Water for Elephants is a touring Broadway-scale musical adaptation of Sara Gruen’s novel that pairs a theatrical book with original music and lyrics to tell a Depression-era story set in a traveling circus. The production blends musical theatre with circus arts—including puppetry, aerial silks, acrobatics, and live physicality—and features a signature elephant puppet as a central piece of its stagecraft. The tour plays at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, mounting large-scale spectacle on the venue’s proscenium stage and attracting attention for its inventive staging and choreography.
