Generally Amanda and Jason both as individual performers have developed a following because they simply make people happy. I found dreamy, silly, crazed, happy people every time I’ve seen them in action. It’s kind of like having an odd relative come into town. You don’t really know them terribly well but you know of them and personal experience has proved that whatever they are up to its well intentioned and usually extremely kind.

It seems to me the worst thing we can do in regards to the subject of persons with disabilities or other marginalized groups is become so uncomfortable with the subject that everything is sanitized and dumbed down till mainstream society can conveniently “not-see” those that don’t fit into the tidy prefab concept of what a person is, or isn’t. How many have suffered over the centuries because you don’t talk about something because its “not nice”? How many people pretend a guy in a wheelchair isn’t in a wheelchair as if somehow that means HE doesn’t know he’s in a wheelchair? I assure you he knows and he knows YOU know. Does a disability, or becoming victimized mean you no longer have the right or ability to live in reality or use a sense of humor?

My son has a so-called disability. It makes people jump to conclusions if you don’t tell them what’s going on, and jump to more conclusions when you try to enlighten them. It’s a very tiring experience. We can’t vilify every person who hasn’t had a particular experience for trying to understand that experience within their personal limitations. If I did that I’d be mad at just about everyone every day. Meanwhile, I have these songs to keep me happy and they do that for a large number of people.

There’s this great thing people can do if something is not to their taste…move on to the thing that better serves them and enjoy the hell out of that.

PS1: I saw the show together with my twin sister. She found nothing offensive to it. She thought it was amazing. We will see it once more when Jason and Amanda are in town again.

PS2: Apart from sisters, we re also lawyers, obsessed with freedom of speech. And we really think there was nothing wrong with this show.

PS3: Good luck with the international tour.

Talented musicians, interesting concept, intelligent people, no malice intended at all, and I personally have no negative perceptions of people born conjoined, in fact if anything I’m more interested in how the dynamic works. For Evelyn and Evelyn Neville, they create music.