Lakeville 10-year-old, Holden 7-year-old steal the show at Hugh Jackman concert
"The smile on my son's face couldn't have been brighter."
These two super fans of “The Greatest Showman” didn’t know what they were in for when they donned ringmaster costumes to Hugh Jackman’s Boston concert Tuesday night.
Dylan Chagnon, 10, of Lakeville, and Finley Santoro, 7, of Holden didn’t know each other. But they both showed up to the show their circus finery, and the greatest showman himself noticed.
Chagnon and Santoro dressed up as Jackman’s character in “The Greatest Showman,” circus conman extraordinaire P.T. Barnum. When the actor noticed them just before intermission, he pulled them up toward the stage.
Jackman later posted about the two on Instagram, writing “In 20 years or so … looking forward to the marriage of #Finley & #Dillon #couplegoals #tmtmts,” the star wrote. That last hashtag stands for the subtitle to Jackman’s tour, “The Man. The Music. The Show.”
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CBS Boston reported Santoro that saw “The Greatest Showman” four times in theaters and dressed up as Jackman’s character for Halloween last year.
Chagnon loves “The Greatest Showman” and even did a photoshoot as Jackman’s character for his 10th birthday, his mother Anna said. Though he’s usually shy, he told her he wanted to wear his P.T. Barnum costume to Tuesday’s show.
Dylan’s 10th birthday photoshoot as Jackman’s character.
At the concert, she asked him to stand up on a seat so she could take a photo of him with Jackman in the background, but she didn’t know what would happen next.
“Not only did Hugh Jackman call him over and ask him his name, he called up another girl with a similar outfit and said that they should be a couple,” Anna Chagnon wrote in an email. “The entire crowd at the TDGarden applauded. The smile on my son’s face couldn’t have been brighter. He loved meeting Finley (his new girlfriend) and talking with her at intermission.”
He even posed for photos with other Jackman fans as they left the venue, and when he and his mother stopped at a drive-thru on their way home, he asked her to show an employee Jackman’s Instagram post.
Chagnon posted about the concert on Facebook, saying she loved watching him transform from “being the shy, scared boy that was afraid to have anyone pay attention to him to the proud, secure, and happy boy that loved being the center of attention.”
