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Scene 1(Circus Stage)

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Back-up dancers and Hugh Jackman

Scene 2(Market to Mansion) -Mini Jackman,2 Father, Mini Charity, Maid (Market) Father(P) : Thank you very much, Mr. Jeffrey. Thank you. You have the money by the end of the day. Let’s Go. Phineas, hurry up. We are gonna miss the train. (Walking to the Mansion) Stand up straight. Wipe that muck off. (Mansion) Maid: (Mini Jackman looking at Charity) Keep up. Arm extended, elbow out. Sip, and never slurp. Begin here, arm extended, elbow out. Gracefully. (Charity spits and laugh at each other) Father (C) : Charity, come here. Your dress. Is this how we have taught you to behave? Jackman: It’s my fault, sir. I made her laugh. Father(C): Well, thank you for your honesty. (Slaps Jackman) Stay away from my daughter. (walk out) (Field) Jackman sitting and Charity follows Jackman: How did you get out? Charity: The Window. Father is sending me to finishing school. I don’t know what my future will be. Jackman: I do. (Started singing Million dreams) Settings: Abandoned house, Charity Leaving the House, Cemetery, Market

Change Characters (Music Freeze) (Mansion) Jackman: Sir, 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. (Continuation of Million dreams) End: Charity Got Pregnant -

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(Jackman got home) (Song: Million dreams) (Rooftop) Jackman: This isn’t the life I promised you. Charity: But I have everything I want. Jackman: What about the magic? Charity: What do you call about those two girls? Daughters: Daddy! D1: Did you bring a present for my birthday? Jackman: I have the most amazing birthday present ever. This extraordinary machine was originally created by Leonardo Da Vinci 400 years ago. The blueprints crossed my desk very briefly but I managed to commit the to my memory.. Happy Birthday, Caroline. This is a wishing machine. D2: Can I tell a wish? I wish to marry Santa Clause. Jackman: That is a good wish. D1: I wish for ballet slippers. Jackman: That’s a good wish too. D1: What is your wish, Mommy? Charity: I wish… for happiness like this forever. For you, for you, and for your father. (Daughters started singing (Chorus)) Charity: What did we buy with the loan? Jackman: Barnum’s American Museum of Curiosirty. Charity: What kind of museum is it? Jackman: A place to be transported. A place where people can see thing they’ve never seen before. Charity: Wax figures? Jackman: Yeah. D1: I think you have too many dead things in your museum daddy.

Jackman: Do you? D2: She is right. You need something alive. D1: Something sensational. Jackman: That’s a big word. D1: That’s your word, Dad. (Jackman thinking….) Jackman: P.T Barnum. At your service. Charles, right? Age 22? I’m putting together a show… and I need a star. Shortman: You want people to laugh at me? (Bangs the door) Jackman: I see a general riding across the stage with a sword and gun… and the most beautiful uniform ever made, and when they see hin they won’t laugh. They will salute. (Opens the door and handshake) “WANTED UNIQUE PERSONS, CURIOSITIES. DURING ACTS. WONDERS OF THE WORLD. Tambay1: Hey. You looking for freaks? Tambay2: I know where you can find one of them. (smirks) (Beard singing) (KITCHEN) with ladies Jackman: Hello. Lady1: Sir, you can’t be here. Jackman: Who is doing that singing? It’s you isn’t it? You are so talented, blessed….. extraordinary. Unique. I would even say ‘beautiful’ (Crowd laughs) Beard: Sir, please leave me alone. Jackman: They don’t understand it, but they will. “Tattoo man. Dog boy. World’s heaviest man. Irish Giant....