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Barnum Musical Returns With Circus Spectacle

CULTURE 29.08.2026

Barnum Musical Returns With Circus Spectacle

The Greatest Showman is in Town Barnum, the classic Broadway musical by Cy Coleman (music), Michael Stewart (lyrics) and Mark Bramble(book) that celebrates the life of the world’s greatest showman, P.T. Barnum, is on tour and coming to Wimbledon. Step right up and enter the dazzling world of P.T. Barnum,.

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Michael Holland

28th August 2026

Lifestyle & Events , Merton

The Greatest Showman is in Town

Barnum, the classic Broadway musical by Cy Coleman (music), Michael Stewart (lyrics) and Mark Bramble(book) that celebrates the life of the world’s greatest showman, P.T. Barnum, is on tour and coming to Wimbledon.

Step right up and enter the dazzling world of P.T. Barnum, where imagination and ambition know no bounds. Hand in hand with wife Charity, Barnum’s life and career twist and turn as he schemes and dreams his way to headier heights.

Matt Rawle is the legendary P.T Barnum, and starring alongside him are Monique Young as Charity Barnum, Penny Ashmore as Jenny Lind, Dominique Planter as Joice Heth, and Fergus Rattigan as General Tom Thumb.

They are joined by Elena Bluck, Gianpaolo Candelaria, Eamonn Cox, James Gill, Jessica Jolleys, Kevin Oliver Jones, Emma Jane Morton, Sophie Precious Muringu, Lennin Nelson-McClure, Emily Odunsi, André Rodrigues, Ben Scott, Laura Sillett, Tom Sowinski, Tom Sterling and Niki Tsonopoulou.

This spectacular production will feature an extraordinary ensemble cast of actor-musicians, acrobats and amazing circus acts. Audiences are certain to delight at every sight, wonder and miracle that the name Barnum stands for!

This musical classic first took the UK by storm when it played the London Palladium, with Michael Crawford making theatrical history with a death-defying nightly tightrope walk across the stage. And now Lee Mead and Matt Rawle step into his shoes and onto the tightrope!

New Wimbledon Theatre, The Broadway, Wimbledon,SW19 1QG

29th Sept – 3rd Oct.

Booking and full tour details: www.kenwright.com

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