Anyone else obsessed with The Greatest Showman?

[Huskylover1]

Can't stop listening to the songs!

I love it too but the Reimagined album is just awful, absolutely sick of hearing the tracks on the radio at the moment, none of them are a patch on the originals.

I found it really hard work, DH gave up half way through, I forced myself to keep going until the end.
The songs all sounded the same, I couldn’t make out one scene from another... The plot was fuzzy.
However, I liked the opera singer & Zendaya. Would have liked more dialogue / stories for the “freaks” too.

Like the music and there's some good visual stuff, but the story is rubbish. I'm also uncomfortable with the way it presents Barnum as a straightforward nice guy. One particularly shocking part of the story not mentioned in the film is that he bought an elderly slave to put on display and publicly dissected her body when she died.

Songs get me

No. I thought it was average. Never Enough got all these plaudits but she's not even that great a singer and it goes on too long.

Anyone ever thought of going to a sing-a-long version? I think the Prince of Wales Theatre was doing one - would be good to take the kids. It's the kids that want to do it, honest...

I think you mean Prince Charles Cinema. It’s very near the Prince of Wales Theatre which is housing The Book of Mormon. Probably don’t want to get them mixed up if you have kids

Nope. The film was ok and I did buy the album but I skip half the songs due to that horrendous warbler overpowering everyone else.

The actress who played Jenny Lind who performed never enough was I think the only one who didn't sing herself. It was actually sung by Loren Allred and Rebecca Ferguson mimed it.

Tried to watch it when it was on over Christmas. None of us got engaged by it and switched it off after about 40 mins. Don't get the fascination at all (and I'm a musicals fan in general - love La La Land, Sound of Music etc etc).

The bartender is played by Daniel
Cloud Campos - he’s a well-known choreographer and dancer, and he choreographed the scene.

That reimagine album is brutal.

Ugh no.

Nope. I have serious issues with the movie portrayal of PT Barnum.

www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/hugh-jackman-s-role-p-t-barnum-helps-erase-showman-ncna831991

Film is bloody awful, but the songs are great.

Rewrite the Stars is my favourite.
Slightly in love with Zac Efron singing that...and I have a wife