**PURE MAGIC** The Greatest Showman (2017) Reaction: FIRST TIME WATCHING 

Zendaya actually did all of her own stunts. During “Rewrite The Stars” her & Zac really did those stunts

there are actually two ways to interpret the scene were Barnum's wife is looking at him during "Never Enough", the first (and most popular) one is that she's looking at him and realizing he might be in love with Jenny Lynn, the second one (and my personal favorite) is that she's actually listening to the song and realizing that SHE will never be enough for him, their family will never be enough and he'll always want more.

The bartender is actually the choreographer of that scene.

Also the actress who plays the singer who sings never enough is not actually singing the song, The song is sung by Loren Allred and shes amazing 💜

Most of the actors did their own singing…Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya, and Keala Settle, as well as many minor characters. Rebecca Ferguson as Jenny Lind actually can sing, but once she heard Loren Allred sing it, she said she needed to do it.

I love the wife so much! She's a rare gem! I loved this movie! The music just makes you want to get up and dance! Thank you for the great reaction again! 🤩

Love this movie, we were obsessed for weeks after seeing it! I love how every song is a complete stand alone song. Other musicals have this singing dialogue that just drags on and on and on. This is so much nicer imo.

Honestly top 5 fav musicals ! When you find time you should def react to Hugh Jackman singing From Now On and Keala singing This is Me they are such powerful performances

Its crazy that the real PT Barnum was not a nice person at all, and treated his friends and family horribly.

“That’s a real gentleman?! I don’t think so. I don’t think so, Mr. Darcy would never slap a kid like that.” - Nick 🤣 this guy gets it!

This is one of my FAVORITE musicals!

Rebecca may not have been the real singer of the song, but I think that's interesting that the only actor who DOESN'T sing is the one playing a singer. On purpose? Ironically, Rebecca Ferguson does do her own singing in another Hugh Jackman film called Reminiscence. And she's quite good.

I still remember my fantastic emotions in theatre when I’ve seen it for the first time. It’s unbelievably amazing!

Such a fabulous movie and every song is amazing! ❤ So glad to see you watch this one.

I LOVE this movie. Watched it three times at the theater and some more at home.

actually the actress that sings never enough didn’t actually sing the song, it was another lady who is on americas got talent

So excited you did this movie and are doing more musicals! Can't wait to watch right now! ❤

I ended up going with Falling in Love, but Tightrope was so close to being the song I walked down the aisle to. It was definitely in my playlist.

I will mention this on every reaction video of this movie: this is freaking _Wolverine_ singing

Rebecca Ferguson isn't the one singing Never Enough, it's by Loren Allred and she actually went on America's Got Talent with it!

You're right money isn't everything this shows that someone could be struggling but happ with what they have , and yes Wolverine can sing.

Oh I’ve been so excited for your video about this film! 😄 it’s one of my favourites! Perfect timing as well, I can watch it before I go to sleep 😊

Never enough was not sang by Rebecca Ferguson. She is a great actress though.

You should watch Moulin Rouge!

PT Barnum was from Bridgeport, Connecticut.

There is a video called “how I saved The Greatest Showman”. It’s by Jeremy Jordan who was asked to fly to LA for a showcase of the movies songs for possible investors. Hugh had recently had nasal surgery and was told not yo sing. It’s as fun video with a bittersweet ending (and Jeremy is immensely talented

This was a really fun movie to watch in the theatre !

Super Duper fun thanks!

Weird timing, I was literally just listening to the soundtrack for this movie a couple hours ago and then you upload your reaction. What a great movie.

so the scene where she sings never enough, that's not her singing, it's in fact a woman named Loren Allred, she wanted to be behind the scenes doing the vocals, the person who lip synced it did a good job at it. Loren came onto Britians got talent and performed it on there, Simon was excited cause he said it was one of his favorite songs in that movie. i'm just so happy that Loren came out behind those curtains and showed her true talent. i loved this movie, i just watched it a few mins ago lol. i felt emotional when they were singing the song this is me.

One of my favorite movies 💜💜

Fun fact i come from a long line of circus owners and performers and one of my great great great grandfathers knew P.T. Barnum personally, not sure if they were the best of friends lol but i grew up hearing family stories about it :)

When I first saw this movie, I literally watched it for 2weeks straight every day I had to watch it It’s I’m my top 5 movies

3 Musicals you should check out by the same person.-Bob Fosse.(1) Cabaret--swept the Oscars when it came out. Stars Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey (he was in Buffy playing, in the 5th season season laying the Demonic shopkeeper. He has a role in the Finale --he won an Oscar. His grandchildren were fans of Buffy. His daughter, Jennifer Grey, starred in Dirty Dancing. The movie takes place in Germany in the early 1930s (2) -Chicago--with Catherine Zeta Jones and Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere --Jones won an Oscar for best actress. Takes place in Chicago in the 1920s .(3)All that Jazz --the actor who played the Police Chief in Jaws was nominated for an Oscar for his performance--Roy Scheider.Fosse's movies are dark.

Thank you for react to greatest showman

Rebecca Ferguson didn't sing Never Enough. It was Loren Allred who did the singing for Rebecca.

Zendaya and Zac did all of the stunts!

PT Barnum was at the center of the outrage machine for a while when this movie was popular. Some of the things people said about him were true- for example, he bought an old slave woman and made her perform long hours every day, claiming she was 160 years old and George Washington's old nanny. Though, for what it's worth, he later changed his views of slavery and became an abolitionist. Some of the things people said (like that he kept his "freaks" in cages and whipped them) was absolute nonsense. But most of it revolved around the idea of having a "freak show" at all. Obviously, today we see it as horrible. But people tend to forget the time this happened, and the lack of alternatives available to these people. For most people with any kind of deformity or condition at that time, the best life they could possibly hope to have would be to be hidden away within their family, never meeting outsiders, never being able to work or live independently, certainly never getting married and having a life and family of their own. And that was the best option. As abhorrent as we find it today (people paying to gawk at others' deformities), Barnum's show offered them something far better. A chance to earn a living (and a good one- he paid VERY well), travel, meet other people, and have their oddities celebrated rather than hidden away. The man who played Tom Thumb became one of the wealthiest and most celebrated performers in the world at that time. He married another woman with a similar condition that he met through the show. In fact, when Barnum fell into financial difficulties later in life, several of his former employees (including Tom Thumb) used their own money to bail him out and help him reestablish himself. PT Barnum was not a saint. He definitely did multiple morally questionable (or straight up objectionable) things throughout the course of his life. There's plenty of gray and a bit of black there. But neither was he the horrible, evil man who abused and exploited his employees in order to get rich off people laughing at them that outraged 2018 wanted to paint him as.

not only did Zendaya and Zac do all their own stunts for Rewrite the Stars, but that scene was the first one they shot together for the film. spectacular performance by both of them, as well as everyone else. my only gripe with the film is that they kinda glossed over the conversation about growing up in poverty vs. wealth and why PT pushed so hard for it. Charity ends that conversation by remarking that he doesn't need everyone to love him but that wasn't really his motivation. we watched PT grow up struggling to survive, losing his father at a young age and having to fend for himself, never knowing where his next meal would come from. he didn't want his daughters to have to go through that, which is totally understandable. did he lack balance when it came to providing for his family? absolutely. I just wish the film treated it with a bit more nuance instead of making it seem as if he just wanted to do it for fortune and glory like Indiana Jones. anyway, despite that I really love this movie and the songs always put me in a great mood! 😃

Definitely one of my all time favorite movies! I never get tired of it! Also the soundtrack is just so good!

Zac Efron and Zendaya did all their own songs and stunts.

Hi Nick, I enjoyed your reaction to the movie musicals that I've watched on here thus far. May I suggest that you watch the stage production of "Barnum" with Michael Crawford portraying P.T. Barnum, also there is a couple of shorter clips from when they were getting The Greatest Showman to be greenlit first is seeing Keeala Settle perform 'This is me' at the greenlit 'workshop' also coming from that is Jeremy Jordan 'The Day I saved The Greatest Showman' all the best and catch you next time

Awh nick please react to Moulin Rouge it's just fantastic Nicole kidman chefs kiss

There was a broadway musical in the 1980s called Barnum which was slightly more true to life, although still pretty sanitized. The broadway cast had Jim Dale (who recorded the audiobooks for all the Harry Potter books) as Barnum and Glenn Close as his wife. There is a video of the London production which starred Michael Crawford who was the original Phantom of the Opera

Since everything old is new again, try writing a letter to someone special. There is something very personal about receiving a handwritten letter, seeing the impression of the pen on the paper and the words are very personal. Much like reading a book, you hear that person's voice and you can read it over and over again. Our only brother just passed last month at the age of 71. We found in his footlocker in his home all the letters from our parents, his sisters when he was stationed in Vietnam and a DMZ in Korea during the early 70's. We could see how many times he took out the letters that had dad telling him to focus, keep his chin up and that he was caring for his car, Mom and her gardening successes, Thirdgirl's cheerleading and Secondgirl's made gloves in army green. I told his about the bully in my third grade class and he wrote back with instructions on how to stand up to her and to ask Firstgirl for punching tips. Reading those letters, our whole family came alive again.

Wolverine out here partying with the mum from Dune 😂😂

Rebecca Ferguson didn’t do the vocals. Never Enough was san by Loren Allred. You should react to a video of her performing it

Rebecca Ferguson does not sing Never Enough. It's actually sung by Loren Alred. Rebecca can sing but did not think she could do the song justice. So she lip synced to Loren vocals. She is the only cast member who did not actually sing. Loren explained that she would rather sing behind the scenes. She explains it on Britain's Got Talent. Look it up. There is a video from the show where she surprises everyone, especially Simon, with the story behind the song.

All the shine of a thousand spotlights All the stars we steal from the night sky Will never be enough Never be enough Towers of gold are still too little These hands could hold the world but it'll Never be enough Never be enough

Did you recognize that his dad’s funeral she got the top hat?

Love this movie 💜

not sure if he knows this, but Rebecca Ferguson is not the one singing in this. she is lip syncing. the actual singer is called Loren Allred. she was on Britain's got Talent

The bartender was actually the choreographer in that scene

Musicals! There are classics (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Oklahoma, Singing in the Rain, Sound of Music) that I'd love you to see.

There’s BTS content that is worthy of a reaction- more for your music channel. They filmed their workshops when pitching the movie and it has Keala’s first performance in front of an audience of This is Me. It is pure serotonin to watch. Highly recommend. Hugh Jackman’s performance from this session is also great.

The Swedish actress was a really famous charity worker and one of the only loves of Hans Christian Andersen (the Danish author of The Little Mermaid).

Yes Zendaya did her own stunts for that song ❤

Never Enough is a really powerful song, but in context of the story the lyrics are really dark. It's lovely to listen to but it's a song about ambition/greed. Ambition (Barnum) about never sitting back and accepting one's position in life, greed (Jenny, the socialites, etc) saying that no matter what they get they'll never be satisfied or even thankful.

John Carney did some good music movies. Try Sing Street or Once or begin again

Nice

Why haven't I watched your channel before?) It's so nice to remember your favorite movies with a great reaction. Have you watched the animated series Gravity Falls? I adore it! There are a lot of mysteries, adventures and great humor)

Circus used to really just mean the Roman sense of the word until PT (and some others) rebranded it.

Chicago (2002)! or Grease!

I have another movie for you to react to. It’s called Gnomeo and Juliet. It’s awesome

If you're doing musicals please please react to Victor Victoria!!!

Thank you for saying you understand that its a character not the actual person, so manypeople watch movies based on real people/events & think its an accurate portrayal & its nice to see someone understand its just a character Just so you know it wasn't actually Rebecca singing, Loren Allred does the vocals for the character, Rebecca insisted that she couldnt do it justice & wanted Loren to do them Charity Barnum best person in the world

Oh, yes Zendaya and Zach did that scene themselves. No stunt doubles.

Zac efron said in an interview zendaya was the best kiss he's had on any movie. 😊

Watch The Love Bug 1969 please

please do Chicago (2003) if you haven't already you won't regret it

Les Misérables is another good musical with Hugh jackman

I believe this is set in the late 1800’s so $10,000 is like $188,000 today so it could have gone quite far

To be fair, I do not think that Phineas was interested in the Singer in a relationship way. He might have been fascinted, but I don't think he _ever_ entertained cheating. Sje just wated more than he was willing to give

One of my favourite musicals is one hardly anyone has heard of, 'The Pirate' (1948) with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, it's adorable! Greetings from Australia! Karen 🌷

Another film panned by the critics….just shows you they know nowt

Rebecca Ferguson is NOT the singer of never enough

You are the apittam of a great movie and songs! You should stop your comments!

It is a good movie but knowing that P.T. Barnum was a monster in real life keeps me from liking it..

the red-headed woman on stage is not really singing. She's lip-syncing.

Would love for you to react to Mamma Mia 1 and 2 - if you haven’t watched those films/musicals yet 😊

For some people, they really love the part with Zac & Zendaya but unfortunely, it's not my case😢 they're amazing, for sure, but i think i'm kind of tired of the lovey dovey in movies😑😑😑(that's only MY opinion😂) but the whole movie is a MASTERPIECE🤩... i think my fave character here is the one played by Keala Settle....she's phenomenal and I LOVE her voice so much❤❤❤

Rebecca Ferguson didn't sing- that was Zendaya you heard sing " never enough".