First there's the interactive pre-show - be sure to arrive an hour before curtain up as there are fortune tellers, barking booths, tumbling and close up magic to enjoy in the spaces around the Empress Museum's barn-like big top.
Then there are Pasek and Paul's soaring tunes from the hit film The Greatest Showman, every one of them, played live! The likes of Re-write the Stars, This is Me, A Million Dreams, Never Enough and From Now On should be familiar to most.
Instead Creative Director Simon Hammerstein awkwardly grafts the songs onto a barely comprehensible plot about Aaliya Mai's young 'Roustabout' Max whose stroppy trapeze artist boyf doesn't want her to accept the invite from Simon Bailey's ringmaster to take over.
Happily Hammerstein is masterful at marshalling frenetic eye-popping bursts of activity with twirling aerialists, contortionists, cyr-wheelers, and hand balancers accompanying lung-bursting uplifting ballads.
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