: When did something come?

Question: When did someone sit somewhere?

Question: Who sat somewhere?

the two

Question: Where did someone sit?

down

in the Oval Office

Question: Why did someone sit somewhere?


A senior Trump administration official acknowledged Monday that Obama raised the issue of Flynn , saying the former president made clear he was " not a fan of Michael Flynn . "

Question: Who acknowledged something?

A senior Trump administration official

Question: When did someone acknowledge something?

Monday

Question: What did someone acknowledge?

that Obama raised the issue of Flynn

Obama raised the issue of Flynn

Question: Who raised something?

Obama

Question: What did someone raise?

the issue of Flynn

Question: Who said something?

A senior Trump administration official

Obama

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who made something?

the former president

Question: What did someone myek?

clear

he was " not a fan of Michael Flynn


Another official said Obama ’s remark seemed like it was made in jest .

Question: Who said something?

Another official

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What seemed?

Obama ’s remark

Question: What did something seem?

like it was made in jest

Question: What was made?

it

Question: How was something made?

in jest


According to all three former officials , Obama warned Trump against hiring Flynn .

Question: Who is something according to?

all three former officials

Question: What is according to someone?

Obama warned Trump against hiring Flynn

Question: Who warned someone?

Obama

Question: Who did someone warn?

Trump

Question: What did someone warn someone with doing?

against hiring Flynn

Question: What did someone warn someone of?

hiring Flynn

Question: Who is hire someone?

Trump

Question: Who is someone hire?

Flynn


The Obama administration fired Flynn in 2014 from his position as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency , largely because of mismanagement and temperament issues .

Question: Who fired someone?

The Obama administration

Question: Who did someone fire?

Flynn

Question: When did someone fire someone?

in 2014

Question: How did someone fire someone?

Question: What did someone fire someone from?

Question: Why did someone fire someone?


NBC News Alerts : Sign up to be the first to know about breaking news Obama ’s warning pre - dated the concerns inside the government about Flynn ’s contacts with the Russian ambassador , one of the officials said .

Question: What is being signed about?

breaking news

Question: What is being known?

news

Question: What was broken?

the concerns inside the government

Question: Who dated something?

one of the officials


Obama passed along a general caution that he believed Flynn was not suitable for such a high level post , the official added .

Question: Who passed something?

Obama

Question: What did someone pass?

a general caution

Question: Who believed something?

Obama

he

Question: What did someone believe?

Question: What did someone add?

Question: Who added something?

the official


Two administration officials said Obama also warned Trump to stay vigilant on North Korea .

Question: Who said something?

Two administration officials

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who warned someone something?

Obama

Question: Who did someone warn?

Trump

Question: What did someone warn someone to do?

to stay vigilant on North Korea

stay vigilant on North Korea

Question: Who stay?

Trump

Question: How does someone stay?

vigilant

Question: What is someone stay?

vigilant on North Korea


The revelations came on the same day that former acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified about the events that led to Flynn 's eventual firing .

Question: What came?

The revelations

Question: When did something come?

Question: When did someone testify about something?

on the same day

Question: Who testified about something?

Attorney General Sally Yates

Question: What did someone testify about?

Question: What led to something?

the events

events

Question: What did something lead to?

Flynn 's eventual firing


Separately , two U.S. officials told NBC News that the Defense Intelligence Agency did n't know Flynn had been paid nearly $ 34,000 by a Russian state media outlet when it renewed his security clearance in April 2016 .

Question: Where did someone tell something?

Separately

Question: Who told something?

two U.S. officials

Question: Who did someone tell something?

NBC News

Question: What did someone tell someone?

Question: Who didn't know something?

the Defense Intelligence Agency

Defense Intelligence Agency

Question: What didn't someone know?

Question: Who was paid?

Flynn

Question: What was someone paid?

nearly $ 34,000

Question: Who has paid someone?

a Russian state media outlet

Question: When was someone paid?

Question: Who renewed something?

Flynn

Question: What renewed something?

it

Question: What did someone renew?

his security clearance

Question: When did someone renew something?

in April 2016

April 2016


Trump named Flynn as his national security adviser .

Question: Who named someone?

Trump

Question: Who did someone name?

Flynn

Question: How did someone name someone?

as his national security adviser

Question: What did someone name someone as?

his national security adviser


Flynn , who was conducting private conversations with the Russian ambassador regarding sanctions , was then fired three weeks into the administration for misleading Vice President Pence about those conversations .

Question: Who was conducting something?

Flynn

Question: What was someone conducting?

private conversations

Question: Who was someone conducting something with?

the Russian ambassador

Question: Who regarded something?

Flynn

the Russian ambassador

Question: What was someone regarding?

sanctions

Question: Who was fired?

Flynn

Question: Where was someone fired?

three weeks into the administration

Question: Why was someone fired somewhere?


Obama and Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office on Nov. 10 , 2016 .

Question: Who shakes something?

Obama and Trump

Question: What does someone shake?

hands

Question: When does someone shake something?

on Nov. 10 , 2016

Nov. 10 , 2016

Question: What is being followed?

their meeting

their meeting in the Oval Office

Question: Where is something being followed?

in the Oval Office

Question: When is something following something?

on Nov. 10 , 2016

Nov. 10 , 2016


Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP News of the Obama warning came as Trump sought to get ahead of a day of unpleasant disclosures about his former top foreign policy aide , taking to Twitter Monday to cast aspersions on Yates , the 27-year Justice Department prosecutor who warned the White House that then - National Security Adviser Mike Flynn had misled officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador .

Question: What came?

Question: Who sought to do something?

Trump

Question: What did someone seek?

Question: What did someone seek to do?

Question: Who got?

Trump

Question: Who took to something?

Trump

Question: Where did someone take?

to Twitter

Question: What did someone take to?

Twitter

Question: When did someone take?

Monday

Question: Why was someone taking somewhere?

to cast aspersions on Yates

Question: Who cast something?

Trump

Question: When did someone cast something?

Monday

Question: What was cast?

aspersions

Question: Who did someone cast something on?

Yates

Question: Who warned someone something?

Yates

Justice Department prosecutor

Question: Who did someone warn something?

the White House

Question: What did someone warn someone?

Question: Who had misled someone?

National Security Adviser Mike Flynn

Mike Flynn

Question: Who did someone mislead?

officials

Question: What did someone mislead someone of?

Question: What did someone mislead someone about?


Related : White House Denies Claim That Yates ' Testimony Was Blocked " Ask Sally Yates , under oath , if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Counsel , " Trump tweeted , referring to Yates’ conversation with White House counsel Donald McGahn .

Question: What was blocked?

Yates ' Testimony

Question: Who is being asked?

Sally Yates

Question: Who knows something?

Sally Yates

she

Question: What does someone know?

Question: What got into something?

classified information

Question: Where did something get?

into the newspapers

Question: What did something get into?

the newspapers

Question: Who explained something?

Sally Yates

she

Question: What did someone explain?

it

Question: Who did someone explain something to?

W.H. Counsel

Question: Who tweeted?

Trump

Question: Who referred to something?

Trump

Question: What did someone refer to?


But Trump has left many other important questions about the Flynn affair unanswered , including : What , if anything , did he know about his national security adviser ’s conversations with the Russian ambassador ?

Question: Who has left something?

Trump

Question: What has someone left?

Question: How did someone leave something?

unanswered

Question: What is included?

Question: Who knew about something?

he

Question: What did someone know about?

his national security adviser


Monday afternoon , Yates is scheduled to testify for the first time in public , alongside James Clapper , the former director of national intelligence , who pushed Flynn in 2014 from his job as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency .

Question: When is someone scheduled to do something?

Monday afternoon

Question: Who is scheduled to do something?

Yates

Question: What is someone scheduled to do?

to testify

to testify for the first time in public

testify

testify for the first time in public

Question: When does someone testify?

Monday afternoon

Question: Who testifies?

Yates

James Clapper

Question: What is someone testifying for?

the first time in public

Question: Who pushed someone?

James Clapper

Question: Who did someone push?

Flynn

Question: When did someone push someone?

in 2014

Question: How did someone push someone?

Question: What did someone push someone from?


The two are due to appear before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee at 2:30 p.m.

Question: Who appears somewhere?

The two

Question: Where is someone appear?

before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee

Question: When is someone appear somewhere?

at 2:30 p.m.


It was more than a week after Yates raised concerns about Flynn with McGahn

Question: Who raised something?

Yates

Question: What did someone raise?

concerns

concerns about Flynn


that the story leaked to the Washington Post , prompting a series of events that led to Flynn ’s ouster from his White House job .

Question: What was leaked?

the story

Question: Where was something leaked?

to the Washington Post

Question: Who did something leak to?

the Washington Post

Question: What did something prompt?

a series of events

Question: What led to something?

a series of events

Question: What did something lead to?


In a second tweet Monday morning , Trump noted that " General Flynn was given the highest security clearance by the Obama administration , but the Fake News seldom likes talking about that . "

Question: Where did someone note something?

In a second tweet

In a second tweet Monday morning

Question: When did someone note something?

Monday morning

Question: Who noted something?

Trump

Question: What did someone note?

Question: Who was given something?

General Flynn

Question: What was someone given?

the highest security clearance

Question: Who was someone given by?

the Obama administration

Question: What will like doing something?

the Fake News

Fake News

Question: What will someone like  doing?

talking about that

Question: Who isn't talke about something?

the Fake News

Fake News

Question: What isn't someone talke about?

that


It ’s true that Flynn got his top level security clearance renewed in January 2016 , but what Trump did n’t mention is that Flynn should have received a far more thorough vetting in advance of his becoming national security adviser , a job that allows access to the nation ’s most closely - held secrets .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

true

Question: Who got something?

Flynn

Question: What did someone get?

Question: When did someone get something?

in January 2016

January 2016

Question: What was renewed?

his top level security clearance

top level security clearance

Question: When was something renewed?

in January 2016

January 2016

Question: Who mentioned something?

Trump

Question: What did someone mention?

Question: Who has received something?

Flynn

Question: What has someone received?

a far more thorough vetting

Question: Who became something?

Flynn

Question: What did someone become?

national security adviser

Question: What allows something?

a job

Question: What does something allow?

access to the nation ’s

Question: What is held?

secrets


What was the nature of that vetting , and did it raise any flags about Flynn ’s lobbying work for Turkish interests during the campaign , or his paid appearance on behalf of Russian state media , both now under scrutiny by law enforcement agencies ?

Question: What has raised something?

it

Question: What did something raise?

any flags

Question: What was paid?

appearance


Question: Who said something?

The White House

n’t


Related : Flynn Never Told DIA That Russians Paid Him , Say Officials Another big question that has never been answered : Did Flynn coordinate with the president over his repeated contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak ?

Question: Who has told something?

Flynn

Question: Who has been told something?

DIA

Question: What did someone tell someone?

Question: What wasn't be answered?

Another big question

Question: Who coordinated?

Flynn

Question: Who did someone coordinate with?

the president

Question: How did someone coordinate?

Question: Who repeated something?

the president

Question: What was repeated?

contacts


Those contacts raised alarms not only within the Obama administration , but within Trump ’s own transition team , according to reports Friday confirmed by NBC News .

Question: What raised something?

Those contacts

Question: What did something raise?

alarms

Question: How did something raise something?

Question: What is according to something?

Question: What is something according to?

reports

Question: When is something according to something?

Friday

Question: When was something confirmed?

Friday

Question: Who confirmed something?

NBC News


There were concerns that the Trump administration was signaling Russia not to worry about the Obama administration sanctions on Russia over its election interference , which expelled Russian intelligence officers from the U.S. and blocked access to Russian diplomatic compounds here .

Question: Who was signaling something?

the Trump administration

Trump administration

Question: What was someone signaling?

Russia

Question: Who didn't worry about something?

Russia

Question: What wasn't someone worry about?

Question: Who did something expel?

Russian intelligence officers

Question: Where did someone expel someone?

from the U.S.

Question: Where did someone expel something from?

the U.S.

Question: What did someone block?

access to Russian diplomatic compounds

Question: Where did someone block something?

here


Flynn was fired as national security adviser , White House officials said , because he told Vice President Pence he did n’t discuss those sanctions with Kislyak , despite FBI transcripts showing that he did .

Question: Who was fired?

Flynn

Question: How was someone fired?

as national security adviser

Question: What was someone fired as?

national security adviser

Question: Who said something?

White House officials

Question: Why did someone say something?

Question: Who told someone something?

Flynn

he

Question: Who did someone tell something?

Vice President Pence

Question: What did someone tell someone?

Question: Who discussed something?

Vice President Pence

he

Question: What did someone discuss?

those sanctions

Question: Who did someone discuss something with?

Kislyak

Question: What showed something?

FBI transcripts

Question: What did something show?

that he did


That is among the issues Yates raised to McGahn , according to people who have been briefed on the matter .

Question: What did someone raise?

the issues

issues

Question: Who raised something?

Yates

Question: Who did someone raise something to?

McGahn

Question: Who is something according to?

people

Question: Who has been briefed on something?

people

Question: What has someone be briefed on?

the matter


People familiar with her plans do n’t expect her to get into much detail about her warnings regarding Flynn , largely because many of the underlying facts involve classified material .

Question: Who expects something?

People

People familiar with her plans

Question: What does someone expect?

Question: What does someone expect someone to do?

Question: Who gets into something?

her

Question: What does someone get into?

much detail

Question: What regarded someone?

her warnings

Question: Who is being regarded?

Flynn

Question: What is underlying?

facts

Question: What involves something?

many of the underlying facts

underlying facts

Question: What does something involve?

classified material

Question: What is classified?

material


In advance of her testimony , Republicans have been accusing her of acting politically , and noting that she was fired by Trump for refusing to enforce his travel ban .

Question: Why wasn't someone accuse someone?

In advance of her testimony

Question: Who has been accusing someone?

Republicans

Question: Who did someone have accused something?

her

Question: What has someone been accused of?

acting politically

Question: Who was acting?

Republicans

her

Question: How was someone acting?

politically

Question: Where did someone note something?

In advance of her testimony

Question: Who noted something?

Republicans

Question: What did someone note?

Question: Who was fired?

she

Question: Who was someone fired by?

Trump

Question: Why was someone fired?

for refusing to enforce his travel ban

Question: Who refused to do something?

Republicans

Question: Who was refusing to do something?

Trump

Question: What did someone refuse to do?

to enforce his travel ban

enforce his travel ban

Question: Who didn't enforce something?

Trump

Question: What wasn't someone enforce?

his travel ban


Question: Who calls someone something?

They

Question: Who does someone call something?

her

Question: What does someone call someone?

a partisan Democrat

partisan Democrat


Related : Former Acting AG Sally Yates to Testify Publicly in House Intel Probe

Question: Who is related?

Former Acting AG Sally Yates

Question: Who testifies somewhere?

Former Acting AG Sally Yates

Sally Yates

Question: How does someone testify?

Publicly

Question: Where is someone testifying?

in House Intel Probe


In response , her defenders point out that she spent much of her 27-year Justice Department career working as a line prosecutor , a non - political job .

Question: How does someone point up something?

In response

Question: Who points up something?

her defenders

Question: What does someone point up?

Question: Who spent something?

her defenders

she

Question: What did someone spend?

Question: Who worked?

her defenders

she

Question: What was someone working as?

a line prosecutor


Though she was appointed to positions in both the Clinton and Obama administrations , she was widely respected on both sides of the aisle .

Question: Who was appointed?

she

Question: What was someone appointed to?

Question: Who was respected?

she

she

Question: How was someone respected?

widely

Question: Where was someone respected?

on both sides of the aisle

Question: What was someone respected on?

both sides of the aisle


Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson , her home state senator , was among those introducing her at her 2015 confirmation hearing to become deputy attorney general .

Question: Who was introducing someone?

Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson

those

Question: Who was introduced?

Johnny Isakson

Question: Who did someone introduce?

her

Question: Where was someone introduced?

at her 2015 confirmation hearing

Question: Why was someone introducing someone?

to become deputy attorney general

Question: When was someone heard?

Question: Why was someone heard?

to become deputy attorney general

Question: Who became someone?

Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson

Johnny Isakson

Question: What did someone become?

deputy attorney general


Question: Who was confirmed?

She


On the first night of previews for Groundhog Day the musical , as the lights go down , it ’s safe to say that most of the audience already knows the story that ’s about to unfold .

Question: What goes?

the lights

Question: How does something go?

down

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

safe

Question: What is being said?

Question: Who knows something?

most of the audience

the audience

Question: What does someone know?

the story that ’s about to unfold

Question: What ’s?

the story

Question: What does something ’s to do?

about to unfold

Question: What unfolds?

the story

’s


It would be hard to find anyone who has n’t seen , or osmotically absorbed , the 1993 Bill Murray film on which this show is based , the story of a cynical weatherman trapped in a single repeating day .

Question: What will to do something?

It

Question: What did something will?

be hard

Question: Who is be found?

anyone

Question: What was be seen?

n’t

Question: How was something absorbed?

osmotically

Question: What is absorbed?

the 1993 Bill Murray film

Question: What is based?

the 1993 Bill Murray film

this show

Question: Who was trapped?

a cynical weatherman

cynical weatherman

Question: How was someone trapped?

in a single repeating day

Question: What was someone trapped in?

a single repeating day


But no one knows it as well as the guy in the third row : a 60-year - old with wild wisps of hair , round eyeglasses , and a Hopi - sun - symbol stud in one ear .

Question: Who knows something?

no one

Question: What will someone know?

it


Danny Rubin is utterly rapt , even though he ’s seen this performance more than 20 times ; even though he ’s lived with this story for nearly 25 years ; even though he ’s listening to some of the same lines he first tapped out on a Toshiba laptop when he was a young man of 32 .

Question: Who ’s something?

Danny Rubin

he

Question: What does someone ’s?

seen this performance

Question: How does someone ’s something?

more than 20 times

Question: Who saw something?

Danny Rubin

he

Question: What did someone see?

this performance

Question: How did someone see something?

more than 20 times

Question: Who ’s something?

Danny Rubin

he

Question: What did someone ’s?

lived

Question: How long does someone ’s something?

for nearly 25 years

Question: Who lived with something?

Danny Rubin

he

Question: How did someone live?

with this story

Question: What did someone live with?

this story

Question: How long did someone live?

for nearly 25 years

Question: Who ’s something?

Danny Rubin

he

Question: What does someone ’s?

listening to some of the same lines

Question: Who is listening to something?

Danny Rubin

he

Question: What is someone listening to?

some of the same lines

Question: Who tapped up?

Danny Rubin

Question: What did someone tap?

lines

Question: Who tapped up something?

he

Question: Where did someone tap up something?

on a Toshiba laptop

Question: What did someone tap up?

a Toshiba laptop

Question: When did someone tap up something?

when he was a young man of 32


Rubin is the guy who wrote Groundhog Day the musical .

Question: Who wrote something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone write?

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day the musical

the musical


He ’s also the guy who wrote Groundhog Day the film — both the original script and the version he later hammered out with director Harold Ramis .

Question: Who ’s something?

He

Question: What does someone ’s?

the guy who wrote Groundhog Day

Question: Who wrote something?

the guy

Question: What did someone write?

Groundhog Day

the film

Question: What was hammered?

the version

Question: Who hammered something?

he

Question: When did someone hammer up something?

later

Question: Who did someone hammer on?

director Harold Ramis


It ’s still the film he ’s still best known for ; in fact , to this day , it ’s the only film he ’s known for .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

the film he ’s still best known for

Question: What does someone ’s?

the film

still best known for

Question: Who ’s something?

he

Question: What is known for something?

the film

Question: Who is known for something?

the film he ’s

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

the only film he ’s known for

Question: What did someone ’s?

the only film

film

Question: Who ’s something?

he

Question: What is known for something?

the only film

film

Question: Who is known for something?

he


If you look him up on imdb.com , there are just four writing credits to his name .

Question: Who looks somewhere?

you

Question: Who does someone look?

him

Question: Where does someone look?

on imdb.com

imdb.com


One of them is the story credit for the Italian remake of Groundhog Day ( “ Stork Day ” ) .


Two others are screenplays for a 1993 Marlee Matlin thriller and a 1994 film called S.F.W. that enjoys a solid 12 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes .

Question: What is called something?

a 1994 film

Question: What is something called?

S.F.W.

Question: What enjoys something?

a 1994 film called S.F.W.

S.F.W.

Question: What does something enjoy?

a solid 12 percent rating

Question: Where does something enjoy something?

on Rotten Tomatoes

Question: What does something enjoy something on?

Rotten Tomatoes


The fourth credit is Groundhog Day — a film so beloved , idiomized , and dissertated about that it ’s passed into English vernacular .

Question: What is idiomized?

a film

Question: What is dissertated?

a film

Question: What ’s something?

a film

it

Question: What was passed into something?

a film

’s

Question: How was something passed?

into English vernacular

Question: What was something passed into?

English vernacular


For almost 25 years , that lone film has remained , for good or ill , his calling card .

Question: When has something remained?

For almost 25 years

Question: What has remained?

that lone film

lone film

Question: Why has something remained something?

for good or ill , his calling card

Question: What has something remained?

his calling card

Question: How long was something called?

For almost 25 years

Question: What was called?

that lone film

his

card


“ I ’m the guy who wrote Groundhog Day , ” he says now .

Question: Who ’m something?

I

Question: What does someone ’m?

the guy who wrote Groundhog Day

Question: Who wrote something?

the guy

Question: What did someone write?

Groundhog Day

Question: Who says something?

he

Question: When does someone say something?

now


“ I ’m not the amazing screenwriter who ’s had this long and storied career .

Question: Who ’m something?

I

Question: Who ’s something?

the amazing screenwriter

screenwriter


Question: Who ’m?

I

Question: What does someone ’m?

Tom Stoppard


But if you have to be stuck with one movie , it could be a worse movie than Groundhog Day .

Question: Who is stuck?

you

Question: How is someone stuck?

with one movie

Question: What is someone stuck with?

one movie


“ It ’s delightful to be so associated with something so well loved , ” Rubin says .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

delightful

Question: What is loved?

something

Question: How is someone loved?

well

Question: Who says something?

Rubin


“ You could break your heart thinking you ’re the victim of this amazing life you ’ve got . ”

Question: Who can break something?

You

Question: What can someone break?

your heart

Question: How can someone break something?

Question: Who thinkes something?

You

Question: What is being thought?

Question: Who ’re something?

you

Question: What does someone ’re?

Question: What did someone ’ve?

this amazing life

amazing life

life

Question: Who ’ve something?

you

Question: What did someone get?

this amazing life

amazing life

life

Question: Who got something?

you

you ’ve


This is the story of how Danny Rubin wrote Groundhog Day not once but twice — maybe more times than that , but who ’s counting .

Question: Who wrote something?

Danny Rubin

Question: What did someone write?

Groundhog Day

Question: When did someone write something?

not once but twice

Question: Who ’s doing something?

Danny Rubin

Groundhog Day

Question: What does someone ’s?

counting


It ’s unusual for any artist to live so long under the shadow of a single work , let alone a story that is itself intimately concerned with limits and repetition .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

unusual

Question: Who lives?

any artist

artist

Question: How does someone live?

Question: Where is something let?

alone

Question: What is let?

a story


It ’s more unusual still for an artist to return to that story in another medium for an encore nearly three decades later .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

more unusual

more unusual still

Question: Who returns?

an artist

Question: What does someone return to?

that story

Question: Where does someone return to something?

in another medium

Question: When does someone return to something?

nearly three decades later


Yet here Rubin is , in a Broadway theater , listening to his words echo , again and again and again , into the dark .

Question: Who is listening to something?

Rubin

Question: Where is someone listening to something?

in a Broadway theater

Question: What is someone listening to?

his words

Question: What echoes?

his words

words

Question: How is something echoed?

into the dark


He does n’t remember how the idea first came to him .

Question: Who remembers something?

He

Question: What does someone remember?

how the idea first came to him

Question: What came to something?

the idea

Question: Who did something come to?

him


Rubin gets ideas the way some people take drugs — in wee fistfuls .

Question: Who gets something?

Rubin

Question: What does someone get?

ideas

Question: How does someone get something?

the way some people take drugs

Question: Who takes something?

some people

people

Question: What does someone take?

drugs


When this particular batch hit him , he wrote down ten of the best ones in a list .

Question: What hit someone?

this particular batch

Question: Who did something hit?

him

Question: When did someone write up something?

When this particular batch hit him

Question: Who wrote up something?

he

Question: What did someone write up?

ten of the best ones in a list


It was the late ’80s , and Rubin was living in Chicago , turning out scripts for industrial films .

Question: Who was living somewhere?

Rubin

Question: Where was someone living?

in Chicago

Chicago

Question: Who was turning up something?

Rubin

Question: Where did someone turn up something?

Chicago

Question: What was turned?

scripts

Question: What did someone turn up?

scripts for industrial films


He once spent two days working the front counter of the country ’s most productive McDonald ’s so he could write a video showing other McDonald ’s workers how to shave seconds off their time with each customer .

Question: Who spent something?

He

Question: What did someone spend?

two days

Question: Who was working?

He

Question: How long was someone working?

two days

Question: What was someone working?

the front counter of the country

Question: Who writes something?

He

Question: Who can write something?

he

Question: What can someone write?

a video

Question: What shows something?

a video

Question: What is being shown?

Question: Who shaves something?

workers

Question: What is being shaved?

seconds


It was n’t glorious , but at least he was being paid for writing .

Question: Who was paid?

he

Question: Why was someone paid?

for writing

Question: What was someone paid for?

writing


Still , he wanted to try writing real screenplays .

Question: Who wanted to do something?

he

Question: What did someone want?

to try writing real screenplays

Question: What did someone want to do?

try writing real screenplays

Question: Who tried something?

he

Question: What did someone try  doing?

writing real screenplays

Question: Who write something?

he

Question: What was being written?

real screenplays


So he made a list of his ten best ideas .

Question: Who made something?

he

Question: What did someone myek?

a list of his ten best ideas


No . 2 was a Hitchcockian thriller about a murder in the deaf community ; he called it Silencer .

Question: Who called something?

he

Question: What did someone call something?

it

Silencer


An agent got interested and that script sold , and a version of it eventually became the decidedly un - Hitchcockian Marlee Matlin vehicle

Question: Who got something?

An agent

Question: What did someone get?

interested

Question: What was sold?

that script

script

Question: What became something?

a version of it

Question: When did something become something?

eventually

Question: What did something become?


Question: What is being heard?

No Evil


Rubin moved his family to L.A. His agent said , “ Get me a writing sample , ” so Rubin went back to his list .

Question: Who moved something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone move?

his family

Question: Where did someone move something?

to L.A.

L.A.

Question: Who said something?

His agent

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who get something?

Rubin

Question: Who is being gotten?

me

Question: What is someone get?

a writing sample

Question: Who went somewhere?

Rubin

Question: Where did someone go?

back to his list


Idea No . 10 on the list was “ A man lives the same day over and over . ”

Question: Who lives?

A man

Question: When does someone live?

the same day over and over


He was n’t the first to think of this premise .

Question: Who thought of something?

He

Question: What did someone think of?

this premise


The idea of reiterating the same stretch of time goes at least as far back as a 1904 short story by a British military strategist , in which a man dreams his way through the same battle , again and again .

Question: What is being reiterated?

the same stretch of time

Question: What goes?

Question: Where does something go?

Question: Who dreams something?

a man

Question: What does someone dream?

his way through the same battle


In 1973 , an American named Richard A. Lupoff published a short book titled 12:01 P.M. about a man stuck in a “ disfiguration of time . ”

Question: When was someone named something?

In 1973

Question: Who was named something?

an American

Question: What was someone named?

Richard A. Lupoff

Question: When did someone publish something?

In 1973

Question: Who published something?

an American named Richard A. Lupoff

Richard A. Lupoff

Question: What did someone publish?

a short book

a short book titled 12:01 P.M.

Question: What was titled something?

a short book

Question: What was something titled?

12:01 P.M.

Question: Who was stuck in something?

a man

Question: How was someone stuck?

in a “ disfiguration of time

Question: What was someone stuck in?

a “ disfiguration of time


( Lupoff briefly pursued legal action against Columbia Pictures after Groundhog Day came out , but the lawsuit was never formally filed . )

Question: Who pursued something?

Lupoff

Question: How did someone pursue something?

briefly

Question: What did someone pursue?

legal action

Question: Who did someone pursue something against?

Columbia Pictures

Question: When did someone pursue something?

after Groundhog Day came out

Question: What came up?

Groundhog Day

Question: What wasn't be filed?

the lawsuit

Question: How wasn't something be filed?

formally


Rubin had never read either of these , and he did n’t care how his protagonist had come to be trapped in February 2 — a date he chose in the hope that the movie might become a holiday cable perennial , the way It ’s a Wonderful Life was broadcast every Christmas .

Question: Who didn't read something?

Rubin

Question: What didn't someone read?

either of these

Question: Who cared something?

Rubin

he

n’t

Question: What did someone care?

Question: Who came to do something?

his protagonist

Question: What did someone come to do?

to be trapped

be trapped

Question: When did someone come to do something?

in February 2

Question: Who was trapped?

his protagonist

Question: When was someone trapped?

in February 2

February 2

Question: Who chose something?

Rubin

he

Question: What did someone choose?

Question: What will become something?

the movie

Question: What might something become?

a holiday cable perennial

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

a Wonderful Life

Question: What was broadcast?

a Wonderful Life

Question: When was something broadcast?

every Christmas


Rubin was more interested in what would happen to a man stuck reliving the same day over and over .

Question: What did something will?

happen

Question: Who would something happen to?

a man

Question: What would something happen to?

Question: Who was stuck?

a man

Question: How was someone stuck?

reliving the same day over and over

Question: Who was reliving something?

a man

Question: What was someone reliving?

the same day

the same day over and over


Question: Who will something?

he

Question: What does someone will?

go crazy

Question: Who goes something?

he

Question: How does someone go?

crazy


Question: What is something falling to?

his worst impulses


How many lifetimes would it take for someone to truly change ?

Question: What would something?

lifetimes

Question: What did something will?

it

Question: What take?

lifetimes

it

Question: Who will something take for?

someone to truly change

Question: Who changes?

someone


He thought about the possibilities for a while .

Question: Who thought about something?

He

Question: What did someone thinke?

about the possibilities for a while

Question: What did someone thinke about?

the possibilities for a while


Then he powered through drafting the script in four days and sent it off to his agent .

Question: Who powered into something?

he

Question: What did someone power into?

drafting the script

Question: When did someone power somewhere?

in four days

Question: Who was drafting something?

he

Question: What was someone drafting?

the script

Question: When was someone drafting something?

in four days

Question: Who sent something?

he

Question: What did someone send?

it

Question: Who did someone send something on?

his agent


Ramis , who wrote and co - starred in Ghostbusters , found the script and was hired to direct it , and he cast Bill Murray to star in it .

Question: Who wrote something?

Ramis

Question: Who starred?

Ramis

Question: Where did someone star?

in Ghostbusters

Question: What did someone star in?

Ghostbusters

Question: Who founded something?

Ramis

Question: What did someone found?

the script

Question: Who was hired?

Ramis

Question: What was hired?

the script

Question: Why was someone hired?

to direct it

Question: What was someone hired to do?

direct it

Question: Who directed something?

Ramis

Question: What did someone direct?

the script

it

Question: Who cast someone?

Ramis

he

Question: Who did someone cast?

Bill Murray

Question: Why did someone cast someone?

to star in it

Question: What did someone cast someone to do?

star in it

Question: Who starred?

Ramis

Bill Murray

Question: What did someone star in?

it


Rubin spent weeks revising it , first with Ramis , then with Murray — the two of them throwing ideas back and forth , hanging out in Punxsutawney , Pennsylvania — and then it went back to Ramis , who defended it from the studio ’s worst impulses , such as inserting a scene where the main character , Phil Connors , gets cursed by a gypsy .

Question: Who spent something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone spend?

weeks

Question: Who was revising something?

Rubin

Question: When was someone revising something?

weeks

Question: What was someone revising?

it

Question: Who was throwing something?

Rubin

Murray

the two of them

Question: What was someone throwing?

ideas

Question: How was someone throwing something?

back and forth

Question: Who hung somewhere?

Rubin

Question: Who was hanging?

Murray

Question: Where is someone hanging up?

in Punxsutawney , Pennsylvania

Question: Where did someone hang?

Punxsutawney , Pennsylvania

Question: Who went somewhere?

Rubin

Question: What went somewhere?

it

Question: Where did something go?

back to Ramis

Question: Who defended something?

Rubin

Ramis

Question: What did someone defend?

it

Question: Where did someone defend something?

from the studio

Question: Where did someone defend something from?

the studio

Question: Who inserted something?

Rubin

Question: What was inserted?

a scene

Question: Who gets something?

Phil Connors

Question: What does someone get?

cursed

cursed by a gypsy

Question: Who does someone get something by?

a gypsy

Question: Who is cursed?

Phil Connors

Question: Who is someone cursed by?

a gypsy


Then they filmed it , and it was a hit .

Question: Who filmed something?

they

Question: What did someone film?

it


For Rubin , working with Ramis and Murray was n’t intimidating as much as reassuring : It felt like Hollywood had recognized him for who he was , like it had realized what he could do .

Question: Who was working?

Rubin

Question: Who was someone working with?

Ramis and Murray

Question: What was intimidated?

n’t

Question: How was someone intimidating?

as much as reassuring

Question: Who was reassured?

Rubin

Ramis and Murray

Question: What was reassured?

Question: What felted?

It

Question: What did something felt?

Question: Who had recognized someone?

Hollywood

Question: Who did someone recognize?

him

Question: Why did someone recognize someone?

for who he was

Question: What did someone recognize someone for?

who he was

Question: What has realized something?

it

Question: What did someone realize?

what he could do


“ It was like , ‘ Finally,’ ” he says now .

Question: Who says something?

he

Question: When does someone say something?

now


Question: Who belong.’ something?

I


Question: What didn't happen?

it

Question: When did someone happened?

never


After the film Groundhog Day was a success , Rubin started getting calls to work on scripts .

Question: When did someone start doing something?

Question: Who started doing something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone start  doing?

getting calls

getting calls to work on scripts

Question: When was someone getting something?

Question: Who was getting something?

Rubin

Question: What was someone getting?

calls

Question: Why was someone getting something?

to work on scripts

Question: When did someone work on something?

Question: Who worked on something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone work on?

scripts


He was now a known quantity — he was the guy who wrote Groundhog Day — and all producers seemingly wanted was for him to write the same movie again .

Question: What was known?

quantity

Question: Who wrote something?

he

the guy

Question: What did someone write?

Groundhog Day

Question: Who wanted something?

all producers

producers

Question: What did someone want?

for him to write the same movie again

Question: Who wrote something?

him

Question: What did someone write?

the same movie

the same movie again


Maybe something with a time warp or a weatherman .


“ They ’d say , ‘ Just write something normal and it ’ll come out Danny Rubin–

Question: Who ’d something?

They

Question: Who says something?

They

Question: What does someone say?

Question: What is being written?

something normal

Question: What is being ’ll?

it

Question: What comes up?

it ’ll

’ll

Question: What does something come up?

Danny Rubin–


Question: What is ’ll?

It

Question: What is being ’ll?

great,’

Question: What is great,’?

’ll

Question: Who says something?

he


“ But I do n’t want to write something normal !

Question: Who wants to do something?

I

n’t

Question: What does someone want?

to write something normal

Question: What does someone want to do?

write something normal

Question: Who writes something?

I

Question: What does someone write?

something normal


It ’s messing with the premise and the structure that makes it exciting ! ”

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

messing

Question: What is messing with something?

It

Question: What is something messing with?

the premise

Question: What makes something?

the structure

Question: What does something make something?

exciting


Rubin made a list of his ten best ideas .

Question: Who made something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone myek?

a list of his ten best ideas


No . 10 was “ A man lives the same day over and over again . ”

Question: Who lives?

A man

Question: When does someone live?

the same day

the same day over and over again


It did n’t help that he ’d moved his family to Santa Fe , New Mexico , before Groundhog Day had even finished shooting .

Question: What helped something?

It

n’t

Question: What did someone help?

Question: Who ’d something?

he

Question: Where did someone ’d something?

Santa Fe , New Mexico

Question: What moved something?

’d

Question: What did someone move?

his family

Question: Where did someone move something?

to Santa Fe , New Mexico

Santa Fe , New Mexico

Question: What has finished something?

Groundhog Day

Question: What did someone finish?

shooting

Question: Who was shooting?

Groundhog Day


At first , L.A. tried to woo him back , regularly flying him into town .

Question: When did someone try to do something?

At first

Question: Who tried to do something?

L.A.

Question: What did someone try?

to woo him back

Question: What did someone try to do?

woo him back

Question: When did someone woo someone?

At first

Question: Who wooed someone?

L.A.

Question: Who did someone woo?

him

Question: Who flew someone?

L.A.

Question: Who was flying?

him

Question: When did someone fly somewhere?

regularly

Question: Who did someone fly?

him

Question: Where was someone flown?

into town


Rubin ’s brother Michael , who also worked in Hollywood , knew how this was supposed to go : “ They want to meet you for lunch at the Ivy and they want to think you ’re a totally fun guy , ” he says .

Question: Who worked somewhere?

Michael

Question: Where did someone work?

in Hollywood

Question: What did someone work in?

Hollywood

Question: Who knew something?

Rubin ’s brother Michael

Michael

Question: What did someone know?

how this was supposed to go

Question: What was supposed?

this

Question: What was something supposed to do?

to go

go

Question: Who went?

Michael

Question: What went?

this

Question: Who wants to do something?

They

Question: What does someone want?

to meet you for lunch

to meet you for lunch at the Ivy

Question: Who meets someone?

They

Question: Who is being met?

you

Question: Why does someone meet someone?

for lunch

Question: What does someone meet someone for?

lunch

Question: Where is someone meeting someone?

at the Ivy

Question: Who wants to do something?

Michael

they

Question: What does someone want?

to think you ’re a totally fun guy

Question: What does someone want to do?

think you ’re a totally fun guy

Question: Who thinks something?

Michael

they

Question: What does someone think?

you ’re a totally fun guy

Question: Who ’re something?

you

Question: What does someone ’re?

a totally fun guy

Question: Who says something?

he


“ You get in the door because you wrote a hit movie , but they want to see you as a guy they can play with . ”

Question: Who gets in something?

You

Question: Where does someone get?

in the door

Question: Why does someone get somewhere?

because you wrote a hit movie

Question: Who wrote something?

you

Question: What did someone write?

a hit movie

Question: Who wants to do something?

they

Question: What does someone want?

to see you as a guy they can play with

Question: What does someone want to do?

see you as a guy they can play with

Question: Who sees someone?

You

they

Question: Who does someone see?

you

Question: How does someone see someone?

as a guy they can play with

Question: What does someone see someone as?

a guy they can play with

Question: Who can play?

you

a guy

they


Question: Who would something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone will?

n’t play

Question: Who will play?

Rubin

Question: Who play?

n’t


“ It would be like , Goldie Hawn has a dysfunctional family , none of them get along , so they go camping and in the end they all learn to love each other , ” Rubin recalls .

Question: What will to do something?

It

Question: Who gets?

Goldie Hawn

Question: Who gets somewhere?

none of them

Question: Where does someone get?

along

Question: Who goes somewhere?

Goldie Hawn

they

Question: Where does someone go?

camping

Question: Who is camping?

Goldie Hawn

they

Question: Who learns to do something?

Goldie Hawn

they

Question: What does someone learn?

to love each other

Question: What does someone learn to do?

love each other

Question: Who loves someone?

Goldie Hawn

they

Question: Who does someone love?

each other

Question: Who recalls something?

Rubin


“ Typically I would say , ‘ Okay , I am going to tell you your movie.’ ”

Question: Who will something?

I

Question: What does someone will?

say

Question: Who would say something?

I

Question: What would someone say?

Question: Who is going?

I

Question: Who tells someone something?

I

Question: Who does someone tell something?

you

Question: What does someone tell someone?

your movie.’


He ’d lay out a perfectly respectable studio picture , with a three - act structure and a conventional conclusion .

Question: Who ’d something?

He

Question: What lays up something?

He ’d

Question: What does someone lay up?

a perfectly respectable studio picture


“ And then I ’d say , ‘ Under no circumstances am I going to write that movie.’ ”

Question: Who ’d something?

I

Question: What does someone ’d?

say

say , ‘

Question: Who says something?

I

Question: What does someone say?

Question: Who is going?

I

Question: What is someone going to do?

write

write that

Question: Who is writing something?

I

Question: What is someone write?

that


Question: Who sighs?

He


“ It took me years to understand that ’s why the business started disappearing . ”

Question: What took something?

It

Question: What did something tyek?

me years

Question: What did something tyek someone to do?

Question: How did someone understand something?

years

Question: What did someone understand?

Question: What is ’s?

why the business started disappearing

Question: What started doing something?

the business

Question: What did something start  doing?

disappearing

Question: What was disappearing?

the business


Most people in this situation either quit the screenplay business or learn to compromise .

Question: Who quits something?

Most people

Most people in this situation

Question: What does someone quit?

the screenplay business

Question: Who learns to do something?

Most people

Most people in this situation

Question: What does someone learn?

to compromise

Question: What does someone learn to do?

compromise

Question: Who compromises?

Most people

Most people in this situation


He kept writing scripts for his own ideas , and he kept selling them , pretty steadily , over the years — to Universal , to Amblin , to Castle Rock , to Miramax .

Question: Who kept doing something?

He

Question: What did someone keep  doing?

writing scripts

writing scripts for his own ideas

Question: Who was writing something?

He

Question: What was someone writing?

scripts

Question: What was someone writing something for?

his own ideas

Question: Who kept doing something?

He

he

Question: What did someone keep?

selling them

Question: When did someone keep something?

over the years

Question: Who was selling something?

He

he

Question: What was someone selling?

them

Question: When was someone selling something?

over the years


But none of them were produced , and even when one of them spent some time being developed , Rubin would often be booted off the project .

Question: What was produced?

none of them

Question: Who spent something?

one of them

Question: What did someone spend?

some time

Question: Who was developed?

one of them

Question: What was developed?

some time

Question: Who would something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone will?

often be booted off the project

be booted off the project

Question: Who has be booted?

Rubin

Question: How wasn't someone be booted?

off the project

Question: What is someone be booted into?

the project


He wrote a movie about a woman ; they asked if it could be about a man .

Question: Who wrote something?

He

Question: What did someone write?

a movie

Question: Who asked something?

He

they

Question: What did someone aske?

if it could be about a man


He wrote a silent film ; they asked if it could have dialogue .

Question: Who wrote something?

He

Question: What did someone write?

a silent film

Question: Who asked something?

He

they

Question: What did someone aske?

if it could have dialogue


“ People were n’t responding to my stuff by making movies out of it , ” he says .

Question: Who was responding to something?

People

n’t

Question: What was someone responding to?

my stuff

Question: How was someone responding to something?

by making movies out of it

Question: Who made something?

People

Question: What was made?

movies

Question: Who says something?

he


“ They were optioning it , but then there were the same arguments over and over : They were trying to make a movie I said I was expressly not interested in making . ”

Question: Who was optioning something?

They

Question: What was someone optioning?

it

Question: Who was trying to do something?

They

Question: What was someone trying to do?

to make a movie

make a movie

Question: Who made something?

They

Question: What was made?

a movie

Question: Who said something?

I

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What was made?

a movie

Question: Who was make something?

I


Tim Minchin , who composed the songs for Groundhog Day the musical , puts it more succinctly :

Question: Who composed something?

Tim Minchin

Question: What did someone compose?

the songs for Groundhog Day

Question: What did someone compose something for?

the musical

Question: Who puts something?

Tim Minchin

Question: What does someone put?

it

Question: How does someone put something?

more succinctly


Rubin , he says , “ refused to write to their fucking specs . ”

Question: Who says something?

Rubin

he

Question: What does someone say?

Question: Who refused to do something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone refuse to do?

to write to their fucking specs

write to their fucking specs

Question: Who didn't write to something?

Rubin

Question: What didn't someone write to?

their fucking specs


Rubin ’s daughter , Maida , was a kid back then , but she remembers her dad ’s Hollywood travails .

Question: Who remembers something?

Maida

she

Question: What does someone remember?

her dad ’s Hollywood travails


“ It seemed true of all his projects that they would take out the part he found interesting , ” she says .

Question: What seemed something?

It

Question: What did something seem?

true

true of all his projects

Question: Who would something?

they

Question: What did someone will?

take out the part he found interesting

Question: Who would take up something?

they

Question: What would someone take up?

the part he found interesting

Question: Who founded something?

he

Question: What did someone found?

interesting

Question: Who says something?

she


“ They just wanted it to be more like something they already knew . ”

Question: Who wanted something?

They

Question: What did someone want?

it

Question: What did someone want something to do?

Question: What did someone know?

something

Question: Who knew something?

they


Even as Rubin continued to not make films , Groundhog Day became a proportionally bigger and bigger part of his résumé — and of pop culture at large .

Question: Who continued to do something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone continue?

to not make films

Question: What did someone continue to do?

not make films

Question: Who didn't make something?

Rubin

Question: What didn't someone make?

films

Question: What became something?

Groundhog Day

Question: What did something become?


The film had been a solid success when it came out but not a phenomenon ; Roger Ebert gave it three stars .

Question: What came up?

The film

Question: What came?

it

Question: Who gave something something?

Roger Ebert

Question: What did someone give something?

it

three stars


But as years passed , it seemed to gain resonance .

Question: What passed?

years

Question: When did something seem to do something?

as years passed

Question: What seemed to do something?

it

Question: What did something seem to do?

to gain resonance

gain resonance

Question: When did something gain something?

as years passed

Question: What gained something?

it

Question: What did something gain?

resonance


The idea of a time loop became a standard trope in movies and television , and the term “ Groundhog Day ” itself became vernacular for any experience that seemed endlessly to repeat .

Question: What became something?

The idea of a time loop

Question: What did something become?

a standard trope

Question: What became something?

the term “ Groundhog Day ”

Question: What did something become?

vernacular

Question: Why did something become something?

Question: What seemed?

any experience

experience

Question: How did something seem?

endlessly to repeat

Question: What was repeated?

any experience

experience


Rubin ’s friends would call him up excitedly whenever they heard someone use it , until it became so common that they had to stop .

Question: Who will something?

friends

Question: What does someone will  do?

call him up excitedly

Question: Who would call someone?

Rubin

friends

Question: Who would someone call?

him

Question: How would someone call someone?

excitedly

Question: When will someone call someone?

whenever they heard someone use it

Question: Who heard something?

Rubin

they

Question: What did someone hear?

someone use it

Question: Who used something?

Rubin

someone

Question: What did someone use?

it

Question: What became something?

it

Question: What did something become?

so common

Question: Who stopped?

Rubin

they


People kept writing to Rubin to tell him what his movie was about .

Question: Who kept doing something?

People

Question: What did someone keep  doing?

writing to Rubin

Question: Why did someone keep to do something?

to tell him what his movie was about

Question: Who was writing?

People

Question: Who did someone write to?

Rubin

Question: Why was someone writing to something?

to tell him what his movie was about

Question: Who told someone something?

People

Rubin

Question: Who did someone tell something?

him

Question: What did someone tell someone?

what his movie was about


A monk saw it as a Christian allegory ; a Kabbalist analyzed the significance of its numerology .

Question: Who saw something?

A monk

Question: What did someone see?

it

Question: How did someone see something?

as a Christian allegory

Question: What did someone see something as?

a Christian allegory

Question: Who analyzed something?

a Kabbalist

Question: What did someone analyze?

the significance of its numerology


Philosophy students wrote dissertations about Groundhog Day and Nietzsche ’s concept of the “ eternal recurrence . ”

Question: Who wrote something?

Philosophy students

Question: What did someone write?

dissertations


An economist published a column claiming that the film “ illustrates the importance of the Mises - Hayek paradigm as an alternative to equilibrium economics by illustrating the unreal nature of equilibrium theorizing . ”

Question: Who published something?

An economist

Question: What did someone publish?

a column

Question: Who claimed something?

An economist

Question: What claimed something?

a column

Question: What did something claime?

Question: What illustrates something?

the film “

Question: What does something illustrate?

Question: How does something illustrate something?

Question: What is being illustrated?

Question: What is being theorized?

the unreal nature of equilibrium

equilibrium


Addicts told Rubin that the film had helped them realize they were trapped in Punxsutawneys of their own making .

Question: Who told something something?

Addicts

Question: Who did someone tell something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone tell someone?

Question: What has helped something?

the film

Question: Who has something helped?

them

Question: What did something help someone  do?

Question: What realized something?

the film

Question: Who realized something?

them

Question: What did someone realize?

Question: Who was trapped?

they

Question: Where was someone trapped?

in Punxsutawneys

in Punxsutawneys of their own making


The letters and phone calls and emails would reach a crescendo every February 2 , a day when Rubin would hear not only from strangers and fans but from his own friends and family .

Question: What would to do something?

The letters and phone calls and emails

Question: What did something will to do?

reach a crescendo

Question: When did something will something?

every February 2

Question: What would reach something?

The letters and phone calls and emails

Question: What would something reach?

a crescendo

Question: When will something reach something?

every February 2

Question: Who would something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone will?

hear

Question: When would someone hear someone?

every February 2

Question: Who would hear someone?

Rubin

Question: What would someone hear?


Someone — he never found out who — for years left him little presents , balloons or candy or a toy groundhog , on his porch in Santa Fe .

Question: Who didn't have founded up something?

Someone

Question: Who has have founded up something?

he

Question: What didn't someone found up?

Question: Who left something?

he

Question: Who did someone leave something?

him

Question: What did someone leave someone?

little presents

Question: Where did someone leave something?

on his porch in Santa Fe


Question: What ’s?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

like my birthday

Question: Who says something?

he


You could imagine a version of this story in which Rubin is bitter .

Question: Who can imagine something?

You

Question: What can someone imagine?

a version of this story


“ He ’s got every reason to have an antagonistic relationship with this beast , ” says Matthew Warchus , who directed the musical .

Question: Who ’s something?

He

Question: Who got something?

He

Question: What did someone get?

Question: Who says something?

Matthew Warchus

Question: Who directed something?

Matthew Warchus

Question: What did someone direct?

the musical


Minchin agrees : “ One can assume that , Groundhog Day being so far and away his greatest success , it would cast a huge shadow over him , ” he says .

Question: Who agrees something?

Minchin

Question: What does someone agree?

Question: Who can assume something?

One

Question: What can someone assume?

Question: What will doing something?

Groundhog Day

Question: What will something?

it

Question: What did something will?

cast a huge shadow over him

Question: What would cast something?

Groundhog Day

it

Question: What would something cast?

a huge shadow

Question: Who would something be cast from?

him

Question: Who says something?

Minchin

he


Rubin himself will concede only the slightest negativity .

Question: Who would concede something?

Rubin

Rubin himself

Question: What would someone concede?

only the slightest negativity

the slightest negativity


“ I was always thinking , I ’m not a one - hit wonder , I ’m not a one - hit wonder ! ”

Question: Who was thinking?

I

Question: When was someone thinking?

always

Question: What was someone thinking?

Question: Who ’m something?

I

Question: What does someone ’m?

not a one - hit wonder

Question: Who ’m something?

I

Question: What does someone ’m?

not a one - hit wonder


Question: Who says something?

he


Question: Who laughs?

he


“ But even if I am — okay , that ’s more than most people get . ”

Question: What ’s something?

that

Question: What does something ’s?

more than most people get

Question: Who gets something?

most people

people


At some point , he started leaning into it .

Question: When did someone start doing something?

At some point

Question: Who started something?

he

Question: What did someone start  doing?

leaning into it

Question: When was someone leaning?

At some point

Question: Who was leaning?

he

Question: What was someone leaning into?

it


In 2005 , Ebert published a new review of Groundhog Day , upgrading it to four stars .

Question: When did someone publish something?

In 2005

Question: Who published something?

Ebert

Question: What did someone publish?

a new review of Groundhog Day

Question: When was something upgraded?

In 2005

Question: Who upgraded something?

Ebert

Question: What was upgraded?

a new review of Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

it

Question: What was something upgraded to?

four stars


In 2007 , Rubin started a blog — Blogus Groundhogus — where he answered questions from fans and posted fictional dialogues between himself and Phil Connors , now retired from the weather business and living on a mountainside near Taos .

Question: When did someone start something?

In 2007

Question: Who started something?

Rubin

Question: What did someone start?

a blog — Blogus Groundhogus

a blog — Blogus Groundhogus —

Question: When did someone answere something?

In 2007

Question: Who answered something?

Rubin

he

Question: What did someone answere?

questions

Question: Who did someone answere something from?

fans

Question: When did someone post something?

In 2007

Question: Who posted something?

Rubin

he

Question: What did someone post?

fictional dialogues

Question: Who was retired?

Rubin

Question: When was someone retired?

now

Question: What was someone retired from?

the weather business

Question: Who was living?

Rubin

Question: Where was someone living?

on a mountainside near Taos

Question: What is someone living on?

a mountainside near Taos


At his brother ’s suggestion , he published an ebook on screenwriting , called How to Write “ Groundhog Day . ”

Question: Where did someone publish something?

At his brother ’s suggestion

Question: Who published something?

he

Question: What did someone publish?

an ebook on screenwriting

Question: Who was screenwriting?

he

Question: What was called something?

an ebook on screenwriting

Question: What was something called?

How to Write “ Groundhog Day

Question: What did someone write?

Question: What was written?

“ Groundhog Day


He ended up teaching screenwriting at Harvard for five years .

Question: Who ended up something?

He

Question: What did someone end up?

teaching screenwriting

teaching screenwriting at Harvard

Question: Where did someone end up something?

at Harvard

Question: How long did someone end up something?

for five years

Question: Who was screenwriting somewhere?

He

Question: Where was someone screenwriting?

at Harvard

Harvard

Question: How long was someone screenwriting somewhere?

for five years

five years


Every year , when February 2 came around , he and his wife would invite over all their friends , push back the furniture , and dance .

Question: When did something come somewhere?

Every year

Question: What came?

February 2

Question: How did something come?

around

Question: When did someone will to do something?

Every year

when February 2 came around

Question: Who would something?

he and his wife

Question: What does someone will  doing?

invite over all their friends

Question: When would someone invite someone?

Every year

when February 2 came around

Question: Who would invite someone?

he and his wife

Question: Who would someone invite?

over all their friends

all their friends

Question: When does someone push?

Every year

Question: Who pushes something?

he and his wife

Question: What is being pushed?

the furniture


But the story does not end there , because it is also a love story .

Question: What doesn't end?

the story

Question: Where doesn't something end?

there

Question: Why doesn't something end?

because it is also a love story


That ’s where Minchin and Warchus come in .

Question: What ’s something?

That

Question: What does something ’s?

where Minchin and Warchus come in

Question: Who comes somewhere?

Minchin and Warchus

Question: How does someone come?

in


In 2012 , they were fresh off the success of their first musical , Matilda , and they wanted Groundhog Day to be their next adaptation .

Question: When did someone want something?

In 2012

Question: Who wanted something?

they

Question: What did someone want?


Warchus knew that Rubin had been tinkering with a musical version of the film for years ( partly for fun ; partly because that was one of the rights he had n’t signed away to Columbia Pictures ) .

Question: Who knew something?

Warchus

Question: What did someone know?

Question: Who was tinkering?

Rubin

Question: What wasn't someone tinker with?

a musical version of the film

Question: How long has someone been tinkering with something?

for years

Question: Who signed somewhere?

Rubin

n’t

Question: Who signed something?

he

Question: Who did someone sign something to?

Columbia Pictures


But they had a hunch that Rubin had to be approached cautiously .

Question: Who was approached?

Rubin

Question: How was someone approached?

cautiously


“ We just knew , obviously , this story is incredibly important to Danny , ” Minchin says .

Question: Who knew something?

We

Question: What did someone know?

Question: Who says something?

Minchin


“ He was n’t going to trust just anyone with his baby . ”

Question: Who was going?

He

n’t

Question: What was someone going to do?

to trust just anyone with his baby

trust just anyone with his baby

Question: Who trusted someone?

He

Question: Who was trusted?

anyone

anyone with his baby


Minchin , a musician and stand - up comedian from Australia , made his name performing in bare feet and mascara , and in Rubin he immediately recognized a fellow eccentric .

Question: Who stands?

Minchin

Question: Where is someone standing?

Australia

Question: Who made something?

Minchin

Question: What did someone myek?

his name

Question: How did someone myek something?

performing in bare feet and mascara

Question: Who was performing?

Minchin

Question: How was someone performing?

in bare feet and mascara

Question: What was someone performing in?

bare feet and mascara

Question: Who recognized someone?

Minchin

he

Question: Where did someone recognize someone?

in Rubin

Rubin

Question: How did someone recognize someone?

immediately

Question: What did someone recognize?

a fellow eccentric


“ He ’s a beautiful guy and a one - in - a - trillion really , ” Minchin says .

Question: Who ’s something?

He

Question: What does someone ’s?

a beautiful guy

Question: Who says something?

Minchin


“ He ’s an incredibly gentle , sensitive guy , too good for the world he ended up in , too pure in his desire to write interesting things for Hollywood . ”

Question: Who ’s something?

He

Question: What does someone ’s?

an incredibly gentle , sensitive guy

Question: Who ended up something?

He

Question: What did someone end up?

the world

Question: Who ended up?

he

Question: Who wrote something?

He

Question: What is being written?

interesting things

Question: What did someone write?

interesting things for Hollywood

Question: Who is something being written for?

Hollywood


Question: Who courted someone?

they

Question: Who did someone court?

him


Warchus flew Rubin to London to see Matilda .

Question: Who flew somewhere?

Warchus

Question: Who did someone fly?

Rubin

Question: Where did someone fly someone?

to London

Question: Why did someone fly someone?

to see Matilda

Question: Who saw someone?

Warchus

Rubin

Question: Where did someone see someone?

London

Question: Who did someone see?

Matilda


Then he and Minchin collaborated speculatively with Rubin on the musical for years without asking for the rights , on the basis of a handshake .

Question: Who collaborated?

he and Minchin

Question: How did someone collaborate?

speculatively

without asking for the rights

Question: Who did someone collaborate with?

Rubin

Question: Where did someone collaborate?

on the musical

Question: How long did someone collaborate somewhere?

for years

Question: Who didn't aske for something?

he and Minchin

Question: What wasn't someone aske for?

the rights

Question: Why wasn't someone aske for something?

on the basis of a handshake


Minchin noticed that Rubin sometimes made jokes that did n’t seem funny .

Question: Who noticed something?

Minchin

Question: What did someone notice?

Question: Who made something?

Rubin

Question: When did someone myek something?

sometimes

Question: What did someone myek?

jokes

jokes that did n’t seem funny

Question: What seems something?

n’t

Question: What did something seem?

funny


“ Like joking comments that tell the truth , ” Minchin says , “ About how ‘ You ’ll just fire me off the project anyway’ — because that happens in Hollywood quite a lot . ”

Question: What is being joked?

comments

comments that tell the truth

Question: What tells something?

joking comments

comments

Question: What does something tell?

the truth

Question: Who says something?

Minchin

Question: What does someone say?

Question: Who ’ll something?

You

Question: Who fires someone?

You ’ll

’ll

Question: Who does someone fire?

me

Question: Why does someone fire someone somewhere?

Question: What happens?

that

Question: Where does something happen?

in Hollywood

Question: How does something happen somewhere?

quite a lot


Minchin got the sense that Rubin had been hurt by years of “ having people slightly fuck with him . ”

Question: Who got something?

Minchin

Question: What did someone get?

the sense that Rubin had been hurt

Question: Who has been hurt?

Rubin

Question: How has someone been hurt?

Question: What has someone been hurt by?


Typically I ’d say , ‘ I am going to tell you your movie.’

Question: Who ’d something?

I

Question: What does someone ’d?

say

Question: Who says something?

I

Question: What does someone say?

Question: Who is going?

I

Question: Who tells someone something?

I

Question: Who does someone tell something?

you

Question: What does someone tell someone?

your movie.’


Then I ’d say , ‘ Under no circumstances am I going to write that movie.’

Question: Who ’d something?

I

Question: What does someone ’d?

say

say , ‘

Question: Who says something?

I

Question: What does someone say?

Question: Who is going?

I

Question: What is someone going to do?

write

write that movie.’

Question: Who is writing something?

I

Question: What is someone write?

that movie.’


Finally , he says , he took Rubin aside .

Question: Who says something?

he

Question: What does someone say?

he took Rubin aside

Question: Who took something?

he

Question: What did someone tyek?

Rubin

Question: How did someone tyek someone?

aside


Question: Who said something?

I

Question: What did someone say?

Danny , look at me

Question: Who looks?

Danny

Question: Who is being looked at?

me


Sometime in the future soon , in the next two years , this will be onstage .


And you will be sitting next to me , watching what we made together .

Question: Who is sit somewhere?

you

Question: Where is someone sit?

next to me

Question: Why is someone sit somewhere?

watching what we made together

Question: Who is watching something?

you

Question: What is someone watching?

what we made together

Question: Who made something?

we

Question: How did someone myek something?

together


Question: What ’s something?

That

Question: What does something ’s?

what ’s going to happen

Question: What is ’s to do something?

’s

Question: What is something ’s to do?

happen

Question: What goes?

’s


So you have to trust me that you ’re going to be there , of course , because it ’s yours … you ’re going to be there if you like it or not.’

Question: Who trusts someone?

you

Question: Who is being trusted?

me

Question: What does someone trust someone?

that you ’re going to be there

Question: Who ’re something?

you

Question: Who is going?

you ’re

’re

Question: What is someone going to do?

to be there

be there

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

yours

Question: Who ’re something?

you

Question: Who is going?

you ’re

Question: What is someone going to do?

to be there

Question: Who likes something?

you

Question: What does someone like?

it


“ And that was the last time he made those jokes , ” Minchin says .

Question: Who made something?

he

Question: What did someone myek?

those jokes

Question: Who says something?

Minchin


In August 2016 , the musical opened in London to mostly rave reviews .

Question: When did something open somewhere?

In August 2016

August 2016

Question: What opened somewhere?

the musical

Question: Where did something open?

in London

Question: Why did something open somewhere?

to mostly rave reviews

Question: What did something open to?

mostly rave reviews

Question: When did someone rave something?

In August 2016

August 2016

Question: What raved something?

the musical

Question: Where was something raved?

in London

London

Question: What was raved?

reviews


For Rubin , the process of writing Groundhog Day for the second ( maybe third ? ) time was a kind of vindication , a do - over .

Question: Who is writing something?

Rubin

Question: What is being written?

Groundhog Day

Question: Why is something being written?

for the second ( maybe third ? ) time


Where Hollywood had mostly disposed of him by the time shooting began on the film , Minchin and Warchus saw him as a vital component all the way through workshops , rehearsals , and opening night .

Question: Who disposed?

Hollywood

Question: How did someone dispose?

mostly

Question: Who did someone dispose of?

him

Question: When did someone dispose of something?

by the time shooting began on the film

Question: What began?

shooting

Question: Where did something begin?

on the film

Question: What did something begin on?

the film

Question: Who saw someone?

Minchin and Warchus

Question: Who did someone see?

him

Question: How did someone see someone?

as a vital component

Question: What did someone see someone as?

a vital component


“ In theater , the writer is supposed to be a participant .

Question: Where is someone supposed to do something?

In theater

Question: Who is supposed to do something?

the writer

Question: What is someone supposed to do?

to be a participant

be a participant


In fact , the writer is a primary participant , ” Rubin says .

Question: Who says something?

Rubin


“ So if you ’re a writer who ’s spent 20 years being sidelined , to be allowed to be at the big - boy table — it was very satisfying . ”

Question: Who ’re something?

you

a writer

Question: Who ’s something?

a writer

Question: What does someone ’s?

spent 20 years

Question: Who spent something?

a writer

Question: What did someone spend?

20 years

Question: Who was sidelined?

a writer

Question: How long was someone sidelined?

20 years

Question: Who is allowed to do something?

a writer

Question: What is someone allowed to do?

to be at the big - boy table

Question: What was someone allowed to do?

be at the big - boy table


“ He ’s really getting another chance , ” his brother Michael says .

Question: Who ’s something?

He

Question: What does someone ’s?

really getting another chance

Question: Who is getting something?

He

Question: What is someone getting?

another chance

Question: Who says something?

his brother Michael

Michael


Go figure , he has made it , he ’s lived through that , and he ’s a better person and a cooler guy . ”

Question: How is someone going?

figure

Question: Who has made something?

he

Question: What has someone made?

it

Question: Who ’s something?

he

Question: What did someone ’s?

lived through that

Question: Who lived?

he

Question: Where did someone live?

through that

Question: What did someone live into?

that

Question: Who ’s something?

he

Question: What does someone ’s?

a better person and a cooler guy


“ It ’s ironic , of course , ” Minchin says , “ that for him , it has come round again and he has to relive this , has to relive this story of reliving stories . ”

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

ironic

Question: Who says something?

Minchin

Question: What does someone say?

Question: What has come?

it

Question: Where has something come?

round

Question: Who relives something?

Minchin

he

Question: What does someone relive?

this

Question: Who relives something?

Minchin

Question: What is being relived?

this story

this story of reliving stories

Question: Who is reliving something?

Minchin

Question: What is being relived?

stories


Question: What has happened?

Something


It ’s about 15 minutes into the first preview show , and the actors have suddenly vanished from the stage .

Question: What ’s?

It

Question: When does something ’s?

Question: Who has vanished?

the actors

Question: When has someone vanished?

suddenly

Question: Where did someone vanish?

from the stage

Question: Where has someone vanished from?

the stage


Question: Who murmurs?

The audience


Question: What drops?

The curtain


Question: What goes?

Minutes

Question: How does something go?

in silence


Finally , Warchus comes out to make an announcement : Inside the stage , the complex mechanism that powers the production ’s intricate onstage turntables — there are five of them , nestled within each other — has somehow broken down .

Question: Who comes somewhere?

Warchus

Question: Why does someone come somewhere?

to make an announcement

Question: What does someone come on to do?

make an announcement

Question: Who makes something?

Warchus

Question: What does someone make?

an announcement

Question: What powers something?

the complex mechanism

complex mechanism

Question: What does something power?

the production

Question: What is nestled?

five of them

Question: Where is something nestled?

within each other

Question: How has something been broken?

somehow


It ’s never happened before , and they do n’t know how to fix it .

Question: What ’s?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

never happened before

Question: When was something happened?

never

Question: When didn't something happen?

before

Question: Who knows something?

they

n’t

Question: What does someone know?

how to fix it

Question: Who fixes something?

they

Question: What is being fixt?

it


The rest of the musical will be performed with the cast sitting on the stage in a row of chairs , and everyone in the audience will get tickets to a second show .

Question: What is be performed?

The rest of the musical

Question: How is something be performed?

Question: Who is sitting?

the cast

Question: Where is someone sitting?

on the stage

Question: What is someone sitting on?

the stage

Question: Where is someone sitting somewhere?

in a row of chairs

Question: Who would get something?

everyone in the audience

Question: What would someone get?

tickets

tickets to a second show


The audience is , if anything , a little bit thrilled .


Question: What has been disrupted?

The usual


They ’re witnessing a one - off , an iteration of Groundhog Day that will never happen this way again .

Question: Who ’re something?

They

Question: Who is witnessing something?

They ’re

’re

Question: What is someone witnessing?

a one - off

Question: What is being witnessed?

an iteration of Groundhog Day

Question: What doesn't happen?

an iteration of Groundhog Day

Question: How doesn't something happen?

this way


They ’re now complicit in show - business history .

Question: Who ’re something?

They


When the evening ends , the cast is given a standing ovation .

Question: What ends?

the evening

Question: When is someone given something?

When the evening ends

Question: Who is given something?

the cast

Question: What is someone given?

a standing ovation


As for Rubin , he ’s smiling , beatific .

Question: Who ’s something?

Rubin

he

Question: What does someone ’s?

smiling , beatific

Question: Who is smiled?

Rubin

he


“ What a triumph , ” a stranger says to him .

Question: Who says to something?

a stranger

Question: Who does someone say to?

him


Question: Who hugs someone?

His friends

Question: Who does someone hug?

him


The technical breakdown does n’t bother him much ; he ’s not an easily bothered guy .

Question: What bothers someone?

The technical breakdown

n’t

Question: Who does something bother?

him

Question: How does something bother someone?

much

Question: Who ’s something?

he

Question: What does someone ’s?

not an easily bothered guy

Question: How was someone be bothered?

easily

Question: Who is be bothered?

guy


The one screenplay he wrote that he most wishes someone would make is called The Hanging Tale .

Question: What did someone write?

one screenplay

screenplay

Question: Who wrote something?

he

Question: Who wishes something?

he

Question: Who would something?

someone

Question: What did someone will?

make

Question: Who would make something?

someone

Question: What would someone make?

The Hanging Tale

Question: What is something called?

The Hanging Tale


It ’s a Scheherezade Western : A man is on the verge of being hanged , and they ask him for his final words .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

a Scheherezade Western

Question: Who is hanged?

A man

Question: Who asks someone?

A man

they

Question: Who does someone ask?

him

Question: Why does someone ask someone?

for his final words

Question: What does someone ask someone for?

his final words


He starts telling a story — the story becomes the bulk of the film , “ full of adventures and cliffhangers , ” Rubin said .

Question: Who starts doing something?

He

Question: What does someone start?

telling a story

Question: Who tells something?

He

Question: What does someone tell?

a story

Question: What becomes something?

the story

Question: What does something become?

the bulk of the film

Question: Who said something?

Rubin


“ And then you cut back to the hanging and it ’s night now and he ’s still standing there with the noose around his neck , and they ask , ‘ What next?’ ”

Question: Who cuts somewhere?

you

Question: Where does someone cut?

back to the hanging

Question: What does someone cut to?

the hanging

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

night

night now

Question: Who ’s something?

he

Question: Who is standing?

he

Question: Where is someone standing?

there

Question: How is someone standing somewhere?

with the noose around his neck

Question: Who asks something?

they

Question: What does someone ask?