LA Times Pick - "It’s Sarah Silverman meets the Shaggs"
Metromix LA Pick
defamer.com - Best Things to Do in LA
(Critics Pick) "In this 1940s-era song-and-dance show, radio ingenues Candy, Cora, and Seedy woo the audience with big voices and naive hearts." - Time Out NY
"There is definitely something magical about the girls and the people they’ve surrounded themselves with that seems to always make the show a success."
- The Apiary
"I might have laughed more at the trio’s Friday night show, but only if my jaw hadn’t kept dropping at the brilliance of the concept and writing and the happy audacity of its execution."
- The Oregonian
"Think The Andrews Sisters crossed with The 3 Stooges but with the subversive wit of an Amy Sedaris."
- The Portland Mercury
"Fireside chats ain’t got nothing on the Apple Sisters... a tongue-in-cheek mix of patriotic naiveté and gut-churning sight gags."
- Flavorpill
"There’s something gut-funny and satisfying about watching gorgeous, leggy ladies inexplicably make themselves unattractive, a tenet Amy Sedaris proves again and again."
- Time Out NY
"One a day keeps the doctor away."
- Daily Candy
"The show soars!"
- Time Out NY
"It’s a tight thirty-minutes of close harmony, ingenious choreography and broad comedy" – The Villager
"Original, innovative, multi-layered, and subtly subversive." - Charleston City Paper
Website
theapplesisters.com
Influences
Andrew Sisters, Three Stooges, Marx Brothers, Carole Lombard, Maria Van Trappe, Lucille Ball, Rosie the Riveter
Members
(Critics Pick) “Best of Sketchfest” –Time Out Chicago
"After playing LA and Chicago, the prolific writers, lyricists, and choreographers present a much anticipated best-of show" – Time Out New York " "
As American as the pie, los hermanas Apple are 3 girls whose slightly askew worldview makes for one of the freshest comedy voices in the city. Imagine a kids show run by recovering alcoholics repressing their dark edge. -neighborbeeblog.com
"The Apple Sisters have been putting on one of the best shows in town lately." - The Apiary
“Go see them”
-Whirled Weakly Noose Podcast
“Favorites included the Apple Sisters, an all-singing, all tap-dancing trio
who create a sweet nostalgia for the great music of the 1940s while chirpily sneaking in a few double entendres.”
- John Longenbaugh, Seattle Weekly
“Pitch Perfect”
-- Chelsea Now
“Don’t Miss”
-- Backstage West
“It sounds stupid, but they’re great!”
-The Stranger
Agent: United Talent Agency
Manager: Principato-Young Entertainment
Legal: Marc Glick and Stephen Breimer
For booking contact info [at] theapplesisters [dot] com
Appearances/Venues
Montreal Comedy Festival
Comedy Central - The GONG SHOW with Dave Attell
SketchfestNYC
Webster Hall with Ingrid Michealson
Bowery Ballroom with Ingrid Michaelson
The Peoples Improv Theater
Comedy Central Stage
Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre – LA
New York Comedy Festival
Seattle Sketchfest
Charleston Comedy Festival
San Francisco Sketchfest
Chicago Sketchfest
Sketchprov Festival
Live from the Future with Stuart Paap!
EAG Benefit with Arthur Anderson
Mo Pitkins
Rififi
The Duplex
TV Shows
KIMMY GATEWOOD (Cora Apple) can be seen and heard in tons of national commercials and voiceovers including the recent Mastercard commercial with Peyton Manning (named Best Ad by Ad Week). She was named Best of Time Out NY, ECNY Best Musical Act Nominee, and Andy Kaufman Semi-Finalist. She’s performed at every improv theatre in NYC, including a 4 ½ year stint with the off-Broadway show Chicago City Limits. Her writing credits include, Oxygen, Idiots Guide to Jokes, SCarrie: the Musical and numerous industrials. She is a partner at Vaguely Qualified Productions which produced Comedy Central’s THE WATCH LIST and currently, the feature documentary film NERDCORE RISING. Kimmy is currently teaching at the People’s Improv Theatre. Check out her latest music video on myspace.com/kimmygatewood
REBEKKA JOHNSON (Candy Apple), best known for her work on the MTV hit show "Boiling Points" has performed in various sketch and improv shows across the country, including the Neutrino Video Projects which was an official selection at the 2004 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. She has performed in many shows at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre including Killgore The Musical and Gravid Water. She currently teaches improvisation at The People’s Improv Theater. Rebekka recently appeared on Law and Order: Criminal Intent. She has also leant her distinctive voice to numerous commercial radio campaigns.
SARAH LOWE (Seedy Apple) actually grew up back stage with a Director/Stage manager Father and a Broadway dancing Mother. She has been performing in television, commercials and stage shows since childhood. Some of her credits include the off-Broadway hit The Donkey Show and the premiere Las Vegas production of Mamma Mia, as well as pretty much ALL the soaps. Currently she can be seen at the People’s Improv Theatre with the improv team The Baldwins. Her grandmother on her mother’s side was in the 1930’s radio group "The Clark Sisters" and her grandmother on her Father’s side was Ruby Keeler. She couldn’t be more pleased or at home with "The Apple Sisters".
Films
TOM RIDGELY (Director) is a co-founder of the experimental theater company, Waterwell, and has directed its Life In Pink, Sweetness & Light, The Persians…a comedy about war with five songs, Marco Millions (based on lies) [Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Director] and The/King/Operetta. Other NYC credits: Gatewood, Johnson & Lowe’s The Apple Sisters (PIT), Paden Fallis’ The Play About The Coach (Tank) and Rob Reese’s Paradigm (Gotham City). Also for Waterwell: actor/writer on Lost in Yemen, or The Bizarre Bazaar; Fuenteovejuna; and Stuck. Regional: Twelfth Night (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); The Emperor’s New Clothes, Li’l Red and Oh, Jack! (Little Apple Theater Co.); and Those Funny Little People (Chicago, IL).
ANDY COSTELLO (Asst. Director) spends his days as an editor at an academic publishing company in New York City, which --obviously-- has prepared him well for his position as assistant director for the Apple Sisters. He has worked in television and theater as a writing consultant and has contributed to effects for some of the biggest names in magic in England and America as a magic consultant. He is the Apple Sisters 1 fan and cleverly finagled the Assistant Director position in order to receive free admission to their performances.
JEFF SOLOMON (Woody Stem/Music Director) Jeff co-founded Elephant Larry in 2002 with four fellow alumni and moved to New York. Jeff’s also a singer-songwriter, and he just completed his first solo record, "Around the Square," which can be heard at www.jeffsolomonmusic.com. And when Jeff was five, a pelican tried to eat his head. True story
ANDY HERTZ (Andy/Musical Direction) Andy is a composer/lyricist, music director, and pianist living in New York City. He recently worked in Hollywood on the concert version of Jesus Christ Superstar (starring Ben Vereen) and with the Sacramento Music Circus on Aida and A Little Night Music. His
most recent work, Flipside, was the recipient of the 2007 Frederick Loewe
Award. Andy received his BA in music from Brown University and MFA in
musical theatre writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
DANIEL LUDDY (Brownie Stem/Drums)
JEREMY BENT (Rotten Stem/Bass)
KEITH HUANG (Apple Photographer) http://keithhuang.wordpress.com
Keith is a super smart, super talented, and plain ol’ super guy.
MATT JOHNSON (Apple Design) http://www.mcjohnsonfilms.com
He’s a graphic designer and film director. He’s incredibly talented and is very generous.
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5"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. 6But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
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Hey, Sisters! I was working at the Sketch Fest in Portland a couple of weeks ago. You guys totally rocked! I still cannot eat corn without thinking of you guys. I can't wait to see your brilliant humor again! Thanks for the add!
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