--- title: Rescued Rat Who Starred on Broadway Dies in Freak Accident description: She appeared in 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' canonical: https://time.com/4195523/rescued-broadway-rat-dies-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-27T14:41:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:17.913Z og:title: Rescued Rat Who Starred on Broadway Dies in Freak Accident og:description: She appeared in 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' og:url: https://time.com/4195523/rescued-broadway-rat-dies-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rescued Rat Who Starred on Broadway Dies in Freak Accident twitter:description: She appeared in 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rescued Rat Who Starred on Broadway Dies in Freak Accident > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jan 27, 2016 2:41 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jan 27, 2016 2:41 PM UTC A white rat named Rose, who was rescued after being abandoned on a New York street last year, [has died in what her owner calls a “freak accident”](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/nyregion/rat-who-escaped-peril-and-made-it-on-broadway-dies-in-a-fall.html) a few days after the animal made her Broadway debut. Rose was one of several hundred rats mysteriously dumped onto NYC’s streets last summer, the _New York Times_ reports. When the city left out poison for the rats, the city’s “rat-rescue community” tried to save the animals, and Rose eventually found a home with the trainer for the Broadway hit _The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time_, which features a live rat on stage. When the show’s original rat, who “plays” the pet of the autistic teenage protagonist, fell ill, Rose made her big debut and took the stage for the first time last Thursday. Tragically, her Broadway fame was short-lived: four days after her big break, she was struck by a shelf that came loose. Rose was eight months old. “She was always on those shelves,” the rat’s owner told the _Times_. “She’s just a feisty, agile, fearless precocious rat, and she loved adventure.” \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/nyregion/rat-who-escaped-peril-and-made-it-on-broadway-dies-in-a-fall.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4195523/rescued-broadway-rat-dies-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4195523/rescued-broadway-rat-dies-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/"},"headline":"Rescued Rat Who Starred on Broadway Dies in Freak Accident","datePublished":"2016-01-27T14:41:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:17.913Z","description":"She appeared in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time","url":"https://time.com/4195523/rescued-broadway-rat-dies-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Theater"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4195523/rescued-broadway-rat-dies-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/","name":"Rescued Rat Who Starred on Broadway Dies in Freak Accident"}}]}] ```