Anyone who has read or seen the film “Life of Pi” might be surprised that it is now a Tony Award–winning play that will be at the Fox from Oct. 7 to 19.

The book, by Yann Martel, is about a young man named Pi whose family owns a zoo in India. With political changes at home, Pi’s father decides they should emigrate and books passage for his family and all of his zoo animals on a cargo ship bound for Canada, but the boat capsizes and Pi is one of the few survivors. The only problem? He’s sharing his lifeboat with Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger, who is getting hungry.

Pi narrates the book, so, spoiler alert, he does survive, but he and the tiger encounter challenges and adventures as they stay lost on the Pacific Ocean for 277 days.

While the 2012 film could avail itself of CGI to create R

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