Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Circus Oddities #2


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Daisy and Violet Hilton.

Posted by Buckles at 8/12/2009 06:04:00 AM

8 comments:

Chic Silber said...

"Side Show" was a Broadway musical

based on the Hilton sisters done

in 1997 but didn't run very long

12 August, 2009 10:48
Logan Jacot said...

"Side Show" is now doing quite well though at regional theaters and universities.

12 August, 2009 11:13
Chic Silber said...

Thanks but to a crusty old

Broadway stagehand the regionals

don't really matter much

What they do however is nurture

projects that can eventually

end up on Broadway

I do know that I'm a show snob

12 August, 2009 12:55
henry edgar said...

i've never understood why "Sideshow" never found an audience. it was a great production with great music and within a short time you forgot the actresses were not really siamese twins. it was one of the best original musicals written in recent years and "Come See The Freaks" is a song you can't forget, as well as "The Devil You Know." i believe part of the creative team also worked on the ringling team.

13 August, 2009 00:36
Mike Naughton said...

I saw Side Show on Broadway and I have the CD; the score is enjoyable. I like "One plus One equals Three", a song about the twins and one of their boyfriends and the reason that this unique relationship is odd, but it does work.

I think the "Side Show" name hurt the production; it just conjured up negative images in the theatre going public's mind.

Another show that I liked as well, Steel Pier, based on the famed Atlantic City amusement icon did not last long on Broadway either.

Check out the cds on iTunes, you might find them to your liking.

13 August, 2009 07:33
Anonymous said...

Dean Jensen's book "The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton" is an excellent study of this interesting pair of sisters. Somewhere out there is the child that was born to one of them. Read the book if you want to learn more. It's an intriguing story.

13 August, 2009 10:41
Roger Smith said...

No one will go back this far...but, while I lived in
San Antonio, I discovered the Hilton sisters had quite a history there. Indeed, in an eclectic shop, I found their personal collection of photos of their fellow vaudevillians. There were dozens of them, and may even still be there. Sadly, a scant few were signed. The rest were not and remain unidentified unless a devoted historian could see them. I couldn't afford them as none were of flea market prices, and my collection efforts were otherwise budgeted. I left SA in '98, and can only hope this store is still there, and didn't go the way of the Hertzberg.

25 August, 2009 18:07
Chic Silber said...

Roger do you know what happened

to the collection from the

Hertzberg Museum

25 August, 2009 21:52

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