On February 25, 2011, the University of Denver's music program held a musical at the Lamont School of Music. One of my suitemates, Cecilie Nygaard, was cast as one of the lead roles and I wanted to see how all of her hard work paid off. The musical was amazingly entertaining and I was blown away by Cecilie's incredible voice. The musical, entitled "Side Show" was about siamese twins that are part of the freak show at a circus and are discovered by a businessman due to their incredible singing voices. The other freaks in the show are not so willing to let them leave, but they finally do in order to create better lives for themselves. They were mistreated in the circus and they left in order to find fame in happiness. However, life is never that simple.
One of the twins, Daisy, falls for the businessman and the other twin, Violet, falls for the businessman's associate. This was an excellent plot twist as the businessman lusts after Daisy but refuses to commit to her due to the fact that he cannot look past the fact that she is a siamese twin. The businessman's associate proposes to Violet and she has a small glimpse of happiness as she thinks she founds someone who loves her. However, while he does care for her, he is marrying her for the wrong reasons and the wedding cannot go through. Right as Violet calls off the wedding, the twins are approached to star in a film by MGMT, and they agree to it just to find out that the title of the film is "Freaks." It was ultimately a heartbreaking storyline as neither of the twins find true love or acceptance from the world around them. I found a related a great deal to the twins as all they wanted was to be normal and to find somebody who loved them for who they truly were. After all, there is a little bit of a "freak" in us all. However, the entire musical was beautifully done and it makes me excited to go see another musical.
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