{"id":5745,"date":"2025-10-16T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5745\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:16:10","slug":"straz-to-present-water-for-elephants-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5745\/","title":{"rendered":"Straz to present \u2018Water for Elephants\u2019 | Diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 The national tour of \u201cWater for Elephants\u201d will be presented Oct. 28-Nov. 2, in Morsani Hall at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets start at $55. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/strazcenter.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strazcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The critically acclaimed bestselling novel comes to \u201cthrilling, dazzling\u201d life (Time Out New York) in a unique, spectacle-filled new musical. Hailed as a Critic\u2019s Pick, The New York Times calls it \u201cstunning, emotional, heart-filled and gorgeously imaginative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After losing what matters most, a young man jumps a moving train unsure of where the road will take him and finds a new home with the remarkable crew of a traveling circus, and a life \u2014 and love \u2014 beyond his wildest dreams. Seen through the eyes of his older self, his adventure becomes a poignant reminder that if you choose the ride, life can begin again at any age.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Award-nominated director Jessica Stone\u2019s \u201chuge, heart-filling&#8221; production (The New York Times) features a book by three-time Tony nominee Rick Elice adapted from Sara Gruen\u2019s novel, and a soaring score by the acclaimed PigPen Theatre Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 The national tour of \u201cWater for Elephants\u201d will be presented Oct. 28-Nov. 2, in Morsani Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[276,5168,135,137,136,6297,6296],"class_list":{"0":"post-5745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-hillsborough-county","9":"tag-straz-center","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-headlines","12":"tag-tampa-news","13":"tag-traveling-circus","14":"tag-water-for-elephants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}