WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Broadway Previews — Page 5

I saw the show last night and it was roughly 2h45 minutes. When I checked my watch exiting the theater last night, it was 10:55pm (show started a few mins after 8pm with 1 intermission.) There's still room for cuts so hopefully they'll be able to tighten the show to 2h30 mins.

I thought the show started off well. I loved the artistry done during the mare song ("Easy" sung by Isabelle McCalla) in Act 1. That was probably one of my favorite scenes of the show. As others have said, the acrobatics were outstanding and parts of it reminded me of Pippin and Paramour.

As for the elephant puppet, I wish the elephant ears were bigger.

Yes, I plan to see the show again after opening.

I saw this review on Reddit this morning on one of the Broadway subreddits:

"I've seen this show many times, and tonight was special. They're making a lot of changes to the book and flow and it's paying off! Paul Nolan was on fire.
They've tightened things up. Songs and dialogue have been trimmed, and the book just has more "flow" than the first few previews I saw and the energy doesn't dip as drastically. I think bows started just before 10:45 last night, so they've shaved at least 10 minutes off the show. "

It's very telling that with these new photos released, they continue to hide the elephant puppet from all marketing.

Mr. Wormwood said:

I don't think it will succeed but I don't think it will close THAT quickly. They'll at least wait it out for Tony noms and then if it gets a slew (big IF), probably ride it out through the awards"

Apparently 3 million dollars of the cap is reserve so they can take some losses for a few months. But at some point, it has to pay for itself. I'm not hopeful for it.

FANtomFollies said: "It's very telling that with these new photos released, they continue to hide the elephant puppet from all marketing."

Very telling. It also matches the teasing of Rosie before her "big reveal" in the show. With those cartoon eyes, boy is it disappointing.

Has anyone tried the MTC 30 dollar deal? What seats did you get?

It's $1,100.000 per week.......

JSquared2 said: "FANtomFollies said: "It's very telling that with these new photos released, they continue to hide the elephant puppet from all marketing."

Why do you think they should give away the surprises for free?"

Does Lion King 'give away the surprise' for free every time they show the puppets in their marketing? Get real.

I saw this last night and agree with everyone's thoughts. The score has NOTHING memorable, nobody is insanely terrific just "way better than their material" at best for some, and the score is both too simple but too long to just be the simple story.

I'd cut the framing device entirely. It's there for basically no reason and those moments could be used to give our leads...any sense of character. Why does everyone only sing about traveling? Why doesn't our leading lady have a "Why I Joined the Circus" number that explains her life and also causes the leading man to WANT to stick around since he's only hired for a day for food and that's all he seems to be after. We also know PAN's character is a greedy jerk but we don't see a THREAT until she's already leaving him.

I'll not oversell it because of course most Cirque shows have crazier tricks but I at least enjoyed the 5 clear circus performers who are working their butts off. It actually reminded me of the 1940s "singing chorus/dancing chorus" because it was VERY clear who was doing the tricks and never spoke or moved mouths in songs and who was singing constantly but never did more than simple basic choreo.

I also had a problem with the actual circus costumes. They weren't amazing or jaw-dropping by any means but they still seemed very clean and polished for the time period of the depression and how poorly the show is doing. I don't think they'd have fresh clean feathers and crystals but I guess the "give em something to look at!" mentality won out.

There was a house manager who I spoke with briefly and she basically yelled at me for grabbing a playbill (one) as I left but I said I didnt know that was wrong and she apologized and said "oh people are grabbing whole stacks for Grant to sign" which surprised me he has that kind of fan base.

I don't think we have a big beautiful monster hit (where is that cost from????) but they could certainly make some cuts, maybe add a couple of stronger to the story/characters songs, and make it...fine.

Grant Gustin has around 8M followers on instagram. I think bulk of his fanbase are from his Flash days.

Wick3 said: "Grant Gustin has around 8M followers on instagram. I think bulk of his fanbase are from his Flash days."

Yeah, there's a big difference between knowing who someone is and caring about who they are.

His name is practically nowhere on the advertising materials and he's not billed above the title, so anyone going for him is either a superfan who can recognize his face in side profile, or they follow him on socials.