Gruen, Sara: *1969
Musical - Water for Elephants, 2023
- Book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co.
- World Premiere June 16, 2023: Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia. It opened at the Imperial Theatre, New York on March 21, 2024
- Original Broadway Cast Recording from May 17, 2024
Stream or download the full album - "The Lion Has Got No Teeth"
- Introduction
- Water For Elephants the Musical
- Water for Elephants Is Best When It’s Behind the Times: "Though the show puts its weight in the places that make narrative sense, they aren’t always the most rewarding ones." The Vulture; March 21, 2024
- Broadway Review: Big Top, Little Drama with videos: "The musical is perhaps best viewed as a redemptive attempt to adapt Sara Gruen’s popular 2006 historical romance novel into something, anything, to block from memory the middling, grim 2011 film." The Deadline; March 21, 2024
- Talk with PigPen Theatre Co about the creation of the musical. The Roundtable, Sarah LaDuke; March 20, 2024