Off-Broadway's Side Show to Include Cut Song
By: BWW News Desk Aug. 24, 2006
Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's Side Show, to be presented at Off-Broadway's American Theatre of Actors from August 31 to September 3, will feature a cut song entitled "She's Gone." The song was removed during previews of the Broadway production in order to shorten the performance time. Side Show is dramatically based upon real-life vaudeville entertainers and conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton.
"In the original Broadway production, which premiered in 1997, the song was a final moment for Violet Hilton at the end of Act Two. It was decided to reinstate the song into this new production in order to give each of the twins a moment to display their arrival as independent women. This production of Side Show will be the first in Manhattan since the Broadway premiere," state press materials.Side Show features Carey McCray and Jordan Kai Burnett as Daisy and Violet Hilton. "The musical follows these unique sisters from their humble beginnings among the 'freaks' of the sideshow to their rise of fame in the Vaudeville circuit and eventually Hollywood. Along the way they face challenges of love, identity, discrimination, and isolation." Dane Agostinis, Joshua Isaacs, Kevin Bradley, Jr., and Nathan Brisby also star.Videos