Hugh Jackman on Potential for GREATEST SHOWMAN Stage Adaptation: 'The Musical Really Works Live'

As previously announced, 20th Century Fox film chairman-CEO Stacey Snider recently told The Hollywood Reporter that there are talks to create a stage adaptation of the Hugh Jackman-led musical film, following its box office success. For the first time, Jackman commented on this in an interview with Forbes.

"We were talking about a live version of the show even before [the movie] came out," he said. "There was a discussion at one point in the eight-year journey of this movie of maybe going live first."

While that idea was ultimately scrapped, Jackman still thinks that this musical could work best on a stage.

"When Keala Settle got up, stood in the middle of a room and sang 'This Is Me,' with no makeup, no nothing, no anything, there was not a dry eye in the house," he said. "The musical really works live."

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Inspired by the imagination of P. T. Barnum, "The Greatest Showman" is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. "The Greatest Showman" is directed by exciting new filmmaker, Michael Gracey, with songs by Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ("La La Land") and starring Academy Award nominee Hugh Jackman. Jackman is joined by Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams, Zendaya, Zac Efron and Rebecca Ferguson. The film hit theaters on December 20th!