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Showing posts with label PT Barnum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PT Barnum. Show all posts
Sunday, 15 February 2026

Review: The Greatest Show On Earth, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey, 2026 Edition

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  Singing show guide Lauren Irving introduces the Greatest Show on Earth The big news of 2023 was the return of the Ringling Bros and Barnum...
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Friday, 12 July 2024

Barnum is back... in Newbury

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The circus is back in town in Newbury , where the Watermill theatre is reviving Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart ’s 1980 musical, Barnum . ...
Thursday, 30 November 2023

Review: The Greatest Show On Earth, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey, 2023

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The biggest circus story of 2023 was the return of The Greatest Show on Earth . It's a show with 150 years of history behind it. The na...
Friday, 30 June 2017

Hugh Jackman stars with fake elephant in Barnum flick The Greatest Showman

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PT Barnum Drawing by Douglas McPherson Well, the Ringling Brothers dropped the elephants - and we know what happened next - s...
Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Brian Conley is PT Barnum

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Catch Brian Conley  on tour in the musical Barnum . Check your local theatre for dates. I'll alw...
Sunday, 14 December 2014

What happens to circus tigers when they retire?

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Back in October, Alex Lacey , the English star of America's Greatest Show on Earth - the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Ba...
Friday, 21 November 2014

The Advance Man by Jamie MacVicar - Book review - an inside account of promoting the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus

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Most circus memoirs are written by performers or showmen. But it doesn’t matter how good a show is if there’s no audience to see ...
Thursday, 5 December 2013

Barnum & Bailey come to Norwich - a City of Circus for Circus250

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Christmas shopping in Prince of Wales Road in Norwich today , it was hard to imagine Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth p...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Kinky, freaky, wild and dangerous

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Kinky Friedman has been singing the same dozen songs since the early 70s. Perhaps it’s because the sometime detective novelist and ...
Wednesday, 3 July 2013

The elephant and the tram

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Perhaps this pachyderm thought the tram was going to Piccadilly Circus ... The picture, taken in 1936, is one of hundreds of fasc...
Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Jumbo - The Greatest Elephant in the World! Book review

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I’ve just had a fantastic time reading Jumbo - The Greatest Elephant in the World by Paul Chambers . Jumbo was a literally hug...