The Greatest Show

Album: The Greatest Showman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
Charted: 20 88
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Songfacts®:

  • This song plays at the beginning and end of The Greatest Showman, a musical movie inspired by the story of P. T. Barnum's creation of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the lives of its star attractions.
  • Barnum is played in the movie by Hugh Jackman. The Australian actor is the primary vocalist on this tune and he is joined by Keala Settle (who portrays Lettie Lutz), Zac Efron (Phillip Carlyle), Zendaya (Anne Wheeler).
  • The song represented Hugh Jackman's first visit to the Hot 100. However, this wasn't the Aussie's first musical contribution. In 2004, Jackman won a Tony Award for his Broadway portrayal of Australian songwriter and performer Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. A decade later, he lent his voice to the soundtrack to Les Miserables, which topped the Billboard album chart in January 2013. Jackman also showed off his musical chops when he duetted with Barbra Streisand on the song "Any Moment Now" from her 2016 chart-topping album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway.
  • This was covered by Panic At The Disco for The Greatest Showman: Reimagined, a re-recording of the original soundtrack for the musical movie by various well known recording artists.

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