![Side Show broadway- GIF- Emily Padgett- Erin Davie](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/Side-Show.gif)
Now the timing really couldn’t be more perfect since TV fans worth their salt are immersing themselves every Thursday in the haunting and fascinating world of the side show thanks to Ryan Murphy’s uber-popular series American Horror Story: Freak Show.
![Horror Story Freak Show GIF](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/AHS_GIF.gif)
Below, BroadwayBox looks at 10 similarities between Side Show and Freak Show and why fans of one should run to see the other.
Now we are talking just obvious, OMG, totes comparisons so Elsa and Sir or Elsa and Terry would be too much of a stretch.
1. The star attraction at the freak show is a conjoined set of sisters.
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show - 1](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/SS1.jpg)
2. One dreams of fame while the other is just looking for her love.
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show -2](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/2.jpg)
3. Both sets of sisters were mistreated in their youth by their guardians.
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show -](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/3.jpg)
4. In addition to their unique look, the sisters also draw crowds with their gift of song.
5. The musical numbers are worth obsessing over hardcore.
6. In that time a talented "freak" could easily make a name in vaudeville.
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show -6](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/6.jpg)
7. For freaks, private joyous events like marriages and births are just another day of public amusements.
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show -7](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/7.jpg)
8. The gang of freaks and oddities is also a little familiar:
There's a geek![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show - Geek](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/geek.jpg)
Dwarfs
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show - dwarf](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/dwarves.jpg)
A fortune teller
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show -Fortune teller](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/fortune.jpg)
A bearded lady
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show -Bearded lady](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/bearded.jpg)
An intersex person
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show -](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/ang.jpg)
9. But fans are drawn in by the family of freaks and their real offstage bonds.
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show -9](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/9.jpg)
10. And soon enough, you learn that they are just like us only extraordinary looking...except the American Horror Story freaks, those guys kill.
![Side Show- American Horror Story Freak Show -10](https://img.broadwaybox.com/photo/image/10.jpg)
Side Show is now in performances at Broadway’s St. James Theatre.