Life Of Pi Gives A Spectacular Show At The Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

All on board are the occasional hyena, an orangutan, a zebra, a strange sea turtle, a hyena-fed water rat, and most impressive of all, a giant Bengal tiger with the improbable name of Richard Parker.

We all are familiar with the story of Life of Pi which was also nominated for the Oscars. The story of a boy who journeys in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger. The spectacle of the movie is brought back musically at Broadway.

When a character promises a life story so inspiring that it turns a believer into an atheist, the story had better sell out. The Life of Pi, Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s poignant 2001 novel, premiering tonight at Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, is unlikely to produce religious converts and a renewed confidence in the art of puppetry is almost guaranteed.

Starring successful young actor Hiran Abeysekera, who reprises his Olivier Award-winning London performance as the title character, Life of Pi, directed by Max Webster, stays closer to the novel than Ang Lee’s 2012 film adaptation, which builds on the storyline, which centers around a sea of ​​investigation rather than writing a book and, of course, replacing the CGI beasts with enough fully articulated, life-size puppets to populate a zoo or at least a lifeboat. All on board are the occasional hyena, an orangutan, a zebra, a strange sea turtle, a hyena-fed water rat, and most impressive of all, a giant Bengal tiger with the improbable name of Richard Parker.(Hollywood Reporter)

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How the creatures and young Pi end up sharing a small ship in the Pacific will not surprise you whether you’ve read the novel or seen the movie, and if you haven’t experienced either, Life of Pi has a disclosure delivery system ready and waiting.

When the zoo’s fearsome creatures soon eat each other up, Pi finds himself bullied into a fairly peaceful coexistence as the last man with the feral Richard Parker, the 450-pound jungle cat, through some circus training tips that Pi ghostly recalls from the visit of her animal-loving father.

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Nevertheless, the boy knows how to weave an excellent story. Even Broadway audiences, still mesmerized by the bovine Milky White of Into the Woods and the giant prehistoric creatures of Lincoln Center’s The Skin of Our Teeth, will love Creatures of Pi, courtesy of Finn Caldwell, director of puppetry and Movement, and his co-designer Nick.