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‘Water For Elephants’ Broadway Review: Big Top, Little Drama
Deadline's review of Broadway's 'Water For Elephants'
Water For Elephants, the musical opening tonight at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre, 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 starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon. But while The Notebook drags (and bores), Water For Elephants is a pleasant, visually beguiling show, with a cast, led by The Flash ‘s Grant Gustin in a sweet-voiced Broadway debut, that puts some charm into a thin book by Rick Elice that probably veered too close to the novel for its own good. In addition to the fine three lead actors, the ensemble cast includes a few stand-outs, notably Stan Brown as the grizzled, used-up emotional heart of the workers and Sara Gettelfinger as a bawdy dancer one or two bumps and grinds past her prime.
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