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The Greatest Showman. Michael Gracey, director. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2017.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2019

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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 2019 , pp. 139 - 141
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