Water For Elephants To Become Broadway Musical

An elephant never forgets, but the memory of Broadway is apparently somewhat shorter. Although some adaptations-movie-musical find success on the Great White Way, Water for Elephants is the last property for a musical adaptation, according to Variety. This time, however, farmers have acquired the rights to the novel 2006 by Sara Gruen, rather than the bland 2011 film starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson. And hey, Broadway actually has a pretty good track record of making books on music, as seen in the mega-hit adaptations like Wicked, Les Mis, and The Phantom of the Opera.



The musical adaptation of the novel by Gruen, which focuses on a love triangle set against the backdrop of a circus in 1930, it is still very early in the process. A production team is in place, led by the former president of Walt Disney Studios and producer Peter Schneider Elisabetta di Mambro, but no creative team, cast, or timeline has been announced yet. Before bringing water for elephants on stage, of course, you might want to consider the errors of Big Fish and Side Show, two circus-themed musical whose Broadway flop last races. You might also want to consider that elephants are very large.