Broadway adaptation of Greatest Showman film musical — Page 3

KevinKlawitter said: "Show to open at Royal Drury Lane on West End in spring 2027"

Figured this would open in London first.

rosscoe(au) said: "Am I the only person who thought the film was watchable and not much more?
Personally I couldn’t think of a more annoying night of theatre than watching this!
But they will never miss money, it should do spectacularly well."

It baffles me. Much more than any of the other blockbuster musical films of the last twenty years. I’m with you. It’s watchable. It’s too bland to truly offend but when it went off both I and the person I watched it with shrugged and went “that was a movie.”

I’m completely baffled by the success of the movie. The screenplay is non-existent. The songs are musically pleasant, but the lyrics are so generic - maybe that’s precisely why it appeals to the masses?

This film never appealed to me but sometime in 2022, I went to a screening of it as Lin-Manuel Miranda was doing a pre-screening sit down Conversation with Hugh Jackman at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Hugh’s stories about the film, his casting, and the development of the film were fantastic but needless to say, I got up and walked out of the film about 10 minutes in. Just not for me.

Two grown men who don’t usually like musicals strongly recommended the film to me - as someone said, watchable but not much more than that. When it finished and I said it was ‘fine?’ I was told, “you’ll understand when you’re older”.

Well it’s been almost a decade and I understand it even less now. The real story of PT Barnum is more interesting, albeit less Disney-family-friendly.