Chicago Theater Review: SIDE SHOW (Porchlight Music Theatre at Stage 773)
YOKED ASUNDER Don't believe the ironic title of a first-act song: Daisy and Violet Hilton were not your "Typical Girls Next Door." Conjoined (or "Siamese" twins), they were, grotesquely enough, literally born into showbiz–as "freaks" of nature and entertainment. Discarded by their freaked-out mother, the "well-connected" girls were exploited in their native England by a […]