Auburn, N.Y. — P.T. Barnum, called in his lifetime The Prince of Humbug, is one of those larger than life figures who helped define American exceptionalism as largely aspirational and a little bit ...
"Showman, charlatan or both?" That is the "gist" of Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart's "zesty" 1980 musical about the famed 19th-century American showman, P.T. Barnum. More than four decades since its ...