Side Show
Shows · Side Show
Based on the true story of conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton, who rose from carnival sideshows to become vaudeville stars in the 1930s. Though physically inseparable, the sisters have vastly different personalities and dreams, and their search for love and independence is complicated by the managers who exploit them and a society that sees them only as a spectacle.
- Opened
- 1997
- Performances
- 91
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions3 on Broadway
| 1931 | Craig Theatre Original. May 15, 1931 · predates this show | 1 performances |
| 1997 | Original Theatre unknown. October 16, 1997 · Robert Longbottom | 91 performances |
| 2014 | St James Theatre Revival. November 17, 2014 · Anthony Van Laast | 56 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 4 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| US | Concord Theatricals Samuel French | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Samuel French | available |
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13 passages naming Side Show, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Side Show (10/ 16/97; 84 performances) became a sort of cult hit—the sort that is followed by fans whose memories of musical theater go all the way back to Carzs. Badly ~. (and cheaply) produced, with an amateurish score by Henry Kreiger and Bill Russell, Side Show nevertheless had touching performances by Alice Ripley… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p456
Hugh Panaro created the title role for the American production of Martin Guerre, which unfortunately was another short-running musical on the talented performer’s resume. Despite his boyish good looks and strong singing voice, his bad luck continued with the out-of-town closing of Martin Guerre, which followed the five… book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p405
This 1964 musical, first called The Natives Are Restless and then Side Show, was an experimental (some even said avant-garde) work. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p19
Krieger (Dreamgirls), Russell (Side Show) and Hatcher (Tuesdays with Morrie) collaborate on this satirical, rags-to-runway musical geared especially for the elementary school set. book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p237
Gay characters became a fashionable add-on as writers inserted gay characters into revivals and revisals of musicals whose narratives did not initially include them—and most of these productions flopped; others include the 2008 revisal of Pal Joey, the 2011 revisal of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 2014 revis… book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p164
Three nights after Titanic bowed, and two nights following the premiere of Steel Pier, Henry Krieger came to town with Side Show, the challenging portrait of a pair of Siamese twins romantically involved with two men, themselves not joined at the hip. book:broadway-musicals-a-hundred-year-history-lewis-david-h-2002-2012-mcfarland-compa#p211
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