GREATEST SHOWMAN Publicity&Promotion (Media Tour Interviews)

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I think we can expect a lot of media interviews in the next month or so --

maybe it will be more convenient to put them in one exclusive thread?

Here's the first one --





Hugh and Keala make a great team!

Hopefully there is a chance that Hugh and Keala get to sing together, if only for a few moments, in the movie itself?

Oh... I wonder if Hugh ever told his surgeon that there was a bit of consequence ("the little trickle of red coming down the side of his nose" ) from singing that last song from the February 2016 workshop, when he was forbidden to do so


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With Jimmy Fallon on the TONIGHT Show --

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Keep them coming!

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Here's the full TODAY show appearance with Hugh -- Please click on the link.



www.today.com/video/hugh-jackman-it-took-over-7-years-to-get-the-greatest-showman-made-1115556419831


Loved the clip from SHOWMAN!



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It's not a usual media junket interview --

It is a production on the Great White Way!


James Corden's CROSSWALK MUSICAL to honor THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

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This is probably just the first part? Or did he leave right after -- someone tweeted that Hugh attended a LOGAN Q&A right after.


Nice Christmas gift for those attending Ellen's show -- tickets to the movie!

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www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/movies/2017/12/hugh_jackman_steps_into_the_ring_as_greatest_showman

NEW YORK — Hugh Jackman has scored with hit musicals on Broadway and onscreen, but as with Wednesday’s “The Greatest Showman,” he knows how ridiculously difficult they are to do.

“Any new musical is hard. You have to write 10 new songs, write the story and convince a studio to do an original musical for the first time in 23 years.”

Jackson and “The Greatest Showman” are Golden Globe nominees for best actor and best picture musical or comedy, as is the film’s stand-out anthem, “This Is Me.”

That song is by the Oscar and Tony winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Oscar winners for “La La Land” and Tony winners for Broadway’s current hit “Dear Evan Hansen.”


“We had them maybe two years before ‘La La Land,’ ” Jackman said.
“The music probably took us three years. When we started we didn’t know where we were going to get it from.

“And then these young guys pretty much straight out of college somehow slipped in one song we loved, and more and more songs came. And then the dances took another year.”


A showman never bothered by the truth, P.T. Barnum took a little person who became “General Tom Thumb,” then he transformed European singer Jenny Lind into a box-office sensation as The Swedish Nightingale.

“I read 37 books about Barnum, and there are 37 different versions about that man’s life,” Jackman said at the Whitby Hotel.

“He actually wrote his own biography three times. Once he got onto the second, he bought up every copy of the first and burnt the entire edition.”



“Showman” sees Barnum married to Charity (Michelle Williams) with two young daughters and a irresistible drive to succeed.

“My kids really loved it,” Jackman said of Ava, 12, and Oscar, 17.

“My daughter said, ‘This is by far the best movie you’ve ever done.’ She’s tall and would love to be a singer-dancer and a chef. I told her, ‘Chef is good.’

“My son never gives up anything but he loves Zendaya,” who plays Barnum’s trapeze star.


While “Showman” has remarkable-looking elephants, ponies and lions, Jackman revealed, “It’s all CGI. Animals don’t belong on a film set. That’s a bygone era, but you have to have the animals because it’s history, right?”

The "audition"song has now been identified as A MILLION DREAMS.

Hmmm... if you backtrack on my posts ( Soundtrack thread), you might have noticed that it was also love at first notes ( actually it is the part which the older Barnum also sings) for me with A MILLION DREAMS!




A pity that FOX did not also submit A MILLION DREAMS for Oscar consideration. It is the song that embodies how the character of the young Phineas grew up into the famous dreamer P.T.Barnum!

Also, the song FROM NOW ON has personal resonance for many people -- it could have also won many hearts and musical ears!

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With ABC --

www.xaniatube.com/hugh-jackman-calls-the-greatest-showman-a-passion-project_8bf32742e.html

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I wonder what the new musical ( idea) that he is developing is?

www.mirror.co.uk/tv/hugh-jackman-teases-possible-return-11728340

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With Kelly and Ryan --

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A fun interview in Sydney --

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Zac narrates a hair-rising incident...and Hugh shares his physical activities to keep fit - from The Graham Norton Show :

www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a846297/zac-efron-reveals-near-death-experience-hugh-jackman-graham-norton-show/



Also, this is a preview of the Norton appearances --

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Hugh Jackman is really Le Host Exraordinaire, The Master Entertainer, The Greatest Showman! And I don't think you can find any other MC handsomer than he is -- take that, Jimmy Fallon


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Hey, that is another past connection between Hugh and Zac. Kenny Ortega directed the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL series ... and also THE BOY FROM OZ ARENA TOUR in 2006. And another Hugh connection -- Kenny directed NEWSIES, a new movie musical which became the source of the Broadway musical of the same name ( led by Jeremy Jordan, who sang some of Hugh's songs at the workshop which featured FROM NOW ON).

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