Disney Theatrical Group has announced that their brand-new stage adaptation of The Greatest Showman, based on the 2017 smash-hit film, with songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, a book by Tim Federle, and direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw, will begin performances at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 14 April, and is currently booking until 2 October 2027.
Public booking opens on 18 November at 12pm GMT.
The Greatest Showman The Musical stars Oliver Tompsett as P.T. Barnum, Samantha Barks as Charity Barnum, Ben Joyce as Phillip Carlyle, Vajèn van den Bosch as Jenny Lind, and Malinda Parris as Lettie Lutz. Further casting is to be announced.
The musical will feature the GRAMMY® Award-winning and Academy Award®-nominated songs by EGOT winners Pasek and Paul, including ‘The Greatest Show’, ‘A Million Dreams’, ‘Come Alive’, ‘Rewrite the Stars’, ‘Never Enough’, and the Golden Globe® Award-winning ‘This Is Me’, together with their brand-new songs written especially for the musical.
Based on the 20th Century Studios motion picture with story by Jenny Bicks, The Greatest Showmanis the first 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox) title to be adapted for the stage by Disney Theatrical Group. The Seelig Group, a producer of the original film, is also a producer of the musical.
Completing the creative team are musical supervisor, incidental & dance music arranger and orchestrator Alex Lacamoire, set designer David Korins, costume designers Gregg Barnes and Sky Switser, lighting designer Natasha Katz, sound designer Peter Hylenski, video designer George Reeve, circus creator and designer Lorenzo Pisoni, hair and wig designer Josh Marquette, make-up designer Milagros Medina-Cerdeira, special effects designer Jeremy Chernick, illusions and magic designer Skylar Fox, casting director Natalie Gallacher CDG for children’s casting director Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting, and Keston & Keston, acrobat casting director The 7 Fingers, and vocal and incidental musical arranger Justin Paul.