Alex Lacamoire has joined 20th Century Fox’s «The Greatest Showman» as Executive Music Producer.
Alex Lacamoire has joined 20th Century Fox’s “The Greatest Showman ” as Executive Music Producer, Variety has learned exclusively.
Lacamoire is a three-time Tony and two-time Grammy winner for his work on the musicals “Hamilton, ” “Dear Evan Hansen” and “In The Heights.”
He’s worked as music director, arranger and orchestrator on an array of Broadway stage shows including “Annie, ” “Bring It On, ” “The People In The Picture, ” “9 to 5, ” “Legally Blonde, ” “High Fidelity, ” and “Wicked.”
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Other credits include “Bat Boy: The Musical”, “Godspell” (2001 National Tour) , orchestrations for The Rockettes and the Oscars. He is an Emmy-nominated composer for “Sesame Street.”
Director Michael Gracey said, “We are so lucky to be working with such a brilliantly talented and incredibly skilled collaborator to bring the musical vision for this film to life.
Hugh Jackman plays P. T. Barnum, the showman with a specialty in hoaxing a gullible public, as he creates the three-ring Barnum & Bailey Circus that made him famous. Barnum had gained fame as a 19th Century impressario with tours of Tom Thumb and the singer Jenny Lind; he began calling it the “Greatest Show on Earth” near the end of his career.
Michelle Williams, Zendaya, Zac Efron and Rebecca Ferguson co-star. Producers on the film are Laurence Mark, Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping.
Fox is opening the movie on Christmas Day.
