You don’t initially see a full elephant at the Broadway musical “Water for Elephants.” It’s more like a tease. First come a pair of enormous ears. Then a trunk. And then the legs. It’s the execution of director Jessica Stone, who wanted to make it extra special for the audience when they finally get to see the big reveal.
FILE - Jessica Stone attends the Broadway opening night for “Water For Elephants” at The Imperial Theatre on Thursday, March 21, 2024, in New York. This image released by MurphyMade shows the cast of the musical “Water For Elephants” in New York. This image released by MurphyMade shows the cast of the musical “Water For Elephants” in New York. FILE - Jessica Stone attends the Broadway opening night for “Water For Elephants” at The Imperial Theatre on Thursday, March 21, 2024, in New York.
“It’s a very humble, disciplined, hard-working, loving cast,” she says. “I overuse this metaphor, but it couldn’t be more true: We literally and figuratively hold out our arms and catch each other.”Kecia Lewis in Broadway’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ delivers the soul and earns a Tony Award nominationPigPen Theater Co.
That took two years to develop, and Stone calls it “the gate to the rest of the show.” She credits producers for giving her team the time to create it and to figure out the way to marry Broadway timing to circus. “Water for Elephants,” framed as an elderly former circus worker fondly looking back, joins a raft of recent memory plays on Broadway like “Mother Play,”
“I really didn’t want people arbitrarily peeling off into back handsprings for no reason. It had to really honor his most, important memories,” Stone says.
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