http://www.thewrap.com/hugh-jackmans-greatest-showman-footage-stuns-emotional-inclusive-musical-number/
Seven years in the making, and five consecutive musical workshops later, Hugh Jackman looks like he has a bona fide box office and awards hit with “The Greatest Showman.”The triple-threat showed in person to the 20th Century Fox CinemaCon presentation to give a peek of his original musical based on the life and innovation of P.T. Barnum — the man behind the game-changing Barnum & Bailey Circus.“I did not have this part in the bag just because I was a producer, I had to audition. My biggest competition was Chris Aronson,” Jackman joked of the 20th Century Fox Domestic Distribution chief who opened the show with a dance number.Zac Efron, Zendaya and Michelle Williams star alongside Jackamn in the rags-to-riches story — Williams looked in her glory during a ballroom dance number with Jackman on an apartment rooftop.Efron is back in his dancing shoes and head-over-heels for “Spider-Man: Homecoming”‘s ingenue, playing a shade closer to her glamorous real-life red carpet persona in dramatic gowns and full glam hair and makeup.The script also has a big element of inclusiveness — Jackman’s Barnum recruits several circus performances of various sizes, afflictions and looks and makes them all stars. It has the empowering air of “American Horror Story: Freakshow” with none of the gross-out terror and doom.It’s a pretty obvious winner, and well-earned labor of love for Jackman.More to come…