better known as P.T. Barnum, was one of the original sensationalists. Best remembered for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus, by his own admission, Barnum was first and foremost a showman.

From *Barnum* and *Matilda* to the thrilling new production *Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular*, London has ...

March 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1881, P.T. Barnum and James A. Bailey merged their circuses to form The Greatest Show on Earth. The circus later ... for the first time since taking ...

The FSU/Asolo Conservatory presents a play about the first Chinese woman to come to the U.S. in a unique setting that mirrors ...

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Ringling Brothers last rolled into Birmingham in 2017 on its classic mile-long circus train that traditionally housed ...

ON a cold February day in 1844, a small group of travellers disembarked their ship at the port of Liverpool. There was no welcoming party; no ...

Performers from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus visited the Children's Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham ...

That is the "gist" of Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart's "zesty" 1980 musical about the famed 19th-century American showman, P.T ... Barnum's fascinating life story, charting his rise to fame as a ...