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The Cherry Sisters Revisited
By Dan O?Brian
DIRECTED BY ANDREW LEYNSE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRIMARY STAGES
April 2 & 3, 2006
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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?
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| CAST/CREW |
Dawn Dunlop
Production Stage Manager
Amir Khosrowpour
Composer
Mary Louise Geiger
Lighting Consultant
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