That is the "gist" of Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart's "zesty" 1980 musical about the famed 19th-century American showman, P.T. Barnum ... as a "sympathetic" Tom Thumb, and an "expressive ...

This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman ... museum or characters like the midget General Tom Thumb. Yet because the demands of his businesses ...