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Keala Settle performed the original song 'This Is Me' from the Oscar Nominated film The Greatest Showman, which features an original score by Oscar, Golden Globe and Tony Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land), on the Ellen Show this week. Check out the performance below!

BroadwayWorld has previously reported that a stage adaptation of The Greatest Showman could be coming to Broadway sometime in the future, and it appears that Keala Settle is on board!

Off Broadway and American Idol Alum Isabelle shares her take on the track NEVER ENOUGH from the recent musical Blockbuster THE GREATEST SHOWMAN.

“The Greatest Showman – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (available now via Atlantic Records) continues to be a triumph, receiving an RIAA Gold certification and marking the first soundtrack to score four weeks of 100,000-plus units on the Billboard 200 chart since it's transition in December 2014. After spending a three consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Top Albums chart (the first soundtrack to top the chart for three consecutive weeks sinceFrozen in 2014), the album broke Suicide Squad: The Album's record (33 million) twice-over for all-time top streaming weeks for a soundtrack with 39.6 million streams (up from 37.4 million the week prior). The album has reached #1 on iTunes in 75 countries, in addition to charting at #1 in Ireland, #1 for five consecutive weeks in Australia and #1 for 4 consecutive weeks the UK.

Will The Greatest Showman 'come alive' on a Broadway stage someday? According to 20th Century Fox film chairman-CEO Stacey Snider, it's very possible!

AARP announced today the official presenters for the 17th Annual Movies for Grownups® Awards. Alfre Woodard, Jason Clarke, Mark Hamill, Saoirse Ronan, Ben Mendelsohn, Shari Belafonte, Willem Dafoe, Kelly Marie Tran, Doug Jones, Michael Gracey, Molly Bloom and others will join host Alan Cummingat the star-studded event that will be celebrated on Monday, February 5th at the Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills. The awards celebrate 2017's standout films with unique appeal to movie lovers with a grownup state of mind and recognize the inspiring artists who make them.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Broadway veteran and star of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, Keala Settle, will perform the film's Oscar nominated hit 'This Is Me' at the 90th Academy Awards.

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (available now via Atlantic Records) is spending a third consecutive week at #1 on the Billboard Top Albums chart, becoming the first soundtrack to top the chart for three consecutive weeks since Frozen in 2014.

The nominations for the 90th Annual ACADEMY AWARDS were announced this morning on a global live stream from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles. As usual theater stars and theater-themed films were well represented in this year's nominations.

Michael Korte, the creator of #Ham4Bey & #Gaga4Rent, is back with a powerful cover of 'This is Me,' Broadway star Keala Settle's show stopping song from The Greatest Showman. Check out the video below!

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THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (available now via Atlantic Records) is spending a second week at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, becoming the first soundtrack to spend multiple weeks on top of the chart

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (available now via Atlantic Records) reaches new heights, hitting #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, reaching #1 on iTunes in over 60 countries and having 9 songs chart on the Spotify Top 200 Global chart

Oscar and Tony Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul received the award for Best Original Song at last night's 75th Annual GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS. Watch their speech below!

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, a musical biopic of PT Barnum starring Hugh Jackman, has set a new box office record.

Keala Settle is blasting the world away with her incredible performance in The Greatest Showman. In this behind the scenes footage, get a look at one of her first shared performances of the showstopping number 'This is Me.'

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, director of the new movie musical The Greatest Showman discusses the difficulty of shooting some of the film's complex musical numbers, as well as the possibility of a future Broadway run.

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Harry Judd, Matt Willis, his wife Giovanna Fletcher and his sister Carrie Hope Fletcher will all be appearing alongside Tom in the show, which arrives at the Eventim Apollo London for a special Christmas spectacular, for a strictly limited run from 21 28 December 2017.

Weldon Owen Publishers has released 'The Art & Making of The Greatest Showman,' This stunningly beautiful and intriguing companion book for the film, 'The Greatest Showman' has a foreword by Michael Gracey and text by Signe Bergstrom. Every page of this book is exciting, informative and a perfect complement to the movie.