Back in 1997, after seeing Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner do a television appearance, my mother said about Side Show: "Who would want to see a musical about freaks?" I was a student, not yet a professional writer, but I had gone. Not many other people did. Perhaps most shared my mother's thinking. I don't think, despite some positive reviews, it was ever a mystery to me why Side Show was a bomb. It was a failure because most people don't want to see a melancholy musical about the life of Siamese...
Saying Goodbye to the Freak Show: Side Show's Inevitable Demise
The Huffington Post - 3 Jan 2015 22:17
Back in 1997, after seeing Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner do a television appearance, my mother said about Side Show: "Who would want to see a musical about freaks?" I was a student, not yet a professional writer, but I had gone. Not many other people did. Perhaps most shared my mother's thinking. I don't think, despite some positive reviews, it was ever a mystery to me why Side Show was a bomb. It was a failure because most people don't want to see a melancholy musical about the life of Siamese...
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