NYTimes.com: Emily Padgett and Erin Davie stood shoulder to shoulder and hip to hip while stagehands focused lights on and around them during a recent rehearsal for the Broadway revival of “Side Show.” Ms. Padgett ran a hand through her curly wig, parted on the opposite side of Ms. Davie’s. Ms. Davie toyed with the hem of her red dress, a mirror image of Ms. Padgett’s. When they sang the final chorus to the ballad “Who Will Love Me as I Am?,” their voices melded so seamlessly you could hardly tell which bright note issued from which lipsticked mouth.
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I had the pleasure of seeing this show at its origins in San Diego at the La Jolla Playhouse. I think the 'making of conjoined twins' is so cool and amazing, but the show itself has some faults in my opinion. Padgett and Davie, although 'connected' and believable, didn't bring enough to the roles to make me truly care about their situation. Yes, theyre both very individual, but instead of helping them i felt as if it was detrimental to the reality of the situation of being conjoined twins.
It's kind of amazing how these two women, essentially brought together because they happened to look somewhat alike, are able to act so closely, even in their lives off stage. Based on the brief summaries of their experiences before "Side Show," the two were pretty different to begin with, but I wonder what it was about them that let them mesh so neatly when other people can clash so violently. It's almost bizarre, the way they as two individuals have started acting almost as one entity -- whether because they were similar in the right ways or if they just play off of each other. It might be interesting to see what happens when they argue, if in fact they do.
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