


Panic! At the Disco set the tone, opening with a version of “The Greatest Show” that adds rock punch to the original without veering toward the overblown. While it may be tempting to avoid messing with songs so precision-engineered with melody and emotion, everyone brings something new. That activity helped inspire this album, featuring covers by artists whose variety reflects the genre-fusing eclecticism of the original music. Beyond the staggering chart performances, a measure of how successful the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman has been is the number of stars who posted thoughts on, and renditions of, the songs to social media.
