The beginning opens with the first half of “The greatest show” and it shows him with all the oddities, it is upbeat before slowing down and showing him as a boy. He meets charity and they go through their teenage and young adult years by writing letters to each other to keep in touch. Barnum goes to her house after she is back and they get married when she goes with him. Her father does not approve of him because they are rich and Barnum’s family is poor. Barnum has the idea about 10 years later to open a museum, containing wax figures and taxidermy animals. When he is not getting very much customers, he doesn’t know what to do. One night, when he comes home, his daughters call for him out of their room and he goes in there. They give him the idea to have live things in his museum and the first person that he goes to find is a small person who he met briefly in a bank waiting area. He convinces him to join from describing the vision that he has of him. It goes to where they find the bearded lady, Lettie Lutz, in a wash house. She agrees to become one of the people in the circus and after that, it continues with the other oddities auditioning for a role in the
The beginning opens with the first half of “The greatest show” and it shows him with all the oddities, it is upbeat before slowing down and showing him as a boy. He meets charity and they go through their teenage and young adult years by writing letters to each other to keep in touch. Barnum goes to her house after she is back and they get married when she goes with him. Her father does not approve of him because they are rich and Barnum’s family is poor. Barnum has the idea about 10 years later to open a museum, containing wax figures and taxidermy animals. When he is not getting very much customers, he doesn’t know what to do. One night, when he comes home, his daughters call for him out of their room and he goes in there. They give him the idea to have live things in his museum and the first person that he goes to find is a small person who he met briefly in a bank waiting area. He convinces him to join from describing the vision that he has of him. It goes to where they find the bearded lady, Lettie Lutz, in a wash house. She agrees to become one of the people in the circus and after that, it continues with the other oddities auditioning for a role in the