Elephants

Review of ‘Water for Elephants’ on Broadway: The circus parts are good, the songs are average

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[ad_1] NEW YORK – The new Broadway musical “Water for elephants” It looks patched. In a good way. After all, the Benzini Brothers’ Depression-era traveling circus, where the show takes place, is not a top-shelf big top. The animals are malnourished and some may have a little mange. The artists are a very close-knit and … Read more

‘Water for Elephants’ Broadway Review: Big Top, Small Story

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[ad_1] Matthew Murphy Water for elephantsmusical, opening tonight at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre, is perhaps best seen as a redemptive attempt to adapt Sara Gruen’s popular 2006 historical romance novel into something, anything, to block the middling, bleak film from memory from 2011 starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon. It’s weak praise, to be sure, but … Read more