Director Brian Russell had worked with four of the five principle actors in this film over the years. This script was written specifically to bring them all together.
Kathleen McNenny and Boyd Gaines are married in real life, as are Sara Sessions and James Naughton. Mike Boland acted with both Gaines and McNenny on Broadway's 2012 revival of Enemy of the People.
Second collaboration between writers Brian Russell and Ross Popick. The first was the short film Past Prologue.
Notable figures P.T. Barnum and Charles Sherwood Stratton aka Tom Thumb are buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery.