Go See Side Show

[iholland95]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 9:01am

I have heard so many wonderful things about Side Show and I encourage everyone to go see it! I haven't seen the production yet but can't stop listening to the soundtrack and watch videos of the commercials on TV so check out the following website and youtube videos for more information:

http://sideshowbroadway.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iau--dMlElo

Updated On: 11/22/14 at 09:01 AM

[bfreak]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 9:05am

I don't even think that anybody else really needs to reply after this to expose what you are: a shill!

[followspot]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 9:57am

Thanks a million for alerting us to SIDE SHOW, iholland95. It's had practically no promotion or discussion here at broadwayworld.com. Now please see if you can find out anything about a rumored INTO THE WOODS film. Without people like you, these little productions can so easily slip by without receiving the attention they deserve.

Updated On: 11/22/14 at 09:57 AM

[bfreak]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 10:22am

Yeah, iholland95 really did a great service over here!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 10:53am

To bfreak

Let me get this straight. You praise a show to high heaven because you like it and that is OK. Anyone else praises a show and they are a shill. Now I get it

God how I hate the word shill especially how it is used to death on this board. Ditto for troll & the ever popular sockpuppet.

Updated On: 11/22/14 at 10:53 AM

[bfreak]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 11:16am

Mr. Rosy, if iholland95 really wanted to talk about how much he liked Side Show, he could just go to either the Side Show Preview page or the Side Show Review Thread and there tell us that he liked the show and why. But the fact that he/she started a brand new thread with no details, and just says to see the show like we here haven't even heard about, those signs point to shill.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 11:25am

And with a link to their website.

[Owen22]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 11:28am

It could be he loves the show and is worried. I was there Wednesday afternoon, two days after the Times rave came out....and theatre was slightly more than half filled.

[Famebroadway2]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 11:32am

For as much as I hate shilling... I can't be mad at this one. The show is doing HORRIBLY in sales. They need everything they can get at the moment.

As much as I want it to outrun the original, I sadly think its not going to even beat their number of performances. Hopefully this week gives them the hope they have been waiting for. I just think its one of those shows that even with great reviews the Broadway audience is just not the crowd for it.

If only it was small enough to transfer to New World Stages ;o)
Updated On: 11/22/14 at 11:32 AM

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 11:32am

Plus, this is the second thread iholland started about Side Show, with the other being a link to a vague Facebook group about the show.

It is a weird pitch for a shill, though: I heard a lot of things about this show, and I encourage everyone to go see it?! What does that mean? The first half sounds like iholland did not personally see the show, which seems a necessary component to then support the encouragement of everyone else to go see it.

I can see Broadway shows paying people to steer the discussions on social media in certain ways (although even that would seem to have dubious value), but there would be a disconnect in going on a message board that is over obsessed about theater, and Broadway in general, to point out that there is a new show called Side Show.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 11:39am

I hear it was quite well attended Thursday and Friday (last) nights. Hopeful.

[Famebroadway2]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 11:40am

I just had a thought.... Wouldn't Side Show work perfectly at Circle in the Square?

Think about it. The space already has that circus ring feel to it. It could easily be made to look you are inside a tent. Oh the possibilities. Obviously, it couldn't happen now, but I wonder if it was ever a thought.
Updated On: 11/22/14 at 11:40 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 11:51am

I stand by my post re shilling & my utter hate of that word & sockpuppet & troll

By the way, if you want to see real freaks look for the movie The Sentinel with Ava Gardner & Chris Sarandon. It was based on a novel . The director was Michael Winner of Death Wish fame. Real freaks were used in a key scene and it was a bit unsettling. Not 1 or 2 but a horde of them. They were not daisy & violet "freaks" but really freaky guys and gals. It was said when it first came out that many Universal secretaries lost it after viewing it.

Updated On: 11/22/14 at 11:51 AM

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 12:53pm

I do not understand the need to start another thread about Side Show, but I saw this show this past week the mezz was like 25% full, so go ahead and promote!

"I stand by my post re shilling & my utter hate of that word & sockpuppet & troll"

The people who use those words regarding posters on this site don't know the meaning of them. It's adorable.

Updated On: 11/22/14 at 12:53 PM

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 2:28pm

Don't you all have anything better to do than start yet another witch hunt?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 2:36pm

I'm amused that "go see SIDE SHOW" constitutes an offensive post, producing bristling resentment and charges of overzealous endorsement. Yet countless puerile discussions of who does stage door, what's the merch, who signs, and who do you get stuff back from (a personal favorite) somehow produces the heady climate of a theatrical salon.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/22/14 at 3:06pm

Hallelujah. Finally the voice of reason

People go on & on & on re Idina and what she does every waking moment of the day. If not that, who signs & when & where is the best place to stand. More inanities than you care to mention are passed off as serious theater discussion but someone praise a show. Heaven forbid. Let us keep wanting a show to close before it opens so there is a free theater or unmercifully trash a show someone does not like & calling it a turd or saying it does not deserve to be on Broadway. Yeah this is really serious theater discussion

Maybe we should have a board of censors to pass judgment on what shows can be praised & what ones cannot. I do not bother championing shows anymore. It simply is not worth the time & effort.