The Cherry Sisters Revisited

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by Dan O’Brian

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Overview

The true story of Addie, Effie, Lizzie, Ella, and Jessie Cherry, five sisters from Marion, Iowa, who took the vaudeville world by storm with the collective awfulness of their talent. Ugly, unfunny, ungraceful, and tone-deaf, they nonetheless (or because of it) rose to the height of their profession, playing to capacity on Broadway, ostensibly without ever knowing that their fame was a kind of trick played on them: the audience was laughing at them, not with them. The Cherry Sisters Revisited imaginatively re-examines this nightmarish fable of ambition and the American entertainment culture, seeking to find an answer to the question: were the Cherry Sisters the victims of this culture, or the architects of their own exploitation?