What do you for an encore after 9 seasons of playing a superhero? Why, you star in a new Broadway musical!
Grant Gustin, known as The Flash to his CW network fans, will headline “Water for Elephants,” a new musical based on the film with Robert Pattinson. The show opens next spring.
Gustin isn’t really known for singing, just rushing around to break the speed limit. But his bio says he did a season of “Glee” on TV and was in a lot of high school musicals.
Luckily, he’s got a strong veteran Broadway cast behind him including Greg Edelman, Paul Alexander Nolan, and Isabella McCalla. Gustin will play Jacob, who jumps on a train and joins the circus. “Water for Elephants” was a novel before it became a movie that wasn’t so well received. But Rick Elice wrote the book, music is by Pigpen Theater Company, and director Jessica Stone is coming off “Kimberly Akimbo.”
No word on who will play the elephant, who is said to be on Ozempic so he’s nice and svelte.
