The Greatest Showman is a 2026 stage musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a book by Tim Federle. It is an adaptation of 20th Century Studios's 2017 film of the same name, which is a heavily fictionalized depiction of the life of P. T. Barnum, a showman and entertainer, up to the point when he created his first circus. It premiered in the Bristol Hippodrome on March 15, 2026.