Davie especially must negotiate an obstacle course of whiplashing emotion; not only does Buddy profess his love to her, but so, too, does the twins' friend Jake, the former King of the Cannibals in the sideshow and now their all-purpose body man. The music from Side Show is written by Tony nominee and Grammy winner Henry Krieger with lyrics by Tony nominee Bill Russell. Daisy always introduces herself with a confident leaping two-note figure; Violet with a drooping triplet. Before I get hacked to pieces by an angry mob of Side Show cultists, let me turn to the other half of the show: the one you might call Daisy and Violet. Despite what seemed like weeks of buzz about its radical transformations, the revival of Side Show that opened on Broadway tonight is not as meaningfully different from the 1997 original as its current creatives would like to think. And "I Will Never Leave You, " the size of the statements for once seems earned, as we have learned from the inside to care for the characters.
Even as the show proceeds, they often remain exhibits in a parable of exploitation. But to support those moments, much of the story — by Bill Russell, with additional material by Condon — is grossly inflated, hectic, and vague. Using the format of a musical to explore voyeurism is a complicated business; looking at freaks of one kind or another is part of the contract of showbiz. Listen to "I Will Never Leave You" below. Orchestrations are by Tony winner Harold Wheeler with musical direction by Sam Davis. That one image tells us more about the ordinary humanity of the freaks than all the Brechtian scaffolding. First they are exploited by Auntie, who raised them as peep-show attractions in the back parlor; then by Auntie's widower, Sir, who features them in his circus sideshow. The songs, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics by Russell, have an especially bad case. Even the vaudeville pastiches, which ought to serve as comic relief, run out of wit before they run out of tune. In the moment of her choice between the gay man and the black man — a choice that naturally implicates the sister beside her — the best threads of the musical tie together in the recognition that though we are all conjoined we are also all distinct. The plot itself suffers from the rampant musical-theater disease I've elsewhere dubbed Emphasitis, in which the emotional volume is jacked up to the point that everything starts to seem the same. The story of the Hiltons' rise from circus freaks to vaudeville stars in the early 1930s, with all the requisite references to cultural voyeurism and its human costs, is fused to an intimate story of emotional accommodation between sisters as unalike as sisters can be. Finally Hollywood, in the form of Tod Browning, chimes in; the famous director of Dracula brings the story full circle by casting the twins in a lurid 1932 sideshow drama called Freaks. Indeed, much of the music is indistinguishable from Krieger's work on Dreamgirls.
Side Show is at the St. James Theatre. Amazingly, this half is just as delicate and lovely as the other is loud and ungainly. But each of them is stuck with obvious outer-story characterizations and laborious outer-story songs; they thus seem like placards. All the subtlety unused in the big story is lavished here on a believable yet unpredictable arc for the twins. If so, perhaps Condon should have gotten rid of the brilliant device of having the Lizard Man, when on break from the sideshow, wear reading glasses. Aggressively soliciting your interest and then scolding you for it is therefore a paradoxical and somewhat disagreeable approach, one that Side Show takes so often I began to shut down whenever the meta-material kicked in. All the effort seems to have gone into fashioning big visual payoffs, some of which are indeed jaw-dropping. Sometimes a big musical is best when it's very small. I wish the rest of the show were up to that level, or up to the level of the skilled actors who play the three men: the strapping Ryan Silverman as Terry, the likable Matthew Hydzik as Buddy, the dignified David St. Louis as Jake. Now as then, the cult musical about the conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton is itself conjoined. The opening number, "Come Look at the Freaks, " efficiently says it all: "Come explore why they fascinate you / exasperate you / and flush your cheeks. "
The problem with Side Show is that these stories can't be separated, and only one can thrive. Oscar winner Bill Condon directs the upcoming revival. For that we have Emily Padgett and Erin Davie, both thrilling, to thank; stepping into the four shoes of Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley, who played Daisy and Violet in the original, they are as powerful singers and more nuanced actors. The show is almost always gorgeous to look at. ) The Broadway revival of the Tony-nominated musical, starring Davie and Padgett as the Hilton Sisters, will begin previews Oct. 28 at the St. James Theatre prior to an official opening Nov. 17. This part is fiction, or at least conflation. )
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