THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

(Curtains down)

We cut to Barnum as a young boy (Ellis Rubin) in the 1800's, working with his tailor father Philo (Will
Swenson). They arrived at the home of Mr. Hallett (Fred Lehne) and his daughter Charity (Skylar Dunn).
P.T. makes Charity laugh and spit out her tea, prompting her father to smack him across the face and
forbid him from going near her (CURTAINS UP)

*barnums father was checking size*

*charity stares at barnum*

*barnum makes an act*

*charity laughs*

*mr. hallet scolded charity*

Mr. Hallet : Charity is that how we taught you how to wear your dress?

Barnum : I’m sorry, Mr. Hallet . it’s my fault. I made her laugh.

Mr. Hallet : Oh, then thankyou for your honestly.. (changes emotion then slaps barnum)

(Curtians down)

Regardless, P.T. and Charity spend time together and develop a close friendship . Charity was forced to
go to a finishing school in a faraway place.. They write letters to each other and eventually reunite as
adults, where Barnum proposes to Charity.

*barnum sitting on the grass*

*charity comes over*

Barnum : how did you get out?

Charity : from the window.. They are sending me to girl’s school..

Barnum : you will have friends there..

Charity : will i? we could write letters..

Barnum : of course we could..

----MILLION DREAMS-----

[Maky Torres:]

I close my eyes and I can see

The world that's waiting up for me

That I call my own

Through the dark, through the door

Through where no one's been before

But it feels like home

They can say, they can say I've lost my mind

I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy

We can live in a world that we design

'Cause every night I lie in bed

The brightest colors fill my head

A million dreams are keeping me awake

I think of what the world could be

A vision of the one I see

A million dreams is all it's gonna take

A million dreams for the world we're gonna make

There's a house we can build

Every room inside is filled

With things from far away

The special things I compile

Each one there to make you smile

On a rainy day

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy

They can say, they can say we've lost our minds

I don't care, I don't care if they call us crazy

Run away to a world that we design..

(Curtains up)

[Cj Estaris:]

Every night I lie in bed

The brightest colors fill my head

A million dreams are keeping me awake

I think of what the world could be

A vision of the one I see

A million dreams is all it's gonna take

A million dreams for the world we're gonna make

However big, however small

Let me be part of it all

Share your dreams with me

You may be right, you may be wrong

But say that you'll bring me along

To the world you see

To the world I close my eyes to see

I close my eyes to see

[CJ and Marrien:]

Every night I lie in bed

The brightest colors fill my head

A million dreams are keeping me awake

A million dreams, a million dreams

I think of what the world could be

A vision of the one I see

A million dreams is all it's gonna take

A million dreams for the world we're gonna make

For the world we're gonna make.

( Estaris proposes to Marrien)

(Curtains down)

Barnum works for a trading company until his boss tells everyone that they are shutting the company
down due to bankruptcy after their trading vessels have sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Barnum goes
home to Charity and their daughters Caroline (Austyn Johnson) and Helen (Cameron Seely). He brings
home a spinning lamp, or "wishing machine", for Caroline's birthday. Charity and the girls all make
wishes, and Barnum hatches an idea. Barnum goes to the bank for a $10,000 loan and uses the deed to
the (sunken) trading vessels as collateral. With the money, he opens up a museum devoted to oddities,
because he thinks people are fascinated with things like that.

(Curtains up)

*Estaris and family distributes /sells tickets posters*

Barnum and his family spreads posters and sold tickets but people ignored.. The museum fails to attract
business, and most people reject the idea. Then his daughter told him that he sould display real people
alive people..

Caroline : Daddy, maybe we sould put alive creations in the museum..like mermaids!
Helen : yes and unicorns!

Caroline : unicorns are’t real..

Helen : memramids doesn’t exist either

*then barnum gets and idea*

-Curtains down-

Barnum then goes around town searching for unique individuals. Among them are a dwarf named
Charles Stratton (Sam Humphrey), a bearded woman named Lettie Lutz an obese man called Lord of
Leeds ), a hair-covered man referred to as Dog Boy and an 8-foot tall man. Although initially viewed as
freaks, Barnum manages to get them all to put on a musical number of shows that win over crowds
every night –Curtians up— ("Come Alive").

--Curtains down--

One who remains unimpressed is critic James Gordon Bennett (Paul Sparks). Despite his lack of interest
in Barnum's show, Bennett inspires him to rename his show as "P.T. Barnum's Circus". The circus starts
to bring in healthy profits, leading Barnum to move his family into a luxurious mansion, as well as being
able to put Caroline in a ballet school. However, she becomes discouraged when the other girls mock
her for being part of a circus family. Barnum later meets a playwright named Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron).
He approaches Philip with the opportunity to join his circus and Phillip agrees on the condition that he
get 10% of the profits.

-Curtains Up-

---The otherside—

[Estaris:]

Right here, right now

I put the offer out

I don't want to chase you down

I know you see it

You run with me

And I can cut you free

Out of the treachery and walls you keep in

So trade that typical for something colorful

And if it's crazy, live a little crazy

You can play it sensible, a king of conventional

Or you can risk it all and see

Don't you wanna get away from the same old part you gotta play

'Cause I got what you need

It'll take you to the other side

'Cause you can do like you do

Or you can do like me

Stay in the cage, or you'll finally take the key

Oh, damn! Suddenly you're free to fly

It'll take you to the other side

[Morales:]

Okay, my friend, you want to cut me in

Well I hate to tell you, but it just won't happen

So thanks, but no

I think I'm good to go

'Cause I quite enjoy the life you say I'm trapped in

Now I admire you, and that whole show you do

You're onto something, really it's something

But I live among the swells, and we don't pick up peanut shells

I'll have to leave that up to you

Don't you know that I'm okay with this uptown part I get to play

'Cause I got what I need and I don't want to take the ride

I don't need to see the other side

So go and do like you do

I'm good to do like me

Ain't in a cage, so I don't need to take the key

Oh, damn! Can't you see I'm doing fine

I don't need to see the other side

[estaris:]

Now is this really how you like to spend your days?

Whiskey and misery, and parties and plays

If I were mixed up with you, I'd be the talk of the town

Disgraced and disowned, another one of the clowns

[estaris:]

But you would finally live a little, finally laugh a little

Just let me give you the freedom to dream and it'll

Wake you up and cure your aching

Take your walls and start 'em breaking

Now that's a deal that seems worth taking

But I guess I'll leave that up to you

[morales:]

Well it's intriguing, but to go would cost me greatly

So what percentage of the show would I be taking?

[estaris:]

Fair enough, you'd want a piece of all the action

I'd give you seven, we could shake and make it happen

[morales:]

I wasn't born this morning, eighteen would be just fine

[estaris:]

Why not just go ahead and ask for nickels on the dime

[morales:]

Fifteen

[estaris:]
I'd do eight

[morales:]

Twelve

[estaris:]

Maybe nine

[morales:]

Ten

[Both:]

Don't you wanna get away to a whole new part you're gonna play

'Cause I got what you need, so come with me and take the ride

To the other side

So if you do like I do

So if you do like me

Forget the cage, 'cause we know how to make the key

Oh, damn! Suddenly we're free to fly

We're going to the other side

So if you do like I do

(To the other side)

So if you do like me

(We're going to the other side)

'Cause if we do we're going to the other side

We're going to the other side..

Curtains down

The troupe is invited to England to meet Queen Victoria (Gayle Rankin). She notes that Charles (now
going as General Tom Thumb) is exceptionally short, and he makes a crack that she's not so tall either.
After an awkward silence, Victoria lets out a hearty laugh. Later, Barnum and Phillip meet noted opera
singer Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson), and they invite her to perform for the show so that she may
become known worldwide.

Curtains Up
 *barnum and Philip approach jenny lind*
Jenny : Oh, Gentlemen.
Barnum : Ms. Lind , let me get this straight, can you join my circus ,I promise to make you give a
big role. And make you the most famous.
Jenny : excuse Mister, but have you heard me sing?
Barnum : No
Phillip : Yes
Barnum : but I trust you.

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Jenny joins the show back in the States.Barnum trusted and hoped that jenny lind has a wonderful voice,
he risk and let her sang in that night. Ms. Lind performs before a large crowd ("Never Again") that
includes Phillip's parents, as well as Charity's. The crowd loves her, and Barnum even spots Bennett in
the audience appearing to enjoy her. He finds himself falling for the show's trapeze artist Anne
Wheeler). Curtains up

*Maxine sings*

Curtains Down

After Jenny's performance, Barnum and the others gather with a party, but when the rest of the troupe
wants to join the party, Barnum turns them away. Although sad at first, the troupe decides not to let this
get them down, as they decide to embrace who they are, regardless of how they are viewed

Curtains Up

("This is Me").

Curtains down

Phillip tries to introduce Anne to his parents, but they disapprove of her because of her race. She leaves
upset, and Phillip tells his parents off for how they spoke to Anne. He goes to find her, and they express
their mutual feelings for one another

Curtains up

("Rewrite The Stars").

[Morales]

You know I want you

It's not a secret I try to hide

I know you want me

So don't keep saying our hands are tied

You claim it's not in the cards

But fate is pulling you miles away

And out of reach from me

But you're here in my heart

So who can stop me if I decide

What if we rewrite the stars?

Say you were made to be mine

Nothing could keep us apart

You'd be the one I was meant to find

It's up to you

And it's up to me

No one can say what we get to be

So why don't we rewrite the stars?

Maybe the world could be ours

Tonight

[angella:]

You think it's easy

You think I don't want to run to you

But there are mountains

And there are doors that we can't walk through

I know you're wondering why

Because we're able to be

Just you and me

Within these walls

But when we go outside

You're gonna wake up and see that it was hopeless after all

No one can rewrite the stars

How can you say you'll be mine

Everything keeps us apart

And I'm not the one you were meant to find

It's not up to you

It's not up to me

When everyone tells us what we can be

How can we rewrite the stars?

Say that the world can be ours,Tonight

All I want is to fly with you

All I want is to fall with you

So just give me all of you

[angella]

It feels impossible

[morales:]

It's not impossible

[angella:]

Is it impossible?

[Both:]

Say that it's possible

[angella and morales:]

How do we rewrite the stars?

Say you were made to be mine?

Nothing can keep us apart

Cause you are the one I was meant to find

It's up to you

And it's up to me

No one can say what we get to be

Why don't we rewrite the stars?

Changing the world to be ours

[angella:]

You know I want you

It's not a secret I try to hide

But I can't have you

We're bound to break and

My hands are tied.

---CURTAINS DOWN--
Barnum goes on tour with Jenny, leaving Phillip as the ringmaster with the show. Protesters
continuously gather outside to harass the troupe for their physical differences. The distance proves to
be hard for Charity and the girls

Curtains up

("Tightrope").

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To Barnum, While celebrating their success so far, Jenny appears to develop an attraction to Barnum,
but he remains faithful to Charity. Jenny gets upset and threatens to quit, but Barnum has her finish the
tour. After one performance, the press snaps a photo of Jenny kissing Barnum before she ultimately
quits.

Curtains up

*Maxine performs*

*Maxine hugged estaris*

Curtains down

Phillip confronts the protesters, but they refuse to leave. When they threaten him and the others,
Anne's brother W.D. (Yahya Abdul-Mateen III) throws the first punch, leading to an all-out brawl
between the troupe and the protesters. One of the protesters grabs a lantern and throws it at a wall,
setting the theater ablaze. Barnum returns home from his tour and greets his family when he overhears
about the fire. He runs toward it just as the flames consume the whole building. Phillip runs inside to
find Anne, but she is already coming out with W.D. Barnum runs in for Phillip, just as the building
collapses. His daughters cry, thinking him dead, until he emerges with an unconscious Phillip. He is taken
to the hospital.Barnum just sits outside the remains of the theater. Bennett goes to join him, saying that
the police arrested the thugs that started the fire, and while Bennett didn't enjoy Barnum's show, he
feels that another critic may have called it a "celebration of humanity". He then shows Barnum the
newspaper, which shows Jenny kissing him and her announcement of quitting. Barnum rushes home to
Charity, only to find that she's packed her bags because the bank is evicting them, but she is also
unhappy over seeing the paper, despite Barnum trying to explain himself.

Curtains up

*Estaris comes running back home*

* marrien brought her bags*

Barnum : Charity, I swear nothing happened.. that is not real

Charity : not real huh? It’s the cover of every news paper and magazines! *get bags*

Barnum : where are you going?

Charity : I’m going home.

Barnum : but wait this your home..

Charity : this is not home. Barnum

*BARNUM KNELT DOWN*

CURTAINS DOWN
Barnum goes to drink at a bar. The entire troupe finds him and confronts him. Lettie tells Barnum that
while he may not have always done the right thing, he saw them all as more than freaks and gave them
a real family and home. Barnum is encouraged to pick himself up and help get the troupe back to
performing..

CURTAINS UP

*DRINKS AND MAKES A SAD EMOTIONS*

*THEN HIS PERFORMERS WENT IN*

*BARNUM STARTS TO SING* (FROM NOW ON)

*THEN EVERBODY DANCE*

CURTAINS DOWN

He then runs to Charity's childhood home where the girls tell him that she's at the beach. Barnum goes
to apologize to her for being obsessed with chasing fame, and she says all she wanted was the man she
fell in love with.

CURTAINS UP

*Estaris goes to Marrien*

Hugged Marrien from the back..

Barnum : I’m sorry, I swear nothing happened, believe me Charity, you and the girls are my life. You are
my happiness.

Charity : those past days, the barnum I knew left, but now that barnum I love is back *then hugs*

Curtains down

Phillip, who has recovered, offers to provide his shares from profits to restart the circus. Although
Barnum hesitates, Phillip is adamant in being his partner with 50% of shares. Barnum restarts the show
in a tent with circus animals and the rest of the troupe. Audiences turn out in droves. Barnum then
decides to hand over the job of ringmaster to Phillip so that he can go and watch his girls grow up.
Phillip finishes the show and kisses Anne, while Barnum rides an elephant to meet Charity and the girls.

Curtain up

THE GREATEST SHOW