The Greatest Showman - The New Musical

The new stage adaptation of The Greatest Showman, based on the 2017 smash-hit film will premiere at the Bristol Hippodrome in Spring 2026.

The musical will feature the GRAMMY® Award-winning and Academy Award®-nominated songs by Emmy®, GRAMMY, Oscar®, and Tony® winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen, Disney's forthcoming film Snow White), including “The Greatest Show”, “A Million Dreams”, “Come Alive”, “Rewrite the Stars” and the Golden Globe® Award-winning “This Is Me”, together with their brand new songs written especially for the musical. The book is by Emmy nominee Tim Federle (Ferdinand, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Tuck Everlasting).

The Greatest Showman will be directed and choreographed by two-time Tony Award-winning Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Disney's Aladdin, Mean Girls and the forthcoming production of Disney's Hercules, opening at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in June).

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Creative Team

Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
Composers

Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are among the most acclaimed songwriters of their generation, seamlessly shifting between pop music, musical theatre, film, stage and television as composers, lyricists and producers.

They are best known for their Oscar, Grammy, and Tony-winning work on La La Land, The Greatest Showman and Dear Evan Hansen, each of which spawned albums that landed in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, including multiple weeks at #1 for The Greatest Showman, which in 2018 was the world's best-selling album. They recently joined a rarefied list of artists by achieving EGOT status with their first Emmy Award win for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for the song "Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It", co-written with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, for Hulu's musical-themed third season of Only Murders in the Building, on which they also served as consulting producers. In total, Benj and Justin have each won two Tonys, two Grammys, an Emmy and an Oscar across five distinct projects.

Their song "City of Stars" (co-written with Justin Hurwitz) from La La Land won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song, with "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" from the film also nominated for the Academy Award in the same category. They won their second Golden Globe for "This Is Me" (Academy Award and Grammy Award nominations) from The Greatest Showman, for which they also won the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. The stage adaptation of the hit musical film is currently in development at Disney. For their original musical Dear Evan Hansen — which won six Tony Awards including Best Musical — the duo received an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Olivier Award, a Grammy Award, and the Tony Award for Best Score.

Their recent film and television credits include Apple's original live-action musical Spirited, for which their song "Good Afternoon" was shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Original Song; a full song score for Sony's live-action hybrid musical Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, with songs performed by Shawn Mendes; Disney's live-action Aladdin, featuring the Oscar-shortlisted song "Speechless"; Dreamworks Animation's Trolls; Amazon's comedy series Harlem; Apple TV+'s Dear Edward; NBC's Smash; The CW's musical episode of The Flash; the Amazon concert documentary Pink: All I Know So Far (Grammy nomination for "All I Know So Far" co-written with Pink); and FX's sports documentary television series, Welcome to Wrexham.

Benj and Justin were awarded their second Tony Awards as co-producers of the Best Musical winner A Strange Loop, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. They made their Broadway composing debut with their Tony-nominated score for A Christmas Story, an adaptation of the classic holiday film, further adapted into a live telecast for Fox, for which they wrote the new song "In the Market for a Miracle" which marked their first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. They additionally received a Daytime Emmy nomination for their song "Unlimited" featured in an Old Navy commercial.

Their early theatre work includes the acclaimed musical Dogfight (Lucille Lortel Award for Best New Musical); the children's musical James and the Giant Peach and the popular song cycle Edges. Among their numerous honours, they became the youngest winners ever of the Jonathan Larson Award and the first writers for stage or screen to be honoured with the ASCAP Vanguard Award.

Tim Federle
Book

Tim Federle is an Emmy and DGA-nominated producer, writer, and director.

He created and served as showrunner for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series on Disney+, which earned fourteen Emmy nominations and a Television Critics' Association Award nomination for Outstanding Teen Series.

Tim wrote and directed the film Better Nate Than Ever, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Best Screenplay, as well as a Directors Guild of America nomination.

He co-wrote Ferdinand, which was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, and for which Tim won the Humanitas Prize.

On Broadway, he co-wrote the libretto for Tuck Everlasting, and began his career as a dancer in multiple shows, including Gypsy, directed by Sam Mendes, and The Little Mermaid.
His many books include Tequila Mockingbird, the best-selling cocktail recipe book of all time, and his debut novel, Better Nate Than Ever, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and won the Lambda Literary Award.

Tim's production company, Chorus Boy, is under a multi-year overall deal with Disney TV.

Casey Nicholaw
Director and Choreographer

Current Broadway: Co-director and choreographer of The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for co-director and nominations in the same categories for choreography), Olivier Award winner for Best Choreography; Disney's Aladdin (2014 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award nominations for Best Choreography), entering its 12th year at the New Amsterdam Theatre.

Currently or recently represented in the West End as director and choreographer of Dreamgirls; The Book of Mormon and Disney's Aladdin.

Other Broadway credits as director/choreographer: Some Like It Hot (2023 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Choreography); The Prom (2019 Tony nomination for Best Direction); Mean Girls (2018 Tony nominations for Best Direction and Choreography); Tuck Everlasting; Something Rotten! (2015 Tony nomination for Best Direction); Elf: The Musical; The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations); Monty Python's Spamalot directed by Mike Nichols (2005 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Choreography).

Additional New York credits: for City Center Encores!, the highly acclaimed productions of The Most Happy Fella, Anyone Can Whistle and Follies (direction/choreography).

Next up: Disney's Hercules at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London this summer.

Disney Theatrical Group

Disney Theatrical Group, a division of The Walt Disney Studios, was formed in 1994 and operates under the direction of Andrew Flatt, Thomas Schumacher and Anne Quart. Worldwide, its ten Broadway titles have been seen by more than 200 million theatregoers and have been nominated for 62 Tony Awards, winning Broadway's highest honour 20 times. The company's inaugural production, Beauty and the Beast, opened in 1994, playing a remarkable 13-year run on Broadway and produced in replica productions around the world over four decades.

In November 1997, Disney made theatrical history with the opening of The Lion King, which received six 1998 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Director, Julie Taymor, who became the first woman in Broadway history to the win the award. Surpassing 25 landmark years on Broadway, it has welcomed 124 million visitors worldwide to date and has nine productions currently running worldwide. The Lion King has played over 100 cities in 24 countries on every continent except Antarctica and its worldwide gross exceeds that of any film, Broadway show or entertainment title in box office history. Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida opened on Broadway  next, winning four 2000 Tony Awards. It was followed by  Mary Poppins, a co-production with Cameron Mackintosh, which opened in London in 2004 and went on to enjoy a six year Tony-winning Broadway run. Tarzan®, Tony-nominated for its 2006 Broadway premiere, went on to become an international hit with an award-winning production enjoying a ten-year run in Germany. In January 2008, The Little Mermaid opened on Broadway and was the best-selling new musical of that year.

Disney Theatrical Group opened two critically acclaimed productions on Broadway in 2012, receiving seven Tony Awards between them: Peter and the Starcatcher and Newsies, each of which enjoyed a two-year run and launched North American tours, with Newsies playing a record-breaking Fathom Events in-cinema release. Aladdin, Disney Theatrical Group's 2014 hit, continues its smash Broadway run. It has launched nine productions on four continents and been seen by more than 21 million guests. Disney Theatrical Group's newest hit, the 2018 Tony-nominated Best Musical Frozen has launched eight productions around the world. Other stage ventures have included the world-premiere of Hercules in Hamburg, Germany, the Olivier-nominated West End hit Shakespeare in Love, stage productions of Disney's High School Musical, Der Glöckner von Notre Dame in Berlin and King David in concert on Broadway.

Disney Theatrical Group has collaborated with preeminent theatres in the US to develop new stage musicals including The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Freaky Friday. As a part of the recent acquisition of 21st Century Fox, Disney Theatrical Group also heads the Buena Vista Theatrical banner, which licenses Fox titles for stage adaptations including Anastasia, Moulin Rouge! The Musical and Mrs. Doubtfire.

Next on the Disney Theatrical schedule: The premiere of Hercules in London's West End, the North American tour of a reimagined production of Beauty and the Beast, and the ongoing development of the smash film The Greatest Showman as a stage musical.

With dozens of productions currently produced or licensed, a Disney musical is being performed professionally somewhere on the planet virtually every hour of the day.