Barnum Award from Tufts University for her exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.

* 1980 Tony Award Best Musical Barnum ( nominee )

* 1980 Tony Award Best Original Score Barnum ( nominee )

Barnum Award from Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.

Barnum Award from Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.

Barnum Award from Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.

Barnum, which was a finalist for Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Governor General ’ s Award for Fiction.

Barnum Award from Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.

He has been nominated for the Tony Award three times, for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Barnum and 42nd Street ( 1981 ) and Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, 42nd Street ( 2001 ).

* 1980 Tony Award Best Book of a Musical Barnum ( nominee )

In 1952, Time magazine called it a " mammoth merger of two masters of malarkey for the masses: P. T. Barnum and Cecil B. de Mille " as well as a film that " fills the screen with pageants and parades finds a spot for 60-odd circus acts " with a plot that " does not quite hold all this pageantry together.

From 1942 – 1956 Kelly performed with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, where he was a major attraction, though he took the 1956 season off to perform as the mascot for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team.

Other regular events at the arena include the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus when it comes to New York City ( although the Izod Center and Nassau Coliseum also host the circus each year ), selected home games for the St. John's men's Red Storm ( college basketball ), the annual pre and postseason NIT tournaments, the NBA Draft, the Millrose Games track and field meet, and almost any other kind of indoor activity that draws large audiences, such as the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the 2004 Republican National Convention.

* The Barnum Festival has been held in the Spring in Bridgeport since 1949 to raise money for charity.

His parents worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus: his mother, Rae ( née Fisher ), was a bareback rider and his father, Harry, was an advance man.

* Merle Evans, Circus Bandleader for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

The island is named for clothier Peter C. Barnum and his wife Sarah Ann Baldwin Barnum.

Barnum Island has its own fire district, but is under contract with the Island Park Fire Department for emergency services.

In April 2009, Feld Entertainment, parent company to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, announced that " The Greatest Show on Earth " would perform on Coney Island for the entire summer of 2009, the first time since July 16, 1956 that Ringling Bros. had performed in this location.

On stage he appeared in both straight and musical roles, and has been nominated for five Tony Awards, winning one for Barnum when, in 1980, the New York Times cited him as " The Toast of Broadway ", also winning the second of four Drama Desk Awards.

Phineas Taylor Barnum ( July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891 ) was an American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, " I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me ," and his personal aims were " to put money in his own coffers.

Barnum served two terms in the Connecticut legislature in 1865 as a Republican for Fairfield.

With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution over slavery and African-American suffrage, Barnum spoke before the legislature and said, " A human soul, ‘ that God has created and Christ died for ,’ is not to be trifled with.

Barnum was having the time of his life, and for all of the three years abroad with Thumb, except for a few months when his serious, nervous, and straitlaced wife joined him, he had piles of spending money, food and drink, and lived a carefree existence.

" But Barnum was confident that her reputation for morality and philanthropy could be turned to good use in his publicity.

Barnum agreed, and she accepted the offer, which would permit her to raise a huge fund for charities, principally endowing schools for poor children in Sweden.

Barnum Island is an unincorporated area of the Town of Hempstead.

The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, and Charlton Heston.

In addition to the film actors, the real Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Circus ' 1951 troupe appears in the film, with its complement of 1400 people, hundreds of animals, and 60 carloads of equipment and tents.

The film features about 85 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus acts, including clowns Emmett Kelly and Lou Jacobs, midget Cucciola, bandmaster Merle Evans and aerialist Antoinette Concello.

That same year, he played the role of Sheriff Doug Barnum in the controversial film Powder.

PRR GG1 4821 appears briefly in the 1952 film The Greatest Show on Earth, pulling the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train into Philadelphia's Greenwich Yard, with the movie's director Cecil B. DeMille narrating the scene of their arrival.

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus and Disney on Ice will relocate to Barclays Center when it opens in 2012, leaving the Garden with at least nine open dates.

P. T. Barnum was one of the earliest benefactors of Tufts College, and the Barnum Museum of Natural History was constructed in 1884 with funds donated by him to house his collection of animal specimens and the stuffed hide of Jumbo the elephant, who would become the university's mascot.

For the rest of the century the twins enjoyed a successful career as " The Two-Headed Nightingale " and appeared with the Barnum Circus.

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

* Len Barnum ( 1912 – 1998 ), former NFL player with the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles.

Also highlighted and previewed were two original graphic novels: Lovecraft ( based on a screenplay by Hans Rodionoff and adapted by Keith Giffen with art by Enrique Breccia ) took the conceit that H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos creatures were real, to paint a highly fictionalized biographic portrait of the titular author, while Howard Chaykin & David Tischman's Barnum!

The tale of P. T. Barnum: secret agent saw the celebrated showman saving the life of President Grover Cleveland and ( with his circus charges, including original siamese twins Chang and Eng ) and matching wits against the " evil " Nikola Tesla.

Another nephew, Fred Harrison Bailey, recognized a potential circus talent in James Anthony McGuiness, later James Anthony Bailey, who united the Cooper and Bailey with Phineas Taylor Barnum's circus to form the Barnum and Bailey Circus, which later joined with the Ringling Brothers Circus to form the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Barnum again ) with Adolphe Menjou

" Barnum is widely, but erroneously, credited with coining the phrase " There's a sucker born every minute.

In 1835 he began as a showman with his purchase and exhibition of a blind and almost completely paralyzed slave woman, Joice Heth, claimed by Barnum to have been George Washington's nurse, and to be over 160 years old.

In 1842, Barnum introduced his first major hoax, a creature with the head of a monkey and the tail of a fish, known as the " Feejee " mermaid.

Barnum followed that with the exhibition of Charles Stratton, the dwarf " General Tom Thumb " (" the Smallest Person that ever Walked Alone ") who was then four years of age but was stated to be 11.