'Water for Elephants The Musical' is a theatrical adaptation of Sara Gruen’s novel. Set during the Great Depression, telling the story of a young man's journey with a traveling circus.

You don’t initially see a full elephant at the Broadway musical “Water for Elephants.”.

It began in 2018 as a conversation between authors Jami Attenberg and Anne Gisleson: a writing “boot camp” in which each would write 1,000 words a day for 14 days.