Wait, is this a perfect play?

“Life of Pi” — now at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale through Sunday, Oct. 26 — is a dazzling display of theatrical visuals and coruscant storytelling so powerful, so enthralling, that it’s hard to imagine how it could be any better.

The play is based on the 2001 bestselling, philosophical novel from Yann Martel that delves deep into spirituality and became an Oscar-winning movie in 2012. This stage version debuted in London’s West End, winning five Olivier Awards before bowing on Broadway in 2023, where it won three Tony Awards.

“Life of Pi” is not a musical but has that multilayered, multidimensional poetry wound tightly in and around the production. The special effects, the puppetry, the music (nope, not show tunes as much a

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