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The "ick" factor isn't the real problem.

Posted by:	keikekaze 07:36 pm EST 11/24/14
In reply to:	Could we discuss that, "...about these Siamese twins..."? - Delvino 06:12 pm EST 11/24/14

The book trouble with Side Show isn't so much that many people will find it icky (though many people will), as that many people will find it static. Being a pair of conjoined twins isn't a drama, it's a situation. And in Side Show, at least, it's a situation that doesn't go anywhere much. By contrast, a musical about the original so-called "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, could get into their respective marriages and the fact that, between the two of them, with their wives, they produced 21 children. It could also get into the fact that they settled in the American antebellum South, bought a plantation, and became slaveholders. Now, there's a story, and a drama, or the beginnings of one. Side Show, however, is just another backstage soap opera that's going to end in the usual tears, only with an extra-unpleasant twist.

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