Following a very busy April, in which two dozen new shows opened to end the Tony Award-eligible season, a host of new musicals by debuting composers arrived, many of them adaptations of popular novels and their subsequent movie versions. * Water for Elephants — Who wouldn’t want to run away and join the circus, even one so ramshackle and cash-strapped as the … [Read more...]
Postcard from Broadway No. 2: ‘Elephants’ is a big winner
I arrived in a bracingly chilly New York this afternoon after an uneventful flight — always a plus. My first show of the trip was a solid winner, an unlikely stage musical version of Water for Elephants, based on the cult favorite 2006 novel by Sara Gruen and the subsequent 2011 movie version. I call it unlikely because a crucial character is a huge pachyderm named Rosie, … [Read more...]