ContemporaryOpened 2024Runtime 2h 35m
Water for Elephants
Run away to the circus — with a full live acrobatic cast.
The show
About Water for Elephants
PigPen Theatre Co.'s circus-musical adaptation of Sara Gruen's Depression-era novel, threading aerial work, Rick Elice's book, and an onstage menagerie of puppet-animals into one three-ring night of theater.
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