Legacy
In 1989 a musical based on the twins, Twenty Fingers Twenty Toes, with book by Michael Dansicker and Bob Nigro and music and lyrics by Michael Dansicker, premiered at the WPA Theatre and ran for 35 performances. The script can be found in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. It began as an accurate portrayal of the twins' early life, but then included a wholly fictitious plot by their keepers to have them surgically separated as adults.
In 1997, a Broadway musical loosely based on the sisters' lives, Side Show, with lyrics by Bill Russell and music by Henry Krieger, received four Tony nominations. In 2012 Leslie Zemeckis filmed an award-winning documentary (Hollywood Film Festival 2012) "Bound by Flesh" on the lives of the twins. The Hollywood reporter called it a "scrupulously researched" and a "masterful film."
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