Updated
Updated · Playbill · Aug 15
The Greatest Showman Musical Sets Spring 2027 West End Premiere After Sell-Out Bristol Run
Updated
Updated · Playbill · Aug 15

The Greatest Showman Musical Sets Spring 2027 West End Premiere After Sell-Out Bristol Run

3 articles · Updated · Playbill · Aug 15

Summary

  • Spring 2027 will bring The Greatest Showman to London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane, with exact performance dates still to be announced.
  • The West End transfer follows a sell-out world premiere at The Bristol Hippodrome earlier this year, giving Disney Theatrical Group a proven launchpad for the larger London run.
  • Oliver Tompsett and Samantha Barks will reprise the leads as P.T. Barnum and Charity Barnum, joined again by Ben Joyce, Vajén van den Bosch and Malinda Parris, with more casting pending.
  • Casey Nicholaw directs and choreographs the adaptation of the 2017 Hugh Jackman film, with songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul expanded by new material written for the stage.

Insights

Can Oliver Tompsett step out of Hugh Jackman's massive shadow to redefine P.T. Barnum for the West End next spring?
How will Drury Lane's live stage replicate the breathtaking cinematic circus illusions that defined Barnum's world?
Will the newly added songs by Pasek and Paul eclipse the iconic anthems that made the film a global phenomenon?