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Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants Sets Closing Date on Broadway

The circus is nearing its end. Water for Elephants will play its final performance on December 8, 2024, at the Imperial Theatre. At the time of its final performance, the musical will have played 301 regular performances and 25 previews.

Water for Elephants stars Kyle Selig (Mean Girls), Isabelle McCalla (The Prom, Shucked), four-time Tony Award nominee Gregg Edelman (City of Angels), Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Award nominee Paul Alexander Nolan (Slave Play), Philippe Aymard (Cirque du Soleil’s Dralion), Stan Brown (“Homicide: Life in the Streets”), Sara Gettelfinger (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and Wade McCollum (Wicked) and features Brandon Block, Chita Rivera Award winner Antoine Boissereau, Paul Castree, Ken Wulf Clark, Taylor Colleton, Gabriel Olivera de Paula Costa, Samantha Gershman, Nicolas Jelmoni, Caroline Kane, Harley McLeish, Michael Mendez, Marina Mendoza, Meghane Poulet, Samuel Renaud, Marissa Rosen, Alexandra Gaelle Royer, Asa Somers, Charles South, Sean Stack, Matthew Varvar, Michelle West, and Conor Wild.

Why Water for Elephants Brought Kyle Selig Back to Broadway

The national tour of Water for Elephants will launch in Baltimore, MD at the Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center in the Fall of 2025. Additional cities will announce their engagements over the next several months.

Two-time Tony Award-nominated and Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning director Jessica Stone’s “huge, heart-filling” production (The New York Times) features a book by three-time Tony nominee Rick Elice adapted from Sara Gruen’s novel, and a soaring score by the acclaimed PigPen Theatre Co.

After losing what matters most, a young man jumps a moving train unsure of where the road will take him and finds a new home with the remarkable crew of a traveling circus, and a life—and love—beyond his wildest dreams. Seen through the eyes of his older self, his adventure becomes a poignant reminder that if you choose the ride, life can begin again at any age.

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