# Broadway Rat achieves Stardom, Dies

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**Created:** [January 27, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadway-rat-achieves-stardom-dies/744363 "2016-01-27T14:08:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadway-rat-achieves-stardom-dies/744363/1 "2016-01-27T14:08:06Z")

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> **[Rat dies in freak accident just as her Broadway career was flourishing](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/rat-dies-in-freak-accident-just-as-her-broadway-career-was-flourishing-a6836581.html)**
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> She is remembered as 'a feisty, agile, fearless precocious rat who loved adventure'.

I have read about this on the NYTimes, but believe their articles are behind their paywall, so am going with this link.

In the **Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime** now on Broadway, there is a rat featured as a pet of the boy. The NYTimes just had an article about Rose, the rat trained for the part - how it was abandoned on a roadside, rescued and now starring on Broadway. Yay! Heartwarming!!

But, we are just learning that Rose the Rat was crushed in a “freak accident.”

Not so heartwarming!!

I feel bad for this rat, but can’t help but chuckle about the timing of the articles - its like a sit-com plot or something.