From Chic Silber

David Balding, a producer on Broadway and Off Broadway, who may have been best known as a circus showman, who acted as a parent to an elephant, died on May 9 in Weldon Spring, Mo. He was 75. He and a handful of partners created Circus Flora, a family friendly one ring affair whose acts were loosely stitched and combined circus and theater techniques. Mr. Balding was the ringmaster. Mr. Balding was the central character, though not the star, of the 2011 documentary film “One Lucky Elephant,” about his relationship with Flora, the orphaned baby African  elephant he bought and more or less adopted in 1984.