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Characters
Narrator
(Can be same person as Candy Store Owner)
P.T. Barnum (plain and fancy top hat, coat with tails, white gloves, cane)
Song 5 (Other Side), 6 (Never Enough), 7 (From Now On)
Young Barnum (brown/black/grey clothes, suspenders, dirty)
Song 1 (Million Dreams)
Charity Barnum (dress, hair clips, sophisticated)
Song 6 (Never Enough)
Jenny Lind (fancy/sparkly dress, upper class)
Song 6 (Never Enough)
Phillip Carlyle (suit, or expensive looking)
Song 5 (Other Side)
Charles aka General Tom Thumb (military or farm clothes)
Song 3 (This is Me)
Performers (variety based on abilities of actors - All sing Song 3 (This is Me))
Tattooed Person (temporary tattoos or washable felt)
Contortion / Gymnastic person
Dog Boy / Beast (facial hair or face paint)
Tree (sauna tube in paper to look like birch bark, leaf, branch hat)
Albino / Zombie Dancer (face paint, torn clothes)
Strong Person (suspenders, large muscles under shirt)
Juggler (bright clothes)
Hula Hooper (hula hoop)
Bearded Lady (Solo in song)

Charles’ mother (purse, hanky, fancy hat) OR father (moustache, vest)


Roughian 1 (scruffy looking)
Roughian 2 (scruffy looking)
Roughian 3 (scruffy looking)
Candy Store Bartender (ball cap, suspenders) - can be Narrator
Candy Store Helper (has no lines) - optional
Sign Person (has no lines)
Props Person 1 (has no lines)
Props Person 2 (has no lines)
Sound Effects Person (has no lines)
Music Person (has no lines)
Div 4 - kindergarten (elephant hats)
Div 3 - grade 1/2 Fireworks (finger lights and flashing light sticks)
Div 2 - grade 3/4/5 Barnums (paper top hats)
Everyone sings along to finale verses in Song 8 (This is the Greatest Show)
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Props
❏ Raffle Box and Last Ticket
❏ Top Hats (plain, fancy/shiny)
❏ “Mirror” silhouette with rich Barnum
❏ “Idea” Cardboard Light Bulb for holding above hat/head
❏ Streamer Launcher (yogurt container with balloon bottom)
❏ Red and Golden Buzzers
❏ Fake heavy weights
❏ Backdrop (run down house)
❏ Backdrop (fixed up house)
❏ The World’s Greatest Show banner (nice)
❏ The World’s Greatest Show banner (burned/tattored)
❏ Candy Corner Store/Bar Sign
❏ Candy Backdrop (paint paper jars and stuff and tape to backdrop)
❏ Bank Sign (simple - just to alert audience to location)
❏ Table with 2 chairs (or stools)
❏ Jars of Wine Gums (just print colour picture liner)
❏ Bucket/Large Jar of Sour Keys (can just print colour picture liner)
❏ Jars of Jelly Beans
❏ Jars with Lollipops (cardboard) sticking out
❏ Poster: “Will pay for people with unique abilities.”
❏ Prompt Signs: WOW, Ha Ha Ha, Booo, Cheer, Awww, Applause
❏ Fake Weights
❏ Juggling Balls
❏ Hula Hoop
❏ Streamer/Confetti Launcher
❏ Money Bags
❏ Large Gold Coin
❏ Glow Sticks or Flashing Wands or finger lights

Media
❏ Ba Dum Ching sound
❏ Red Buzzer Sound
❏ Wah Wah Wah sound
❏ Golden Buzzer Sound (disco music?) - optional
❏ Fire Truck (old style) sound
❏ Song Soundtracks
❏ Songs Karaoke Videos? (to play on laptop for singers to see)
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Prologue (5 minutes)
Narrator (or P.T. Barnum), Charity

Narrator wearing a plain top hat enters the audience area. This is mainly improve as an
effort to “sell” a ticket. You may want to plant an audience member with $2 in case
nobody buys a ticket.

NARRATOR: There is one ticket left for the $1000 raffle - only $2 for the last ticket.

Get someone from the audience to buy it and then draw a random paper.

NARRATOR: You didn’t win.


NARRATOR: (To the rest of the audience - cup hand beside mouth)
They say that there is a sucker born every minute.

Charity enters from off stage and reprimands Barnum

CHARITY: Don’t you know that lotteries are now illegal for people to run and that only
the government is allowed to steal money from people that way. Give that person their
money back.
CHARITY: (Charity makes the Narrator give the $2 back.)

NARRATOR: Well, if people can’t sell false hopes anymore; maybe they can sell false
joy.

Lights fade to dark and they walk off stage.


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Scene 1 - Whatever it Takes (10-15 minutes)


Young Barnum, P.T.Barnum, Charity, Division 3

Young Barnum (tattered and poor) finds a windblown top hat and puts in on (kind of like
a Frosty the Snowman kind of moment).

PROP PERSON 1: Throws top hat in from the side of the stage.
YOUNG BARNUM: (picking up hat off ground) Thank my lucky stars! This is a sign for
my future.
Young Barnum puts it on his head and looks into a “mirror” (paper with a silhouette
drawing of a rich successful adult Barnum) and stands with back to audience in the
same pose of the mirror.

SONG 1: A Million Dreams (Young Barnum and with Barnum; Charity optional)
Young Barnum turns from mirror towards audience to sing - option change the words
from “we” to “I”?

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

0:38 They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
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

1:04 '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

Turning slightly towards the mirror.


1:41 There's a house we can build
Every room inside is filled
With things from far away
The special things I compile
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Each one there to make you smile


On a rainy day
Towards audience
2:05 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
Runaway to a world that we design

P.T. BARNUM Enter stage (from behind mirror? Or just from the side) and sing
together.

2:30 Every night I lie in bed


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

BOTH BARNUMS: stand arms over each others’ shoulders


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

Young Barnum leaves as Charity enters and puts a jacket on Barnum and sings.
3:00
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

(both singing) I close my eyes to see


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

both singing:
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
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For the world we're gonna make

Young Barnum walks off at end of song as Charity walks on stage carrying a nice
jacket. She puts the jacket on Barnum while saying her line:

CHARITY: There's still a chance for you …. 'Cause there's a spark in you. You just
have to ignite the light and let it shine.

P.T.Barnum and Charity walk off together arm in arm.

SONG 2: “Firework by Katy Perry” (Division 3 - Grade 1 & 2 holding a combindation of


glow sticks or finger lights and blinking flashlights rods) Students keep the lights hidden
behind their backs and then lift them out and above their heads in unison on “You just
gotta ignite the light” and then wave back and forth.

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag


Drifting through the wind
Wanting to start again
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in

0:34 Do you ever feel already buried deep


Six feet under scream
But no one seems to hear a thing
Do you know that there's still a chance for you
'Cause there's a spark in you
You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July

1:03 'Cause baby you're a firework


Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

1:18 Baby you're a firework


Come on let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
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You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down down down


You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds

1:45 After a hurricane comes a rainbow


Maybe a reason why all the doors are closed
So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road
Like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow
And when it's time, you'll know

You just gotta ignite the light


And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July

2:20 'Cause baby you're a firework


Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

2:36 Baby you're a firework


Come on let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down down down

2:51 Boom, boom, boom


Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through oogh, oogh

3:09 'Cause baby you're a firework


Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

Baby you're a firework


Come on let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
You're gonna leave 'em all in awe awe awe

3:35 Boom, boom, boom


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Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon


Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
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Scene 2 - Promising: Fortune (15-20 minutes)


P.T. Barnum, Charity, Parent, Performers, Roughians, Sign Person, Division 4

Barnum and Charity are walking (backdrop of a run down house off to one side of the
stage) and P.T.Barnum finds a large gold coin on the ground.

P.T. BARNUM: (picking up the large gold coin) Thank my lucky stars!
P.T. BARNUM: (rubbing coin between finger and thumb) I PROMISE you Charity, I will
get you FORTUNE and a fancy house!

CHARITY: All that matters is that we are together. The greatest riches come from being
with people you love.

P.T. BARNUM: Yes, yes. Of course.


P.T. BARNUM: I’ll meet you at home this afternoon. I have a very important meeting to
go to.

Optional: Charity sings Tightrope

They walk separate ways… Charity goes off stage and Barnum goes to a bank chair.
Barnum is sitting on a chair waiting to see a banker when Charles (person who is very
short (walking on knees?) and his parent walk on past.

PARENT: (complaining loudly with Charles trying to keep up) Banks only want to lend
money to people who have money!

PROP PERSON 1: Hold a large cardboard/paper light bulb above Barnum’s hat to show
that he has an idea as he stares at Charles.

P.T. BARNUM: Barnum smile’s large and rubs his chin.


Barnum runs off stage and returns with a large poster: “Will pay for people with
unique abilities.” Barnum places the sign in front of the desk then sits at a desk with a
golden buzzer and a red buzzer and holds “tryouts”.

Note: A “sign” person stands to the side and lifts up cheers, boos, awwww signs to
prompt the audience. Each performer quickly enters, does a “trick” and exchange lines
accordingly.

TATTOOED PERSON: I have lots of birthmarks (large wink) that look like tattoos.
P.T. BARNUM: Oooh. I like it. Very shocking.
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CONTORTION/GYMNASTIC PERSON: I can bend better than Beckham.


SIGN PERSON: sign #1 - WOW
P.T. BARNUM: Excellent. You’re in.

SHORT PERSON (CHARLES): I am short for my age … but my dreams are BIG.
SOUND EFFECT: ♪Badum Ching♪
P.T. BARNUM: You’ve come to the right show.

DOG BOY: Just because I look like a dog doesn’t mean I should be treated RUFF.
SIGN PERSON: sign #2 - Ha Ha Ha
P.T. BARNUM: Everyone loves a good groaner.

TREE: Walks/waddle on holding a leaf.


SIGN PERSON: As Tree walks on. sign #3 - Boooo
TREE: Holds hand up as if about to speak.
P.T. BARNUM: Before Tree speaks. …. Hits the red buzzer
SOUND EFFECT: ♪Red Buzzer Sound♪
TREE: Leaves sadly - head hung low
TREE: Drops leaf.
P.T. BARNUM: Somebody has to take the FALL.
SOUND EFFECT: ♪Badum Ching♪

ALBINO/ZOMBIE DANCER: (enters with a groove walk “singing badly”) I’ve got the
moves like Jagger ….
P.T. BARNUM: I hope you didn’t eat that Jagger. You’re in.

PROP PERSON 1 and 2: Drag a very “heavy” set of weights on to the stage.
STRONG PERSON: I am strong. Picks up the weights easily.
P.T. BARNUM: How can I say no? You’re in.

JUGGLER: (Juggling a couple balls.)


P.T. BARNUM: The kids will love you. Perhaps we can set those on fire?
Juggler catches balls and then smiles and nods.

HULA HOOPER: (Hula Hooping)


P.T. BARNUM: Wow! You’re a real Huper Hero.
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SOUND EFFECT: ♪Wah Wah Wah♪

Three Roughians appear from the opposite side of the stage as Bearded Lady enters
BEARDED LADY: People tell me that I don’t belong here, that I am out of place.
ROUGHIAN 1: That’s right! You don’t belong here.
ROUGHIAN 2: You’re a Freak!
ROUGHIAN 3: Yeah, freak!

P.T. BARNUM: They are small minded people. Why do you care what they say?
BEARDED LADY: You have never had somebody look at you the way they look at me.
P.T. BARNUM: That is true. Let’s see your talent.

SONG 3: This is Me (Bearded Lady, Charles, and the Performers bolded)

BEARDED LADY:
I am not a stranger to the dark; Hide away, they say
'Cause we don't want your broken parts
I've learned to be ashamed of all my scars; Run away, they say
No one'll love you as you are; But I won't let them break me down to dust
I know that there's a place for us;
For we are glorious

P.T. BARNUM: Hits the gets golden buzzer.


SOUND EFFECT: ♪Golden Buzzer Sound♪
SIGN PERSON: sign #4 Cheer!
MUSIC PERSON: Pause at 43 seconds
PROP PERSON 1: Runs on stage and pops and steamer launcher?
EVERYONE: Various Cheers!
MUSIC PERSON: Resume at 43 seconds
BEARDED LADY:
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me

Look out 'cause here I come


And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me!
Three Performers (Tattooed, Gymnast, Charles step into the center with bearded lady

1:15 Oh-oh-oh-oh - Bearded Lady and three performers


Oh-oh-oh-oh - everyone
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Oh-oh-oh-oh -Bearded Lady and three performers


Oh-oh-oh-oh -everyone
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh - everyone

CHARLES AND BEARDED LADY:


1:31 Another round of bullets hits my skin
Well, fire away 'cause today, I won't let the shame sink in

BEARDED LADY:
We are bursting through the barricades and
Reaching for the sun

EVERYONE: (we are warriors)


Yeah, that's what we've become

I won't let them break me down to dust


I know that there's a place for us
For we are glorious

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down


I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, THIS IS ME!
Three more Performers step into the center with bearded lady

Look out 'cause here I come


And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me!

Oh-oh-oh-oh - Bearded Lady and center performers


Oh-oh-oh-oh - everyone
Oh-oh-oh-oh -Bearded Lady and center performers
Oh-oh-oh-oh -everyone
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh - everyone
THIS IS ME!
All Performers should be in stage center with Bearded Lady.

Oh-oh-oh-oh - everyone
Oh-oh-oh-oh - Audience
Oh-oh-oh-oh - everyone
Oh-oh-oh-oh - Audience
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Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh - Audience

BEARDED LADY:
3:00 When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out

This is brave, This is bruised


This is who I'm meant to be, this is me

3:16 Look out 'cause here I come


And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, This is me!

EVERYONE AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION:


Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh
THIS IS ME!!

P.T. BARNUM: (Speaking to the performers.) I PROMISE you, I will get you RESPECT
from the world!

P.T. BARNUM: (Announcing loudly.) Together we will make the World’s Greatest Show
on Earth!

P.T. BARNUM: (Facing the audience.) All we need now are some elephants!

SONG 4: “Elephants Have Wrinkles” (Division 4 - Kindergarten Class enter and set up
on stage while wearing paper elephant hats. They do the body motions and stomp feet
on the percussion parts.)
Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJonGSbUWXE

CHORUS:
Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkles.
Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles everywhere.

Leader: On their toes Kids (echo): On their toes


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Leader: No one knows Kids (echo): No one knows


why yi yi yi yiih

CHORUS

Leader: On their knees Kids (echo): On their knees


Leader: On their toes Kids (echo): On their toes
Leader: No one knows Kids (echo): No one knows
why yi yi yi yiiih

CHORUS

Leader: On their hips Kids (echo): On their hips


Leader: On their knees Kids (echo): On their knees
Leader: On their toes Kids (echo): On their toes
Leader: No one knows Kids (echo): No one knows
why yi yi yi yiih

CHORUS

Leader: On their backs Kids (echo): On their backs


Leader: On their hips Kids (echo): On their hips
Leader: On their knees Kids (echo): On their knees
Leader: On their toes Kids (echo): On their toes
Leader: No one knows Kids (echo): No one knows
why yi yi yi yiih

CHORUS

Leader: On their teeth


Kids: On their teeth?! No way! That’s silly!

CHORUS: once more and end with “Hey!”


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Scene 3 - Barnum’s Pride (5 minutes)


P.T. Barnum, Tree, Phillip, Bartender

P.T. Barnum enters carrying a fancy/shiny top hat and the Person Dressed as a Tree is
standing sadly … like a tree.

P.T. BARNUM: (Bemoaning to his hat.) Well, hat, I have finally acquired riches. Why
can’t I get the respect and rank of the upper class that I desire?
TREE: (Waddles over to Barnum) I couldn’t help but overhear you talking to your hat.
TREE: I know a guy...
(perhaps slightly in the style of the Marvel movies?? without the swear)
Examples - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugKVeoYmk4k
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4UF1OFAc_g

TREE: (Speaking quickly.) He was born James McGinnes but he soon became an
orphan and started traveling with a circus and made a lot of money and then changed
his name to James Bailey. He is a master at management. ... Now his name is
Phillip Carlyle and he has snuck into high society leaving his circus secretly behind.
….
P.T. BARNUM: (Stare blankly with mouth open at Tree.) ...
TREE: You should talk with him.

TREE: You can probably find him at the Candy Store Bar.

Tree walks off stage and Phillip Carlyle enters and sits on a stool at the candy store
“bar” (wearing a dress shirt and nice top hat). P.T. Barnum walks up to Phillip Carlyle.

SONG 5: “Other Side” (P.T. Barnum, Phillip, singing together, Candy Store bartender)
Change “Oh Damn.” to “Oh Yeah.” and “Whiskey” to “Wine Gums” - start music at 2:00

P.T. BARNUM: Going up to Philip (who is sitting at the bar with a jar of wine gums) I
can cut you free and get you out of the drudgery of your life.

CANDY STORE BARTENDER: Give Barnum a candy jar.

P.T. BARNUM: You can trade your typical life for something colorful …Don't you wanna
get away from the same old part you gotta play? I can take you to the other side.

PHILIP: You want to cut me in… Well I hate to tell you, but it just won't happen; 'Cause
I quite enjoy the life you say I'm trapped in. I admire you, and that -whole show you do-
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You're onto something. But, I live among the swells, and we don't pick up peanut
shells!

P.T. BARNUM: Now is this really how you like to spend your days? “Wine Gums” and
misery, and parties, and plays?

PHILIP: If I were mixed up with you, I'd be the talk of the town. Disgraced and disowned
- another one of the clowns.

MUSIC PERSON: START music at 2:00


P.T. BARNUM: You would finally live a little, finally laugh a little. Just let me give you
the freedom to dream. That's a deal that seems worth taking….(2:20) But I guess I'll
leave that up to you.

2:29
PHILIP: Well it's intriguing, but to go would cost me greatly. So, what percentage of the
show would I be taking?

P.T. BARNUM: Fair enough, you'd want a piece of all the action. I'd give you seven,
we could shake and make it happen?

PHILIP: I wasn't born this morning! Eighteen would be just fine.


P.T. BARNUM: Why not just go ahead and ask for nickels on the dime?

PHILIP: Fifteen.
P.T. BARNUM: I'd do eight
PHILIP: Twelve.
P.T. BARNUM: Maybe nine

MUSIC PERSON: STOP music at 2:52


TOGETHER: Ten!

PHILLIP: (saying to P.T. Barnum) You have the ability to draw an audience and their
money, and with me as your partner, I can introduce you to High Society.

P.T. BARNUM: (Loudly, as they walk off together) We need more respectable
performances.
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Scene 4 - One more Promise: Fame (5 minutes)


Philip, P.T. Barnum, Jenny Lind, Charity
Phillip, Barnum, and Jenny Lind are on the stage.

PHILLIP: (introducing Barnum to Jenny Lind) May I introduce you to “The Swedish
Nightingale.”

P.T. BARNUM and JENNY LIND: Shake hands.

JENNY LIND: I am famous in Europe and I give most of my money to charity. Why
should I perform for you?

P.T. BARNUM: People come to my shows for the pleasure of being hoodwinked; for
once I’d like to give them something real.

P.T. BARNUM: I promise that you will be even MORE FAMOUS ... WORLD FAMOUS.

Barnum walks over to other side of stage to meet Charity walking on and they go for a
stroll arm in arm. (Phillip and Jenny step off stage.) Barnum is trying to convince
Charity that new act he is checking out is good for everyone and that the unique
performers will be fine without him there.

CHARITY: You have a beautiful home, a beautiful family, and yet you still want more.
CHARITY: Why do you need to tour the country?

P.T. BARNUM: Why did Napoleon march on Russia?

CHARITY: Napoleon was defeated.


CHARITY: When will it be enough?

P.T. BARNUM: (Assuring her.) It will all be fine.

SONG 6: “Never Enough” (Div 2, Charity, Barnum, and Jenny Lind, Together)
Charity and Barnum together on one side of the stage and Division 2 as backup singers
to sing the whole song other than the last “For Me”).

CHARITY: (Singing to Barnum.)


0:16 I'm trying to hold my breath
Let it stay this way
Can't let this moment end
You set off a dream in me
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Getting louder now


Can you hear it echoing?
0:45 Take my hand (Barnum takes Charity’s hand)
Will you share this with me?
'Cause darling without you

0:57 All the shine of a thousand spotlights

P.T .BARNUM: (letting go of Charity’s hand and walking to stage center):


All the stars we steal from the night sky
Will never be enough CHARITY: (loudly adds) “for you” and walks off stage
Never be enough

JENNY LIND and P.T. BARNUM: Walking in from other side of stage and joins in.
Towers of gold are still too little
These hands could hold the world but
It'll Never be enough
Never be enough
For me

Never, never (Barnum - Phantom voice? - like he is going mad?)


Never, never
Never, for me
For me

P.T .BARNUM: Stand and watch / listen / appreciate Jenny Lind.

JENNY LIND:
Never enough
Never enough
Never enough,
For me
For me,
For me!

JENNY LIND and P.T. BARNUM:


2:04 All the shine of a thousand spotlights
All the stars we steal from the night sky
Will never be enough
Never be enough

JENNY LIND and P.T. BARNUM:


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2:17 Towers of gold are still too little


These hands could hold the world but it'll (holding hands out to audience)
Never be enough
Never be enough ……

JENNY LIND: For me

2:37
JENNY LIND: Never, never P.T .BARNUM: (Never Enough)

JENNY LIND: Never, never P.T .BARNUM: (Never Enough)

JENNY LIND:
Never, for me
For me
Never enough

P.T .BARNUM: Never, never JENNY LIND: Never enough


P.T .BARNUM: Never, never JENNY LIND: Never enough

JENNY LIND: For me P.T .BARNUM: For me


JENNY LIND: For me

P.T .BARNUM: For me (Said as a statement.)


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Scene 5 - The Fall (10 minutes)


Narrator (or Sign Person), Parent, P.T. Barnum, Performers, Division 2

SOUND EFFECT: ♪Fire Truck Sirens.♪


P.T. BARNUM: Sitting at candy store with bucket/large jar of sour keys staring
mournfully at his hat or looking into the bucket/jar of sour keys.

NARRATOR: Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you learn what really
matters.... Jenny Lind realizes that Barnum was using her to get fame for himself and
quits. Fire destroys the theater and makes the circus performers homeless and Barnum
loses his fortune and his respect all in one night. Barnum goes back to the candy store
and orders a bucket of sour keys.

PARENT: Parent comes to the store to talk to Barnum.


PARENT: They caught the thugs who started the fire. I thought you'd like to know. It
seems not everyone likes the show.

P.T. BARNUM: (Looking depressingly up at Parent) But… Putting folks of all kinds on
stage. All colors, shapes, sizes. Presenting them as equals. It should be ‘a celebration
of humanity'.
PARENT: Well, I hope you'll rebuild. (Walks off stage as Performers enter in a line.)

PERFORMERS: The circus performs all come to the candy store.

TATTOOED PERSON: Figured you'd end up here.


CONTORTION/GYMNASTIC PERSON: Feeling sorry for yourself?

P.T. BARNUM: Folks if you have come to get paid, the money's gone. All of it.
P.T. BARNUM: Nothing left to give…

SHORT PERSON (CHARLES): Keep quiet, Barnum.


DOG BOY: You just don't get it. Our own mothers were ashamed of us.
ALBINO/ZOMBIE DANCER: Hid us our whole lives.
STRONG PERSON: Then you pull us out of the shadows.

JUGGLER: And now you are giving up on us too. Maybe you are fraud. Maybe it was
just empty promises and making a buck. But you gave us a real family. And the circus…

BEARDED LADY: That was our home.


ALL TOGETHER: We want our home back!
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P.T. BARNUM: I apologize to everyone for making everything about me. I wanted
money, respect, and fame and tried to get it by profiting off of others: Off of you.
(optional) SIGN PERSON: sign #5 - Awwww

P.T. BARNUM: I see now that we can all work together and that it will be fine regardless
of the trials; as long as we have love.

PHILLIP: (Holding up and shaking two big money bags) Oh, and thank goodness for the
profits I saved from the shows. We'll be fine.

Div 2: Enter on to the stage as Performers and Philip exit the stage.

SONG 7: “From Now On” (Barnum and Division 2)


MUSIC PERSON: START music at 1:10
JUGGLER: Playing piano 1:58-2:03?

(Standing stage center in front of Div 2 - facing audience.)


P.T. BARNUM (Sing or just speak slowly but loud and clear - like an oath)
From now on; these eyes will not be blinded by the lights
From now on; What's waited till tomorrow starts tonight … Tonight
Let this promise in me start; Like an anthem in my heart; From now on.
From now on.

CHARITY: arrives and watches from the side.


P.T. BARNUM and DIVISION 2: (Singing)
2:03 (0:54) I drank champagne with kings and queens;
The politicians praised my name
But those are someone else's dreams
The pitfalls of the man I became;
For years and years I chased their cheers
2:30 (1:16) The crazy speed of always needing more

P.T. BARNUM: (Barnum turning and walking over to Charity.)


P.T. BARNUM and DIVISION 2:
But when I stop And see you here; I remember who all this was for
And from now on; These eyes will not be blinded by the lights

From now on; What's waited till tomorrow starts tonight


It starts tonight!

3:01 (1:48) And let this promise in me start; Like an anthem in my heart
From now on, From now on Optional Barnum From now on
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DIVISION 2: repeat 3x
3:22 (2:08) And we will come back home
And we will come back home
Home, again!
3:45 Barnum From now on
DIVISION 2:
And we will come back home
And we will come back home
Home, again!

DIVISION 2: repeat 3x
3:56 (2:42) And we will come back home (rhythm sounds?)
And we will come back home
Home, again!

DIVISION 2 and P.T. Barnum form SIDE A and SIDE B of stage.


SIDE A: From now on!
SIDE B: These eyes will not be blinded by the lights!

SIDE A: From now on!


SIDE B: What's waited till tomorrow starts tonight!; It starts tonight!

DIVISION 2: (All together loudly…)


4:42 (3:26) Let this promise in me start; Like an anthem in my heart
From now on!
From now on! Optional Barnum: From now on!

DIVISION 2:
And we will come back home; And we will come back home
Home again!

(Crouched ….)
And we will come back home; And we will come back home
Home again!

(Standing up ….)
And we will come back home; And we will come back home
Home again!
MUSIC PERSON: STOP music at 5:23
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Finale (5 minutes)
Tree, Everyone

Tree enters from the side and comes to stage center to announce line and then exits
off.

TREE: Everything you ever need is the people RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.

P.T. Barnum: Standing at back of stage facing mirror and back to audience. Div 2 still in
two lines at front of stage from finishing From Now On song (blocking Barnum).

SONG 8: “The Greatest Show” (Choreograph the first minute and then form two groups
- one on each side of stage - like gates that open for actors to come through and bow.)

Woah Woah Woah (roar) Woah


Woah Woah Woah Woah Woah

P.T. Barnum: After choreograph lines open up to reveal Barnum: Barnum turns and
faces audience entering through the opening made by the choreography.

P.T. Barnum: Stepping forward and a slight bend with arm extended to the side and
then wraps around to back of stage.
0:55 Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for (woah)

1:02 Bows and Applause ...until 1:44 - music just playing in background - NOT karaoke)
ROUGHIANS 1 and 2
ROUGHIAN 3 and HULA HOOPER
CANDY STORE OWNER and PHILIP
PARENT and CHARLES
TATTOOED PERSON and CONTORTIONIST
DOG BOY and ALBINO ZOMBIE DANCER
STRONG PERSON and JUGGLER
TREE and PROP PEOPLE
BEARDED LADY and CHARITY
JENNY LIND
YOUNG BARNUM and P.T. BARNUM
SIGN PERSON (carrying sign #6 Applause)
Point to Sound and Lights

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
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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?

1:44 Divisions 1 and 2 Singing Along….


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 (Woah)

Divisions 3 and 4 enter one after another


2:18 Colossal we come these renegades in the ring (Woah)
where the lost get found in the crown of the circus king

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


It's only this moment, don't care what comes afta
It's blinding, outshining anything that you know
Just surrender 'cause you're calling and you wanna go

2:36 Where it's covered in all the colored lights


Where the runaways are running the night
Impossible comes true, intoxicating you
Oh, this is the greatest show

2:45 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

All Divisions singing along….


2:58 It's everything you ever want
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It's everything you ever need


And it's here right in front of you

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
This is where you wanna be (Edit this line out - or make it quieter)

When 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!! (Giant group fist pump)

Stop at 3:37

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