Neill Hartley portrays MASTER SHOWMAN P.T. BARNUM IN THIS EXCITING AND
ENTERTAINING LOOK AT ONE OF THE MOST COLORFUL AND WELL-known
personalities of all time, who brought high and low culture to all of
America. A brilliant and shameless promoter, Barnum gave the wise
public of the 19th century shameless hucksterism, peerless spectacle,
and everything in between -- enough entertainment to earn the title
"master showman" a dozen times over. Barnum weathered accusations of
fraud with the attitude that there was no such thing as bad press, and
he became one of the richest men in America. Audiences will watch his
fame grow with a parade of freaks and oddities from “The Fejee
Mermaid”, the tiny General Tom Thumb to Jumbo the elephant and then
share his crowning success: “The Greatest Show on Earth! Following
the performance, there is a short informational section about the
history of the circus, and of P.T Barnum’s life outside of the
entertainment world, including a short reading from his book “The
Art of Money Getting”. A question and answer will conclude the
presentation.
Neill Hartley is professional actor who has performed with many local
and regional theaters and is on the theater faculty of the University
of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA
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