Water for Elephants swings into Tony season!

Shana Carroll and Jesse Robb discuss combining dance and circus choreography to thrill Broadway audiences. We learn how learn how Grant Guston jumps from a train, Isabelle McCalla flies from a trapeze and performers give life to horses and elephants that steal our hearts. Listen to find out how this show operates differently than any other show on Broadway.

Eila & Bruce also discuss Eddie Redmayne’s Oliver win for Best Actor in a Musical for Cabaret. Not to be missed is their coverage of the Drama League Awards including Sarah Paulson once in a career win.

SHANA CARROLL (Circus Designer & Co-Choreographer).Co-founding artistic director of The 7 Fingers, where she created over a dozen shows including Traces, Sequence 8, Cuisine & Confessions, Passengers. Other directing: Cirque du Soleil’s Crystal; circus component of Queen of the Night; Cirque du Soleil performance on 84th Academy Awards. Other circus design/choreography: Paramour (Broadway); Cirque du Soleil’s Iris; Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony.

JESSE ROBB (Co-Choreographer) has worked at The Alliance Theatre, The Stratford Festival of Canada, Theatre Calgary, Ogun[1]quit Playhouse, Opera Philadelphia, Cirque du Soleil and MOMIX, among others. He is the movement director for the Cameron Mackintosh production of Les Misérables (U.S. national and South Korea) and was the associate choreographer for Miss Saigon (Broadway, U.S. tour, Vienna). Thanks and love to MF, PP, KZ, Les and Roberta Robb.

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