Disney Sets The Greatest Showman for 2027 West End Debut With Oliver Tompsett, Samantha Barks
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Updated · Deadline · Aug 15
Disney Sets The Greatest Showman for 2027 West End Debut With Oliver Tompsett, Samantha Barks
3 articles · Updated · Deadline · Aug 15
Summary
Spring 2027 is the target for Disney’s The Greatest Showman musical at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, with Oliver Tompsett cast as P.T. Barnum and Samantha Barks as Charity Barnum.
Disney unveiled the West End opening and principal cast at D23 after the adaptation completed a sold-out pre-West End run at the Bristol Hippodrome earlier this year.
Ben Joyce, Vajèn van den Bosch and Malinda Parris round out the announced leads, while further casting is still to come.
The stage version keeps Pasek and Paul songs from the 2017 film — including “This Is Me” and “Rewrite the Stars” — and adds new material, with a book by Tim Federle and direction by Casey Nicholaw.
The production is Disney Theatrical Group’s first stage adaptation of a 20th Century Studios title, and last year’s reporting said the project was also eyeing Broadway.