No theatre in the country has staged musicals with more panache of late than Chichester, and director Timothy Sheader provides an elegant production that manages simultaneously to convey the tawdry razzle-dazzle of the circus
Here's the always delightful Jim Dale singing "There is a Sucker Born Every Minute" from the musical Barnum.
Barnum, 1980 Glenn Close, Jim Dale, Marianne Tatum
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Barnum, 1980
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Ensemble costumes
Barnum poster
Jim Dale reprising his role as 'Barnum', but at the London Palladium where the role was created by Michael Crawford.This is from a TV special on New Year's E...
Barnum
Christopher Fitzgerald and Tamsin Carroll star in BARNUM at the Chichester Festival Theatre. This exhilarating musical follows the irrepressible imagination and dreams of Phineas T Barnum, America's Greatest Showman. The story of his life and his marriage to Chairy reveals a couple who looked at the world from opposite sides of the spectrum, and also reveals that she was the practical one who made his dreams come true. We follow the legendary showman's life as he lit up the world with the colour, warmth and excitement of his imagination and finally teamed up with J A Bailey to create Barnum and Bailey's Circus - the Greatest Show on Earth. BroadwayWorld brings you just-released production shots of the cast in action below!
In a brand new academic article published by Musical Quarterly, I tell the story of how P. T. Barnum used strategies of branding to create the most successful music tour of the 19th century. The singer he brought to America was Jenny Lind. Lind was already a star in Europe, but was relatively unknown in America before signing a contract with Barnum. Barnum did something unprecedented:
