Carnival barkers all played by same actor

Apparently, playing all three roles was the only way Kevin Conway would accept being in the movie. I don't think it's the same character, however (though that would be hilarious), as they have slightly different hairstyles and outfits. Still made it kind of confusing though.

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Three different characters.

The actor wanted to play all three parts.

It was his request. He had just won the Tony and he read the script during the New York casting session. He said he'd love to do it, but he wanted to play all three parts. I said, if you can pull it off, nothing would be better. And he did. He pulled it off.

He gave me samples to choose from. But we worked harder on finding the funhouse barker where the other two shots of him as other barkers were brief. He would invert lines, too. "All mistakes, creatures of God not man," he'd say, asking how it was. Right on, Kevin, right on. He's a really good actor. He's really good when he's talking to the "anomaly" in one scene and referring to the little Girl Scouts in Dallas. And he says, "That was the worst." [laughs] I, at first, wanted him to pace around in that scene. He told me it'd be better if I just lock him down because he wanted the camera to see his eyes. That was it. You can see this twisted pleasure in his look as he talked about these half-pint Girl Scouts in Dallas. Jesus.