"THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH" Written by Jenny Bicks

Scenes

Scene 1 — Introduction

● Nangangarap si Mr. Barnum na nagpeperform siya sa maraming tao

at kasama ang mga performer niya.

Scene 2 — Barnum and Charity’s Love Story

● Nagising si Mr. Barnum sa katotohanan at nagkakilala si Mr.

Barnum at Charity at nahulog sa isa't isa.
● Kakanta si Mr. Barnum at Charity nang sila ay bata pa at nang
lumaki.
● Nagpakasal si Mr. Barnum at Charity, kakanta ulit hanggang sa
magka-anak.

Scene 3 — Failed Museum

● Nabankcrupt ang trabaho ni Mr. Barnum at magkakantahan sila ng

mga anak niyang si Caroline at Helen.
● Bumili ng building si Mr. Barnum para sa pangarap niyang Circus,
pero hindi maganda ang takbo dahil walang gusto manood. Kaya
sinabi ng anak niya na itry yung unique like unicorn o kaya iba
pa.

Scene 4 — P.T Barnum Circus

● Nagdecide si Mr. Barnum na mamigay ulit ng flyers at nakilala ni

Mr. Barnum ang mga unique people na sinabi ng anak niya.
● Kakanta para sa unang play ng Circus. At ito 'yong part na
papasok si Mr. Bennet para sabihan ng hindi maganda ang circus ni
Mr. Barnum.
● Nakilala ni Mr. Barnum si Philip at niyaya niya ito sa circus.
Pumasok sa Circus si Philip at nainlove kay Anne.

Scene 5 — Barnum’s mistake

● Nakabili si Mr. Barnum ng bahay at naanyayaan si Mr. Barnum at

ang mga Unique people para dumalo kay Queen Victoria at nakilala
si Jenny Lind.
 ● Napapayag si Jenny Lind na kumanta at kinanta niya ang never
enough.
● Dumating ang mga magulang ni Charity at itinabiy ito ni Mr.
Barnum at umalis ang pamilya niya dahil sa nangyari. Ikinahiya ni
Mr. Barnum ang mga kasama niyang Unique people at saka kumanta ng
“This is Me”.
● Nagpunta sa isang teyatro si Anne at nandoon din si Philip.
Magiging ayos na sana sila ulit kaso nakita sila ng magulang ni
Philip at inakusa nito si Anne kaya siya umalis.

Scene 6 — Philip and Anne

● Kumanta si Philip at Anne ng Rewrite the Stars.

Scene 7 — Decision

● Nagdecide si Mr. Barnum na unahin ang show ni Jenny Lind dahil

iniisip niya na mas malaki ang kita roon at doon niya makukuha
ang pangarap niya. Kumanta si Charity at ito yung scene kung saan
laging wala si Mr. Barnum sa achievement ng anak niya sa
Ballerina at habang masaya si Mr. Barnum ang mga unique people sa
circus ay malungkot dahil sa mga iba't ibang pagkutya ng tao sa
kanila.

Scene 8 — The Downfall

● Nagusap si Jenny Lind at Mr. Barnum. Umaasa si Jenny sa relasyon

nila ni Mr. Barnum at sa huling sandali ay kumanta siya pero
nagkaroon ng scandal dahil kiniss n'ya sa mismong live si Mr.
Barnum.
● Nagkagulo sa Circus at nagbalak na rin umuwi si Mr. Barnum, kaso
ang nadatnan niya ay nasunog na ang Circus.

Scene 9 — Regret

● Dumating si Mr. Bennet, sinabi n'ya kung alam na ba niya ang

balita at about ito sa scandal nila ni Jenny Lind at ang pagquit
na rin nito sa pagkanta. Kaya umuwi si Mr. Barnum sa kanyang
bahay, pero nadatnan niya si Charity na aalis na at uuwi kung
saan siya nakatira.
● Malungkot si Mr. barnum dahil sa nangyari at dumating si Charles
at ang Unique people. Pinalakas nila ang loob ni Mr. Barnum at
kumanta ang mga ito para maibalik ang dati.
Scene 10 — We can fix this

● Sinabi ni Caroline at Helen na nasa dagat si Charity. Nagkasundo

muli ang dalawa at napagdesisyunan na buuin muli ang Circus at
naghatinna nga si Philip at Mr. Barnum at naging mag Partners.

Scene 11 — Ending

● Tent ng Circus ang nabuo nila at nandito na yung scene na

kumakanta ang lahat. Ito yung ending ng story.
1. INT. CIRCUS TENT — NIGHT

It all started when Mr. Barnum was with his performers and realized at
the end that he was only dreaming.

2. INT. CHARITY'S HOUSE — LIVING ROOM — DAY

Phineas’ father and Phineas went to Charity’s house to fix his

father’s clothes because he was a tailor.

PHINEAS FATHER
Stand up straight. Wipe that muck off. Keep up.

MAID
Arm extended, elbow out. Sip, and never slurp. Begin here,
arm extended… elbow out. Keep your cup level. Low your cup.
Shall we do it again? Arm extended, elbow out. Gracefully.

YOUNG PHINEAS: [mimic drinking]

YOUNG CHARITY: [laughs]

CHARITY’S FATHER
Charity, come here. Your dress. Is this how we have taught
you to behave?

YOUNG PHINEAS
It's my fault, sir. I made her laugh.

CHARITY’S FATHER
Well, thank you for your honesty. [slaps YP] Stay away from
my daughter.

[Sea]

YOUNG PHINEAS
How did you get out?

YOUNG CHARITY
The window. Father is sending me to finishing school. I don't
know what my future will be.

[YP sings A Million Dreams]

 YOUNG PHINEAS
Charity!

[Charity leave the mansion]

[exchange of letters, death of YP’s father, YP stealing bread].

YOUNG PHINEAS
No.

[hunchback gives apple]

YOUNG PHINEAS
Newspapers. Amazing stories from around the world.

[singing continues; “A vision of the one I see” part of YC]

[secretly putting mails for YC]
[end of A Million Dream]

MAGICIAN
Come join the Great American Railroad. Three meals a day. A
roof over your head. Fair and ample wages. Come, make your
fortune. See the open plains of America. Opportunity awaits
you sir, out on the rails.

3. EXT. CHARITY’S RESIDENCE — DAY

PHINEAS
Sir I, I know I don't come from much but I will take care of
your daughter and I will give her a life as grand as this
one.

CHARITY
Goodbye, mother.

CHARITY'S FATHER
She'll be back. Sooner or later she will get tired of your
life of having nothing and she will keep running back home.

[Train Station]
[A Million Dreams, Phineas]
[Apartment]
[A Million Dreams,”However big” Charity]
[Rooftop dance]
[A Million Dreams,”However big” Phineas and Charity]
[Apartment, Charity is pregnant]

CHARITY AND PHINEAS

For the world we're gonna make.
4. EXT. ROOFTOP — NIGHT

Mr. Barnum went home to see his family on their rooftop.

PHINEAS
Hey.

CHARITY
Oh God. You are home early.

PHINEAS
And until further notice.

CHARITY
Oh I didn't think you were along for that job.
 PHINEAS
Or any job apparently.

CHARITY
That's what makes our life together so exciting.

PHINEAS
Charity… This isn't the life I promised you.

CHARITY
But I have everything I want.

PHINEAS
What about the magic?

CHARITY
What do you call those two girls?
[look to the girls]

CHARITY
Hey, you partners, look who moseyed into the corral?

DAUGHTERS
Daddy!

PHINEAS
Come here.

CAROLINE
Did you bring a present?

PHINEAS
Present, for what?

CAROLINE
For my birthday.

PHINEAS
Your what?

CAROLINE
My birthday.

PHINEAS
It's not your birthday. Okay, I do have a present. But not
just any present. Oh no. The most amazing birthday present
ever. This extraordinary machine was originally created by
Leonardo Da Vinci 400 years ago. But the blueprints have been
lost for centuries, until just last week, on a stormy night…
when a sunken pirate ship washed up on the shores of
Nantucket. They found skeletons and treasures… and the
blueprints were recovered by none other than JW Mercantile.
The blueprints crossed my desk very briefly… but I managed to
commit them to memory… and if I had remembered correctly...

[reveal the lamp]

PHINEAS
Happy birthday, Caroline. This is a wishing machine. You tell
it your wishes... and it keeps them safe until they come true.
Even if you forget them, they are always there.

CAROLINE
Can I tell a wish?

PHINEAS
Step right up. Go ahead.

CAROLINE
I wish to marry Santa Clause.

PHINEAS
That is a good wish.

HELEN
I wish for ballet slippers.

PHINEAS
Hey, that's a good wish too.

CAROLINE
What is your wish, Mommy?

CHARITY
I wish… for happiness like this forever. For you and you… and
for your father.

CAROLINE
Boring.

CHARITY
[chuckling] Boring? Since when is happiness
ever been boring?

HELEN
Every night I lie in bed. The brightest colors fill my head.
A million dreams are keeping me awake.

HELEN AND CAROLINE

I think of what the world could be. A vision of the one I
see. A million dreams is all it's gonna take.

PHINEAS
A million dreams for the
 world we're gonna make.

5. INT. P.T BARNUM’S CIRCUS — DAY

Mr. Barnum shows to his wife Charity and two daughters Helen and
Caroline the museum.

[inside the museum]

[the family is dummbfounded

PHINEAS
[laughs] A place to be transported. A place where people can
see thing they've never seen before.

CHARITY
Wax figures?

PHINEAS
Yeah.

PHINEAS
They are all the rage in Europe. Look. Marie Antoinette with
the sore throat.

Napoleon. Come here.

[showing his family around]

PHINEAS
You, see? You have already met some of the most famous folks
from the history. But they are not all wax.

[O’ Malley enters the scene]

PHINEAS
This is the Great O'Malley. Master of sleight of hand, the
king of deception.

CAROLINE
You don't look like a magician.

O’MALLEY
I am a thief.

PHINEAS
A very good thief. I caught him taking my watch.

[O’Malley do some magic trick]

PHINEAS
You see?

HELEN
An elephant.

PHINEAS
Not just any elephant.

O’MALLEY
I'll get you something real nice to say the word.

CHARITY
Thank you.
 PHINEAS
Oh yeah. This is a ten ton bulls… straight from the plains of
Africa. And, look at that.. The tallest giraffe in the world.

HELEN
Can I climb up its leg?

PHINEAS
Absolutely not [holds Charity to talk] OK. Now, I know how it
looks.

CHARITY
If you didn't, I would be worried.

PHINEAS
I mean it just needs a little work.

CHARITY
The loan has to be paid back every month.

PHINEAS
Oh yeah, we're gonna pay. We just need customers.

CHARITY
Hundreds of them.

PHINEAS
We're gonna get them.

6. EXT. P.T BARNUM’S CIRCUS — FRONT OF MUSEUM — DAY

They are in the front of the museum and giving flyers.

PHINEAS
Welcome to the Barnum Museum. It is one hour of your time,
sir... but it will change your life. We have a shows on the
hour, every hour.

HELEN
I love your dress.

PHINEAS
Surely not for the fainted heart. I can tell you that you'll
love it. Half the price for anyone who is wearing a hat. Ho
ho, That's you, sir.

Welcome to the Barnum Museum.

[notice people don’t care]

RANDOM MAN
 Garbage.

O’MALLEY
Welcome to the Barnum Museum, where everyone...

PHINEAS
How many tickets?

O’MALLEY
Three.

PHINEAS
Three?

[Charity shows the three tickets, which means only Charity and his
daughters are the ones who buy the tickets]

7. INT. BARNUM’S PLACE — DAUGHTER’S BEDROOM — NIGHT

HELEN
Daddy. Daddy? You sell anymore tickets today?

PHINEAS
A few. Yeah. Most of 'em was rushing home, it's Friday. We
sold a few.

CAROLINE
I think you have too many dead things in your museum daddy.

PHINEAS
Do you?

HELEN
She is right. You need something alive.

Phineas
Go to sleep, both of you.

HELEN
Something sensational.

PHINEAS
That is a big word.

HELEN
That's your word.

CAROLINE
Something that isn't stuffed.

HELEN
Like a mermaid.
 CAROLINE
Or a unicorn.

HELEN
Unicorns aren't real.

CAROLINE
Well, mermaids aren't real either.

[Phineas, in his room]

8. INT. CHARLES HOUSE — LIVING ROOM — DAY

[other day, Stratton’s house]

PHINEAS
You must be Gertrude Stratton. I am looking for your son.

MRS. STRATTON
I don't have a son.

PHINEAS
The hospital record says you do. Charles, right? Age 22?

[step and pick a soldier toy]

[Charles opens the door]

PHINEAS
P. T Barnum. At your service. I'm putting together a show...
and I need a star.

CHARLES
You want people to laugh at me.

PHINEAS
Well, they are laughing anyway, kid. So, might as well get
paid.

[Charles went back to his room]

PHINEAS
I see a soldier. No, a general… riding across the stage with
a sword and gun and...
and the most beautiful uniform ever made. People will come
from all over the world and when they see him they won't
laugh.

[Charles opens the door]

PHINEAS
They will salute.
 [Phineas in his room, sketching for poster: Wanted! Unique persons,
curiosities.
Daring acts. Wonders of the world.]

9. INT. LAUNDRY SHOP — DAY

[rhytmic bonks]

PHINEAS
How is it looking girls?

RANDOM MAN
Hey. You looking for freaks? I know where you can find one of
them.

PHINEAS
Really? Come on, girls.
10. EXT. OUTSIDE THE CIRCUS — NIGHT

[Alley]

THUGS
That's right, bad boy. You are gonna protect the bearded lady?

PHINEAS
Hay... That's enough. Walter. Inside, all! Right?

THUGS
Look them run.

THUGS
We do not want your kind here.
 THUGS
Get out of here.

THUGS
That's right, you freaks.

THUGS
Your master's calling.

PHINEAS
That's quite enough, sir.

THUGS
Nothing more to look at. At your service.

PHINEAS
You print this review in every paper in New York. Half price
ticket to anyone who with it.

[Sold out]

[“Come on, Come all”, Everyone in the circus]

[ end of come alive]

11. EXT. INFRONT OF THE P.T BARNUM’S CIRCUS — DAY

VENDOR
Peanuts. Get your peanuts here. Hot, salted peanuts.

RANDOM BUYER
One for me and one for the lady.

PHINEAS
O'Malley. [caught O’Malley trying to steal a watch]

Mr. Barnum also see Mr. Bennet and talks about the circus.

PHINEAS
Ah, Mr. Bennett from the Herald. Come to take in another show,
huh?

MR. BENNETT
Tell me, Mr. Barnum, does it bother you that everything you're
selling is fake?

PHINEAS
Do these smiles seem fake? It doesn't matter where they come
from. The joy is real.

MR. BENNETT
So you are a philanthropist?
 PHINEAS
Well, hyperbole isn't the worst crime. Men suffer more from
imagining too little than too much.

MR. BENNETT
The creed of a true fraud.

PHINEAS
Mr. Bennett, when was the last time you smiled? Or had a good
laugh? A real laugh. A theater critic who can't find joy in
the theater. Now who is the fraud?

[walks away but stopped]

PHINEAS
Oh, Mr. Bennett. That word you used to describe my show,
has a nice ring to it.

[name changed into P.T. Barnum's Circus.]

12. EXT. NEW HOUSE OF BARNUM’S — FRONT OF THE HOUSE — DAY

[change location, new house]

[Charity in blindfold]

PHINEAS
This way.

CHARITY
Don't you think there is enough 'blind trust' in my life?

PHINEAS
Well, isn't that what makes it fun? Keep coming. Okay. Are
you ready?

[removes Charity’s blindfold]

CHARITY
Wow!

PHINEAS
Helen, that's for you. And, Caroline, this is for you. There
is a ballet school right down the street. Just past your
parents' house.

CHARITY
 Don't tell me you bought this house just to rub my parents
noses in your success.

PHINEAS
That was not the only reason. This is the life I promised
you. Shall we?

CHARITY
Phin… It's beautiful, but we don't need all of this.

PHINEAS
It took me 25 years, but… Welcome home, Charity Barnum.

13. INT. BALLET STUDIO — DAY

[Caroline practicing ballet, transitioning to ballet show]

[clapping as it is finished]

PHINEAS
Hey, sweetie, who is that young man over there?

CHARITY
That is Philip Carlyle. A bit of a scandal, they say. His
last play was a hit in London.

PHINEAS
Play? You pay good money to watch people stand around and
talk for two hours, and they call me a con man.

RANDOM BITCH BALLERINAS

Ew. What's that smell? Do you smell that?

Ew, something does smell

I know what it is. Peanuts.

[notice the bullying]

[out of the hall]

PHINEAS
I can see it right now. "Youngest prima ballerina in the
history of the City ballet."

CAROLINE
I'm quitting.

PHINEAS
What? Why would you quit?

CAROLINE
 I started too late. I will never catch up.

PHINEAS
Caroline, you were the best dancer on that stage. What? Do
you think I can't spot talent?

CAROLINE
Ballet takes years of hard work. It's not like the circus.
You can't just fake it.

14. BARNUM’S HOUSE — BEDROOM — NIGHT

P.T Barnum and Charity are worried for their daughter Caroline because
of what happened in the Ballet studio.

[bedroom]

PHINEAS
She can't quit. No. No, I mean... She doesn't. She just feels
out of place with the other girls.

CHARITY
Well, I should certainly hope so. I have never seen so many
little prima Donnas in my life.

PHINEAS
Yes, but those prima Donnas are the most important thing in
the world to her right now.

CHARITY
She'll learn to ignore them, just like I did.

PHINEAS
She shouldn't have to.

CHARITY
New York society will never accept us. If they did, they'd
have to stop judging… and actually do something with their
lives.

PHINEAS
This isn't about me.[kiss charity]

CHARITY
Oh... So it's different than everything else then?

PHINEAS
I just want her to be proud of who she is, of her family.

CHARITY
She is proud. We don't have to be the Carlyle's.
15. EXT. OUTSIDE THE HALL — NIGHT

Barnum approaches Philip and invites him for a drink. Barnum tries to
convince Phillip to join his circus.

[outside the hall]

PHINEAS
Mr. Carlyle. You produced this play?

CARLYLE
Yes I do, indeed. Refunds are available at front box office.

PHINEAS
P.T. Barnum.

CARLYLE
From the circus?

PHINEAS
Yes. You've been? [shakes hands]

CARLYLE
God, no. But I've seen the crowds. People leave your show
happier than when they came in. Which is much more than I can
say from my play.

PHINEAS
And yet, you have no trouble selling tickets.

CARLYLE
That's because I'm selling virtue.

PHINEAS
Can I buy you a drink?

16. INT. INSIDE THE BAR — NIGHT

[bar]

PHINEAS
I want to go after the carriage straight. Present legitimate
acts, expand our appeal… go after the snobs.

CARLYLE
If you only knew how suffocating they are.

PHINEAS
So come join our circus. You clearly have a flair for show
business. Teach me how to appeal to the highbrows.

PHINEAS
Are you serious?

CARLYLE
Mr. Barnum, I can not just run off enter into circus.

PHINEAS
Why not? Sounds thrilling isn't it?

CARLYLE
Lets just say that I find it much more comfortable… admiring
your show from afar.

PHINEAS
Comfort, the enemy of progress.

CARLYLE
Do you understand that just associating with you could cost
me my inheritance.

PHINEAS
I thought it'd cost you more than that. You would be risking
everything. But, on the other hand, well, you just might find
yourself a free man.

[beat]

[The other Side, Phineas sing]

[“Okay, my friend, you”, Carlyle]

[“Now is this really how you”, Phineas]

[“If I were mixed up with you”, Carlyle].

[But you would finally live a Little”, Phinea]

[carlyle almost leaving but comes back]

[“Fair enough”, Phinea]

[“I wasn't born this morning”, Carlyle]

[“Why not just go ahead”, Phineas]

ask for nickels on the dime?

CARLYLE
15.

PHINEAS
I'm doing eight.

CARLYLE
 12.

PHINEAS
maybe nine

Carlyle
10.

[Phineas has no money to pay the bill, Carlyle pay instead]

CARLYLE
Sir, it looks like you have yourself a junior partner.

PHINEAS
What I have is an overcompensated apprentice.

[“Don't you wanna get away…”, both] to a

whole new part you're gonna play.
'Cause I got what you need, so
come with me and take the ride.
to the other side.
[ “So if you do like i do”, circus, both still singing]

17. INT. PT. BARNUM CIRCUS — INSIDE — NIGHT

Philip saw Anne Wheeler while she was performing live in the circus,
and he fell in love with her.

CARLYLE
Who is that?

[Transition, going to the backstage]

PHINEAS
Hey. No one is buying hats back here. Get out front, go. WD,
Anne, I want to introduce my newest hire, Mr. Philip Carlyle.

WD
It's a pleasure to meet you.

CARLYLE
Yeah, pleasure.

ANNE
And what is your act, Mr. Carlyle?

CARLYLE
I don't have an act.

ANNE
Everyone has got an act.
 [Anne leave the scene]

18. INT. BACKSTAGE — DAY

O’MALLEY
Mr. Barnum!

PHINEAS
Yeah?

O’MALLEY
You better come see this.

PHINEAS
Philip, keep up.

[in the doorway, protest are heard]

O’MALLEY
[joining the protest] A bit of nasty element.

PHINEAS
They're always is, isn't it?

PHINEAS
Nothing draws a crowd crying like a crowd.

PROTESTANT
Go home you freaks.

[reading the newspaper]

PHINEAS
"Shame of the city".

"The protests amend Mr. Barnum's reputation..."

"as a previewer of the offensive and indecent."

LETTIE
"Offensive and indecent." Mr. Bennett, I'm blushing.

CAROLINE
No, I'm blushing.

CHARITY
What do you care what Bennett thinks?

LETTIE
He's a prick.

CHARLES
 And a snob.

PHINEAS
Yeah, all the snobs in the New York are reading me. Does their
thinking for them.

ANNE
What ever happened to the thriving of controversy?

PHINEAS
Yeah, well… Look, hey.. Do you have any thoughts on this?

HELEN
Philip!

[Carlyle enters the scene]

CARLYLE
As a matter of fact, I do.

PHILIP
Helen, come on.

[Helen hugs Carlyle]

PHINEAS
"The master of the Household, has it in the command of the
Queen… To invite Mr. Phineas Barnum and his theatrical troupe
to a reception at Buckingham Palace."

CHARITY
The Queen Victoria? Is this real?

CARLYLE
I had to pull a few strings. If you want society to accept
you, you may as well start at the very very top.

ANNE
Are we all invited?

CARLYLE
I guess I'll just have to tell the queen either all of us go
or none of us will.

[everyone is happy]

CHARLES
The Queen of England. Can't get much better than that.

19. QUEEN VICTORIA’S ROOM — DAY

[corridor to queen’s room]

 WD
Why aren't we in tails?

PHINEAS
We are the entertainment.

LETTIE
I don't see you in a costume.

GUARD
Your Majesty, Mr. Phineas T. Barnum and his… Oddities from
America.

[enters the room]

RANDOM GUEST
Is that real?

CARLYLE
Your Majesty, may I present Mr. Barnum.

QUEEN
The honor is mine, Mr. Barnum and I've heard all about your
little colonel from my friends in America.

CHARLES
General, ma'am.

QUEEN
You are even smaller than I imagined.

CHARLES
Well, you are not exactly reaching the top self yourself
sweetheart.

[everyone frown in disbelief]

[queen hysterically laugh, everyone do the same]

20. INT. INSIDE THE QUEENS HALL — NIGHT

While visiting the queen they also meet a Swedish singer Jenny Lind
who Barnum asks to be part of his act.
 CARLYLE
She is really luminous.

PHINEAS
Who is that?

CARLYLE
The opera singer.

PHINEAS
Singer, huh?

CARLYLE
She is the most famous performer in all of Europe. She has
sold out La Scala a dozen times. Not to mention the French
Opera.

[goes to Ms. Lind by pulling Carlyle’s arm]

CARLYLE
What are you doing?

PHINEAS
Following you… so you can introduce me to Miss Lind.

CARLYLE
Introduce you?

PHINEAS
Yeah.

CARLYLE
I don't know her.

PHINEAS
Everybody knows her. You just said so yourself.

CARLYLE
Yeah, exactly. You don't just walk up to someone right now.

PHINEAS
Why not? We are presentable. She is a person.

CARLYLE
Miss Lind. My name is Phillip Carlyle. And this extraordinary
gentleman next to me…

PHINEAS
Phineas Taylor Barnum.The pleasure is mine.

MS. LIND
Of course, you are the American. I believe I might have heard
of you.

PHINEAS
Oh well, If you've heard of me all the way over here, I must
have been doing something right.

MS. LIND
That, or something very wrong.

PHINEAS
In the world of publicity there is hardly any difference.

MS. LIND
I believe those are the words of a scoundrel, Mr Barnum.

PHINEAS
A showman, Miss Lind, just a showman. The best on my side of
the Atlantic.

CARLYLE
If you just say so yourself.

PHINEAS
I do, but I don't have to.

[signals Carlyle to agree]

CARLYLE
Oh, no, no. He is one of the best.

PHINEAS
That's very kind of you. Miss Lind, let me get to the point.
I would like to bring you to New York. And if you agree… I
will make you the most famous singer not in Europe but in the
entire world.

MS. LIND
And have you heard me sing?

CARLYLE
Absolutely.

PHINEAS
 No, I haven't. But like mine, your reputation precedes you…
and well, I trust your reputation more than my own taste,
so...

MS. LIND
I have never been to America.

PHINEAS
You will sing in the grandest theater… with the finest
orchestra in the greatest city on earth. "Jenny Lind". "One
night only." Or maybe two. And at 20% at the gate, it will be
a queen's ransom for your..

Ms. Lind
I gave most of my earnings to charity, Mr Barnum… to orphans
and widows.

CARLYLE
"Voice of a nightingale, Heart of an Angel."

PHINEAS
That's brilliant. I mean the press will go crazy with that
story.

MS. LIND
That's not a story. May I ask you something, Mr. Barnum?

PHINEAS
Anything.

MS. LIND
Why me?

PHINEAS
People come to my show for the pleasure of being hoodwinked.
Just once, I would love to give them something real.

GUARD
Miss Lind.

[new setting, outside of the music hall]

PHINEAS
Everyone is here. Look at this. Even the Winthrops.

CHARITY
Are you happy?

PHINEAS
I will be, if this works. Oh, God, I hope she can sing.

21. INT. INSIDE OF THE HALL — DAY

 [inside of the hall]

PHINEAS
What's taking her so long?

[looking outside the curtains]

CARLYLE
They are still taking their seats. Speaking of which. Tom and
Lettie, the others, they just arrived.

PHINEAS
What?

CARLYLE
Where should I put them? Your box?

PHINEAS
That box? No, that's pretty visible.

CARLYLE
Visible?

PHINEAS
The acoustics are actually better in the standing room. That's
where they should be.

COORDINATOR
Miss Lind is ready now.

PHINEAS
OK. Thank you. Thank God.

[Charity and her daughters sitting]

HELENA
This is so beautiful.

CHARITY
Isn't that beautiful?

HELENA
Yes.

CAROLINE
I love it.

[the main cast are on the back]

PHINEAS
 Ladies and gentlemen. thank you for your patience. I recently
had the privilege of hearing the most divine voice...

[Random mumbling: This isn’t the circus, Suddenly he's a connoisseur.]

PHINEAS
Now, I know that sounds like Barnum humbug… but I have 100
bottles of good champagne on ice that says that this is not
just another sideshow novelty. May I present, the Swedish
Nightingale… Miss Jenny Lind.

[Never Enough, Ms Lind]

AUDIENCE
Bravo.

22. INT. AT THE PARTY — HALL — NIGHT

After Ms. Lind sing the song never enough, they prepare a celebration
party.

[at the party]

PHINEAS
Jenny, this is my wife Charity and our girls.

MS. LIND
Of course, and I've heard so much about you. And your father
tells me you are a fan of the ballet.

CAROLINE
Yes, I'm studying ballet.

MS. LIND
Oh, are you?

CAROLINE
Of course, I am.

PHINEAS
Of course, she is.

MS. LIND
And what about you, Helen?

HELEN
You look like a princess, ma'am.

MR. BENNETT
I must admit, Barnum, she is remarkable.

PHINEAS
Enough to bring joy to the most joyless critic, isn't she?

MR. BENNETT
And in the hands of a real previewer of the art… she could be
something in this country. Shame she's fallen in with you.

PHINEAS
You really are better on the page, Mr Banner. Hard as that is
to believe.

RANDOM LADY
Oh, Mr. Barnum? I would love to meet Miss Lind.

PHINEAS
And you will meet miss Lind if you just give me a moment…

[Charity’s parents enter the scene]

CHARITY’S FATHER
Phineas.

PHINEAS
Yes.

CHARITY’S FATHER
You've done well.

Phineas
Thank you. Allow me to introduce you. Excuse me, Jenny. I
would like you to meet Charity's parents. Mr and Mrs Hallett.

MS. LIND
Ah, pleasure.

CHARITY’S FATHER
How do you do? Nice to meet you.

MS. LIND
Nice to meet you.

CHARITY
Mother.

CHARITY’S MOTHER
Hello dear. Are these...

PHINEAS
Yes, yes, those are your granddaughters.

CHARITY
Phineas, not here.
 PHINEAS
Not here? You are afraid that I'm gonna embarrass your parents
in front of their fancy friends? I really don't think that I
have that power. An insignificant man like me… was clearly
destined to lead an insignificant life.

CHARITY’S FATHER
All that fortune and still just a tailor's boy.

PHINEAS
Get out.

MS. LIND
Well, Phineas… I believe that I told you that free champagne
is a recipe for disaster.

[Charity and her daughters leave the scene]

PHINEAS
Charity.

MS. LIND
Now would everyone please raise their glasses? To Mr Barnum,
who showed once and for all… that a man's station is limited
only by his imagination.

GUESTS
To Barnum.

PHINEAS
Thank you.

GUESTS
To Mr. Barnum.

PHINEAS
Thank you.

MS. LIND
It's hard to understand wealth and privileges when you're
born into it. I sometimes don't feel like I belong here.

PHINEAS
You?

MS. LIND
I was born out of wedlock and that brought shame upon my
family. And life always manages to remind me that I don't
deserve a place in this world. And that leaves a hole that no
ovation can ever fill.

[distant laughter of circus casts]

 [Phineas block the doorway with his body]

LETTIE
Mr. Phineas. Lord, that lady can sing.

PHINEAS
I know.

CHARLES
Thinks she likes a man in uniform?

PHINEAS
I'm sure she does. What are you doing here? You got a show in
an hour, OK?

LETTIE
That's enough time for us to have at least three drinks,
right? Come on.

PHINEAS
No no. Lettie.

LETTIE
What?

PHINEAS
It's very crowder in here, okay? And I can't have you
mingling. Who's gonna pay admission if you are out there for
all the world to see. Have a great show.

[Phineas closed the door]

LETTIE
Wait...

PHINEAS
Ladies and gentlemen, a toast. Jenny, America may not know it
yet, but they are going to love you. To Miss Lind.

[This is me, Lettie]

[“Another round of bullets hits my skin”, Charles]

[“We are bursting through the barricades”, Lettie]

[“we are warriors”, everyone]

[”Yeah, that's what we've become.” Lettie]

[I Won't let them break me down to dust”, everyone]

[“This is me”, circus]

[“And I know that I deserve your love,” Lettie]

[“Look out cause here I come”, everyone]

23. INT. CIRCUS OFFICE — DAY

Barnum and his performers are back in the Circus, but Barnum is trying
to get a tour again to meet Ms. Lind for another show.

[Circus office]

CARLYLE
Why can't you just put more shows in New York? Why do you
need to tour the country?

PHINEAS
Why did Napoleon march on Russia?

CARLYLE
Napoleon was defeated.

PHINEAS
Napoleon didn't have a 60 piece orchestra.

CARLYLE
A 60 piece orchestra?

PHINEAS
Just get the cheapest musicians you can, you watch that.

CARLYLE
We still have to aboard them.

PHINEAS
We’ll get married ones. They can share a bunk. O'Malley,
that's Caroline's piggy bank.

[leave the office]

CARLYLE
Costumes sets? Fireworks? Inside theaters?

PHINEAS
That's genius.

CARLYLE
No. These are the most famous theaters in the country. They
make you buy their seats in advance.

PHINEAS
Yeah, yeah. I took out a loan.
 CARLYLE
And we have to pay Jenny?

PHINEAS
It was a large loan, okay?

CARLYLE
You're not gonna see a penny of profit until your 40th show.

PHINEAS
41st actually.

CARLYLE
You're risking everything you've built here.

PHINEAS
How do you think I build it? We'll have plenty of profits to
go around after this.

CARLYLE
P.T?

PHINEAS
What?

CARLYLE
Your attention has been divided long enough. Our gate is down,
we have more protesters every day.

Phineas
You just need to get people to come back. "If you haven't
been to Barnum Museum lately… You have not been to the Barnum
Museum."

CARLYLE
They come to see you. Your crazy ideas, your new acts, the
unusual.

PHINEAS
Then have you show them your smile. That would be unusual.
Keep rehearsing. Just make it very clear that I expect them
to afford you all the deference you deserve… And that they
should be nice to you anyway.

[Phineas leave the scene]

LETTIE
Ain't that a sight for sore eyes?

CHARLES
He couldn't even say hello. Or goodbye.
 CARLYLE
He is going on tour. Sorry guys.

LETTIE
Pull yourself together, Carlyle. Don't you have somewhere to
be?

24. INT. INSIDE A THEATER PLACE — NIGHT

[Theater]

ANNE
Anne Wheeler. Mr. Barnum said he left a ticket for me. I'm
sorry.

[clerk handed the tickets]

ANNE
I believe this one supposed to be one.

CARLYLE
No, there's meant to be two. Wasn't sure you'd come if I
asked.

[Random distant voice: Five minutes to curtains.]

ANNE
I've always wanted to go to the theater.

CARLYLE’S FATHER
Phillip, is that you?

CARLYLE
Mother. Father. This is Anne Wheeler.

CARLYLE’S FATHER
Phillip, have you no shame? To associate yourself with that
Barnum business is one thing… but parading around with that
elf.

[Anne walks out]

CARLYLE
Anne. How dare you speak
to her like that?

CARLYLE’S MOTHER
You forget your place, Phillip.

CARLYLE
 My place? Mother, if this is my place, then I don't wanna be
a part of it.

25. INT. INSIDE THE CIRCUS — NIGHT

[Circus]

CARLYLE
Anne. They are small minded people.

[Tries to hold Anne’s hand but she avoided it]

CARLYLE
Why do you care what they say?

ANNE
It's not just them. You’ve never had somebody look at you the
way your parents looked at me. The way everyone would look at
us.

[Rewrite the stars, Carlyle]

[“You think it's easy?” Anne]
[“All I want is to fly with you” both]
[“You know I want you.” Anne]

[Waks out alone the Circus, leaving Carlyle alone inside]

26. BARNUM’S HOUSE — BEDROOM — DAY

P.T Barnum is packing his things because he is going for a tour

with Ms. Lind.

[Phineas packing his things]

CHARITY
First it was buying a house on the same street as my parents.
Then meeting the queen. Then bringing Jenny Lind, and my
father the other night. When will it ever be enough for you?

PHINEAS
I am doing this for Caroline and Helen.

CHARITY
Look around you. They have everything.

PHINEAS
You don't understand.

CHARITY
I do.

PHINEAS
 No. You don't understand! How could you? My father was treated
like dirt. I was treated like dirt. My children will not be.

CHARITY
You don't need everyone to love you, Phin. Just a few good
people.

PHINEAS
I know that.

CHARITY
Thank you.

SERVANT
Sir.

DAUGHTERS
No. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy, no. Wait.

[the carriage left]

DAUGHTERS
Daddy.
Wait, Daddy.

[Tightrope, Charity]

[shows scene of Phineas’ absence]

[The circus is falling down]

27. MS. LIND’S HOUSE — LIVING ROOM — DAY

[Phineas and Ms. Lind sitting on a couch]

MS. LIND
"It is as though we've learned for the first time..." what
singing really is. Miss Lind deserves our nation's highest
esteem and lavish ovations.

PHINEAS
I mean...

MS. LIND
The world at our feet. Well, Mr. Barnum. This...
Is… [pouring wine then bringing it to Phineas]to make dreams
come true.

PHINEAS
Thank you, Jenny. It's two hours to curtain.

MS. LIND
I've given you the world, haven't I?
 PHINEAS
I, I should go. I have become a distraction. I'm sorry, Jenny.
You should finish your tour without me.

MS. LIND
What? You're leaving?

PHINEAS
The itinerary is well in hand.

MS. LIND
So that's it.

PHINEAS
What do you mean?

MS. LIND
I'm just another your acts.

PHINEAS
Jenny.

MS. LIND
I'm done.

PHINEAS
Jenny, Jenny, please. You have to finish the tour.

MS. LIND
Must I?

PHINEAS
It will ruin me.

MS. LIND
When you're careless with other people Mr. Barnum… you bring
ruin upon yourself.

PHINEAS
I have risked everything.

MS. LIND
Well, so did I. And seems we've both lost.

28. INT. STAGE — NIGHT

Ms. Lind will sing for a last time before she quit her passion for
being a singer and kiss Mr. Barnum to create a scandal.

[Stage]
[“All the stars we steal”, Ms. Lind]
 PHINEAS
Thank you.

[Ms. Lind kissed Phineas]

PHINEAS
What was that?

MS. LIND
That was goodbye.

29. INT. INSIDE THE CIRCUS — NIGHT

[CIRCUS]
{People are leaving]

CARLYLE
Thank you very much for coming. Say your fancy neighbors.
What a beautiful show. Who enjoyed yourselves? You? Tell
everyone how much fun you had at the circus. New acts every
night.

THUG
Hey, ringmaster.

CARLYLE
Gentlemen, I am gonna have to ask you to leave.

THUG
This is our town, son. We think you should leave, you and
your freaks. And yours spooks.

CARLYLE
Sir. I will only ask once more. Then what, boy?

[fist fights]
[The circus was set on fire]

After the fight, one of the thugs throw something to create a fire and
after that, the circus was set in fire.

30. EXT. STREET — NIGHT

Barnum comes back to New York to meet his family, but they hear what
happened to the circus and automatically run into it.

[Phineas comes back to New York]

DAUGHTERS
Daddy.
 [his family run towards him with open arms and hug him]

DAUGHTERS
Daddy. Daddy!

PHINEAS
Girls. You have grown so much.

CHARITY
What made you decide to come back early?

PHINEAS
I missed you.

CHARITY
That sounds awful.

31. EXT. INFRONT OF THE CIRCUS — NIGHT

[Firetruck passed: Fire. Out of the way. Fire!]

GUARDS
Hurry, it's coming from the circus.

PHINEAS
Girls, stay with me. Come, quickly.

CARLYLE
Everyone! Stay close.

PHINEAS
Phillip, is everyone out? Is everyone okay?

CARLYLE
Yeah

PHINEAS
The animals?

O’MALLEY
We set them free. What else could we do?

CARLYLE
WD, where is Anne?

WD
Where is Anne?

[Carlyle run towards burning circus]

PHINEAS
No, Phillip.
 WD
Anne!

GUARD
No. Stop.

PHINEAS
You can not go inside.

FIRE FIGHTERS
Keep pumping.

O’ Malley
WD.

[restraining WD for entering the circus]

[Anne showed up]

RANDOM CIRCUS CAST

There she is.

PHINEAS
Phillip.

[Phineas followed Carlyle]

CAROLINE
Daddy.

HELEN
No dad.

[The circus collapsed]

BOTH
Daddy.

CHARITY
No.

GUARDS
Stay back, please.

[Phineas come back with Carlyle that is unconscious]

DAUGHTERS
Daddy.

GUARD
Stretcher, stretcher.
 PHINEAS
He has taken a lot of smoke. He's still breathing.

GUARD
Let's get him on. Up.

32. EXT. OUTSIDE THE CIRCUS — DAY

P.T. Barnum was picking things outside the circus when Mr. Bennett
suddenly approached him because of his situation.

[Circus]
[Phineas picking things]

RANDOM MAN
Here we go. Come on, straight ahead. If you had come to gloat
I wouldn't.

[Phineas sat on a step of stairs]

MR. BENNETT
They caught the thugs who started the fire. I thought you'd
like to know.

[brush off the place where he wanted to seat]

MR. BENNETT
I never liked your show. But I always thought the people did.

PHINEAS
They do.

[Mr. Bennett drinks an alcohol and share the bottle of it to Phineas]

MR. BENNETT
Mind you, I wouldn't call it art.

PHINEAS
Of course not.

MR. BENNETT
But… Putting folks of all kinds on stage. All colors, shapes,
sizes. Presenting them as equals. Another critic might have
even called it 'a celebration of humanity'.

PHINEAS
I would have liked that.

MR. BENNETT
Well, I hope you'll rebuild.

PHINEAS
 I mean, thank god for Jenny's tour.We can borrow off the
profits. We'll be fine.

MR. BENNETT
You don't know?

[Mr. Bennett give the news paper that he is using as a mat to sit to
Phineas]

MR. BENNETT
I'm sorry.

33. INSIDE THE BARNUM’S MANSION — DAY

Charity decided to go back to her house after she found out what
happened when Barnum was with Ms. Lind.

[Transition: Open the doors on their house]

PHINEAS
Charity? Oh God, Charity. I am…
[Charity have her things packed and ready to leave]

CHARITY
I don't wanna talk to you.

PHINEAS
Nothing happened. Ouch, nothing happened.

CHARITY
It's on the cover of every paper in New York.

PHINEAS
Because she orchestrated the photo. I am not in love with
her.

CHARITY
Of course, you're not. Not with her, not with me, not with
anyone. Just you and your show.

PHINEAS
What are you doing?

CHARITY
I'm going home.

PHINEAS
This is your home.

CHARITY
The bank... They are evicting us.
 [Charity gives the paper of notice]

CHARITY:
Why didn't you ask me before? I would have said yes. I never
minded the risk, but we always did it together.

[Closed the door]

34. INT. AT THE BAR — DAY

[at the bar, phineas is sitting and drink]

Barnum is drinking a alchol because of the problems he is facing right

now, but Charles finds him and climbs up onto the bar and takes a
seat on Barnum’s top hat.
CHARLES
Figured you'd end up here. Feeling sorry for yourself?

[every circus cast enters]

He is followed by the rest of the circus performers, who enter

the bar and convince Barnum that family is more important
than money.

PHINEAS
Folks if you have come to get paid, the money's gone. All of
it. Nothing left to give...

LETTIE
Shut up, Barnum. You just don't get it. Our own mothers were
ashamed of us. Hid us our whole lives. Then you pull us out
of the shadows. And now you are giving upon us too. Maybe you
are fraud. Maybe it was just about making a buck. But you
gave us a real family.

WD
And the circus… That was our home. We want our home back.

[From Now On, Phineas]

[“From now on”. They drink and cheers together]
[“from now on. And we will come back home home again.” everyone]

[“These eyes will not be” phineas running to ride a train]

blinded by the lights!
35. EXT. AT THE BEACH — DAY

Barnum knows where to find Charity—in the same spot where they met
growing up. Charity forgives Barnum and takes him back. Barnum,

[Beach]

PHINEAS
I have brought hardships on you and our family. You warned
me… and I wouldn't listen. I just wanted… I wanted to be more
than I was.

CHARITY
I never wanted anything but the man I fell in love with.

[they hugged and kissed omg]

36. EXT. AT THE CIRCUS — DAY

[Circus]

CARLYLE
The bank said no?

PHINEAS
Emphatically. And repeatedly. I don't think there is a bank
left in this country… I can fool into loaning me more money,
so… I'm really sorry to disappoint you all.

CHARLES
Don't worry, Barnum. We've gotten used to it by now.

Carlyle
You know, Barnum… when I first met you… I had an inheritance,
claim… and an invitation to every party in town. And now
thanks to you. All that's gone. All that's left is this
friendship, love and work that I adore. You brought joy into
my life.

LETTIE
Into all our lives.
 LORD OF LEEDS
Yeah.

PHINEAS
I need a bank who takes joy as collateral.

CARLYLE
They may not… But I will. I own 10% of the show. Knowing who
I was working for… I had the good sense to take my cut weekly.
Phineas; Phillip, I can't let you gamble it on me...

ANNE
Sure you can.

LETTIE
Don't turn sensible on us now.

CARLYLE
Partners. Fifty fifty.

[shakes hands]

PHINEAS
Partners.

CARLYLE
The only this is...I don't know how we're gonna afford a
building.

PHINEAS
Right. [thinking] We don't need a building. Real estate
in Manhattan is a terrible investment. I can get a land down
by the docks for almost nothing. All we need is a tent.

37. INT. CIRCUS — ENDING OF THE GREATEST SHOWMAN — NIGHT

[children running]

CHILD
Come on.

[“Colossal we calm these renegades in the rain”, Phineas]

[“This is where you wanna be.” Lettie, passing the zattana]
[Phineas runs to Carlyle to give his zattana]

PHINEAS
This is for you.

CARLYLE
What are you going to do?
 PHINEAS
Watching my girls grow up. The show must go on

[“This is the greatest show.” Carlyle then together]

[The song continues playing while showing both, Carlyle and Phineas
situation, having happy ending]

[THE END]