THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

(Script)
Scene 1

All : ( Intro ) Woah Woah WoahWoahWoahWoahWoahWoahWoah

P. T Barnum: Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited
for (woah)
Been searching in the dark, your sweat soaking through
the floor (woah)
And buried in your bones there's an ache that you
can't ignore
Taking your breath, stealing your mind
And all that was real is left behind

Don't fight it, it's coming for you, running at ya

It's only this moment, don't care what comes after
Your fever dream, can't you see it getting closer
Just surrender 'cause you feel the feeling taking over
It's fire, it's freedom, it's flooding open
It's a preacher in the pulpit and you'll find devotion
There's something breaking at the brick of every wall,
it's holding
All that you know
So tell me do you wanna go?

All: Where it's covered in all the colored lights

Where the runaways are running the night
Impossible comes true, it's taking over you
Oh, this is the greatest show
We light it up, we won't come down
And the sun can't stop us now
Watching it come true, it's taking over you
Oh, this is the greatest show

P.T Barnum: It's everything you ever want

It's everything you ever need
And it's here right in front of you
This is where you wanna be
(this is where you wanna be)
It's everything you ever want
It's everything you ever need
And it's here right in front of you
This is where you wanna be
( The circus actors walked around Barnum and slowly fading )
It's everything you ever want
It's everything you ever need
And it's here right in front of you
 This is where you wanna be
( Adult P.T Barnum exit)

Scene 2

( Young P.T Barnum enters )

Philo Barnum: Let’s go Phineas. Hurry up ! We’re going to be

late with Mr. Winthrop

( Charity was taught on how to properly drink a cup of glass )

Woman: Stand up straight. Wipe that muck off. Keep up. Arm
extended, elbow out. Sip, and never slurp. Begin here, arm
extended... elbow out. Keep your cup level. Low your cup. Shall
we do it again? Arm extended, elbow out. Gracefully.

Young P.T Barmun: ( Made funny faces and gestures )

Charity: ( spits the water then laugh )

Mr. Winthrop: Charity, come over here. Your dress

( Eyes on the dress )
Is this how we have taught you to behave?

Young P.T Barnum: ( faced Mr. Winthrop ) Its my fault sir. I

made her laugh.

Mr. Winthrop: Well, thank you for your honesty. ( Pushes

Barnum )
Stay away from my daughter.

( Mr. Winthrop, Charity and Philo exits )

Scene 3

( Young P.T Barnum slowly sit in a bench )

( Charity enters )

Young P.T Barnum: How did you get out?

Charity: The window. Father is sending me to finishing school. I

don't know what my future will be.

Young P.T Barnum: I do.

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.

( Stands up )

They can say, they can ay it all sounds crazy.

They can say, they cansay 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.

Charity: Cause every night I lie in bed.

The brightest colors fill my head.
A million dreams are keeping me awake.
I think of whatthe 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

Young P.T Barnum: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 designed.

Charity: Cause every night I lie in bed.

The brightest colors fill my head.
A million dreams are keeping me awake.
I think of whatthe 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

( Mr. Winthrop saw the two then pulled Charity away )

Young P.T Barnum: ( He walks and wander in a street until he

found
a fortune teller promoting his place )

Magician: Come join the Great American Railroad. Three meals a

day.
A roof over your head. Fair and ample wages.Come, make
your fortune. See the open plains of
America.Opportunity
awaits you sir, out on the rails.

( In that case, Young P.T joined inside the fortune teller’s

place)

( The Adult P.T enters )

P.T Barnum: Sir I, I know I don't come from much but I will
take
care of your daughter and I will give her a life as
grand as this one.

Charity: (face her mother) Goodbye Mother.

Mr. Winthrop: She'll be back. Sooner or later she will get tired
of your life of having nothing and she will keep
running back home.

( Charity and Barnum face each other )

Both: 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.

P.T Barnum: However big, however small.

Let me be part of it all.
Share your dreams with me.
You may be right, you may be wrong.
Charity: But say that you'll bring me along.
To the world you see. To the world I close
my eyes to see.

Both: I close my eyes to see

P.T Barnum: Cause every night I lie in bed.

The brightest colors fill my head.
A million dreams are keeping me awake.
A million dreams

Charity: A million dreams.

I think of what the world could be.
A vision of what I see.
A million dreams is all it's gonna take.
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make.
( Barnum kneeled to Charity with a ring on his hand)
For the world we're gonna make.

Scene 4

( Mr Smnith gave Barnum a paper )

P.T Barnum: Bankrupt? I thought the company had a dozen trading

Ships.

Mr. Smith: Yes, at the bottom of the South China Seas. A typhoon
sank them all.

( P.T Barnum walks home )

Charity: Hey, you partners, look who.

Helen and Caroline: Daddy!

P.T Barnum: ( He pointed her twins ) You two, come here!

Caroline: Did you bring a present for my birthday, daddy?

P.T Barnum: Its not your birthday. Okay, I do have a present.

( Proceed to go behind the curtain )
But not just any present.The most amazing birthday
present ever. This extraordinary machine was
originally created by Leonardo Da Vinci 400 years
ago.
But the blueprints have been lost for centuries,
until
 just last week, on a stormy night... when a sunke
pirate ship washed up on the shores of Nantucket.
They found skeletons and treasures... and the
blueprints were recovered by none other than JW
Mercantile. The blueprints crossed my desk very
briefly... but I managed to committ them to memory...
and if I had remembered correctly...
Happy birthday, Caroline.This is a wishing machine.
You tell it your wishes... and it keeps them safe
until they come true. Even if you forget them,
they are always there.

Caroline: Can we tell a wish?

P.T Barnum: Step right up. Go ahead.

Caroline: I wish to marry Santa Clause.

( They all laugh )

Helen: I wish for ballet slippers.

P.T Barnum: Hey, thats a good wish too.

Helen: How about you mommy?

Charity: I wish...

for happiness like this forever.For you and you...

and for your father. ( point to her family )

Helen: Broing

Cahrity: Boring? Since when is happiness ever been boring?

Helen and Caroline: 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
( The family gathered and hug each other )

All: A million dreams is all it's gonna take.

A million dreams for the world we're gonna make.

Scene 5
( The family is walking in the street )
Charity: Why would a bank loan us 10,000 dollars?

P.T Barnum: Because we put up a collateral.

Charity: We don’t have a collateral.

P.T Barnum: Sure we do. In theSouth China Seas.

Charity: And what did we buy with this loan?

Caroline: Barnum's American Museum of Curiosity.

P.T Barnum: A place to be transported. A place where people can

See thing they've never seen before.

( O’Mally enetered the scene )

P.T Barnum: You have already met some of the most famous folks
from the history. But they are not all wax. This is
the Great O'Malley. Master of sleight of hand, the
king of deception.

( They entertain people to come to their musueum )

P.T Barnum: Welcome to the Barnum Museum.

Person 1: Garbage.

P.T Barnum: You will enjoy the Barnum Musuem of curiosity, maam.

Person 2: Its just a waste of time.

P.T Barnum: How many tickets we sold.

Charity: 3 tickets.

P.T Barnum: Only three?

( Suddenly sits in a chair )

Helen: I think you have too many dead things in your museum
daddy.

Caroline: She is right. You need something alive.

P.T Barnum: Something that isn't stuffed.

Helen: Like a mermaid!

Caroline: Or a unicorn!

Helen: Unicorns aren't real.

Caroline: Well, mermaids aren't real either.

Charity: Hey, you two. Thats enough, come over here.

( The twins proceed to go with Charity )

( The family went to a place to find someone unique )

P.T Barnum: Hello.

Who is doing that singing?
It's you, isn't it?

Lettie Lutz: Sir, you can't be here.

P.T Barnum: You are so talented, blessed...

Extraordinary
Unique
I would even say 'beautiful'

Lettie Lutz: Sir,

Please leave me alone

Lettie Lutz: Sir, I'll have to ask you to leave.

P.T Barnum: You are so talented, blessed. They don't understand

It, but they will.

Scene 6

( Barnum suggests an audition for his museum )

P.T Barnum: OK. Anne and WD Wheeler.

( go near to Barnum )
Brother and sister? And what you can do?
Both: Trapeze

P.T Barnum: Trapeze. Okay

( Strong man appear in front of Barnum with his body )

P.t Barnum: Is this so far your...

Strong Man: Entire Body

P.T Barnum: Fantastic.

P.T Barnum: Okay next.

Dog Boy: Barnum Museum. (Jump off the table )

P.T Barnum: Yeah, Dog Boy. ( they exchange palm and exits)

( Fat man entered )

P.T Barnum: Can I just ask how heavy you are? Do you have a
number
for that?

Fat man: Just between you and me. 500 pounds.

P.T Barnum: 750 pounds? Is what you said?

Fat Man: 750 pounds ! World’s Heaviest Man ( They laugh )

P.T Barnum: What's your name?

Irish Gaint: Vasily Palvos, sir.

P.t Barnum: Yeah, we are going to change that name. I think

you're Irish. Irish Giant.