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Littleshopofcarrie
#1Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 8:45am

I've been listening to the new Side Show Cast Recording a lot lately and have been thinking about what was going on in the scenes when these songs were happening. I remember being somewhat touched in Act 2 during the "Great Big Wedding Show" scene, when Jake is approached by three of the former attractions from the Side Show. I remember it was the Fortune Teller, the Geek and one another who I don't remember! Can anybody tell me who the other freak is? I know it's such a random and stupid question but it's killing me!

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poodleboy2
#2Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 9:06am

It was the half man half woman character.

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ethan231h
#2Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 10:13am

I love that scene but I really don;t get why they chose them to end up *SPOLIER* being bake shop workers. *END SPOILER* It really doesn't go with the rest of the show.

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Mike Costa
#3Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 10:47am

**SPOILER**The three of them ending up working in a bakery is set up nicely in the first act by having The Fortune Teller bake and present a birthday cake for the twins early on.

Cake is a good device since if you like the messages in Sideshow chances are you like cake, and owning a bake shop where the public does not see the freak bakers in the back but only a belting Fortune Teller behind the counter waiting on you was a clever bit of writing on Bill's part.
**END SPOILER**

Thanks for the correction, DoodleNYC.
The Geek bakes the birthday cake.




Updated On: 3/5/15 at 10:47 AM

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doodlenyc
#4Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 11:23am

The Geek is the baker, not the Fortune Teller.


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adam.peterson44
#5Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 12:09pm

"Cake is a good device since if you like the messages in Sideshow chances are you like cake"

I didn't follow you around that bend. Would you be willing to explain?

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tazber
#6Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 12:18pm

Cake is a good device since if you like the messages in Sideshow chances are you like cake



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Mr Roxy
#7Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 12:52pm

In the grand scheme of things, what is the big deal? The show closed. Sad but true.

Time to move on.


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brucebossa
#8Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 1:06pm

So if a show closes no one is allowed to ask a question about the production, script or score or the CD that just came out? I guess a lot of BW threads can be shorter now if we play by that rule.

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tazber
#9Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 1:12pm

I still want to know how cake and Side Show are related!


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#10Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 1:32pm

mmmmmm....cake!

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#11Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 1:43pm

"I still want to know how cake and Side Show are related!"

Because the biggest fans of the show are the chubby high school theatre girls (and gays) who know they are so talented, but always lose out on the lead roles to the pretty and popular kids. High school is so unfair and they know as soon as they get to college they can declare their theatre major and magically be recognized as the stars they are. In the mean time they sit at home eating cake and listening to "Who Will Love Me as I Am?" and "I Will Never Leave You" on an endless loop.

*sarcasm font*

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tazber
#12Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 1:58pm

Like a pound cake in the oven
Or angel cake on the mill
If I stood on my tiptoes
I could peek over the sill
And see the bakery all lit up
With cream cakes to fill

I will never leave you
I will never go away
We were meant to share each babka
Beside it is where I will stay
Evermore and always
I'll be scarfing them down
For I will never leave you


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gypsy101
#13Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 2:28pm

I love cake but I don't really understand the message of Side Show. Don't separate from your Siamese twin, I guess?


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VintageSnarker
#14Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/5/15 at 8:13pm

Is your argument that everyone should like Side Show? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNjcuZ-LiSY

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tazber
#15Side Show Act 2 Question
Posted: 3/6/15 at 10:23am

I don't necessarily think there has to be a "take away message" in terms of there being a moral.

Side Show, to me, has always been about the sisters struggle to accept their situation and how they lived. And ultimately coming to terms and self-acceptance.

You could extrapolate a message about people labeled as "freaks" having the same dreams, desires and ambitions as anyone. And how in some way we are all "freaks".




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