'The Greatest Showman' musical sets West End dates, onsale

The new stage adaptation of the award-winning movie musical will start performances at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in April 2027.

Summary

• The Greatest Showman will start West End performances at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 14 April 2027
• Public booking opens 18 November, with tickets available through 2 October
• The Greatest Showman is adapted from the hit movie musical about PT Barnum

Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for! The Greatest Showman musical is set to perform in the West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane starting 14 April 2027 ahead of a 5 May opening. When public booking opens on 18 November, tickets will be available through 2 October.

As previously announced, Oliver Tompsett and Samantha Barks will star as PT and Charity Barnum alongside Ben Joyce as Phillip Carlyle, Vajèn van den Bosch as Jenny Lind, and Malinda Parris as Lettie Lutz. All reprise their roles from The Greatest Showman's world premiere at Bristol Hippodrome earlier this year. Further West End casting is to be announced.

The Greatest Showman is based on the 2017 film that dramatizes the life of PT Barnum and the creation of his world-famous circus. The stage version features a book by Tim Federle and the Grammy Award-winning and Emmy-nominated score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, with hit songs from the film like "A Million Dreams", "Rewrite the Stars", and "This is Me". Casey Nicholaw directs and choreographs.

Completing the creative team are Alex Lacamoire (music supervision, incidental and dance music arrangements, and orchestrations), David Korins (scenic design), Gregg Barnes and Sky Switser (costume design), Natasha Katz (lighting design), Peter Hylenski (sound design), George Reeve (video design), Lorenzo Pisoni (circus creation and design), Josh Marquette (hair and wig design), Milagros Medina-Cerdeira (makeup design), Jeremy Chernick (special dffects design), Skylar Fox (illusions and magic design), and Justin Paul (vocal and incidental music arrangements).

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