The q&a: the apple sisters, variety act, future stars

By Deborah Stoll

It’s a rare opportunity to sit down with a star before everyone knows about them. But on a fire-hot summer morning in Los Angeles I got the chance to meet three such ladies: The Apple Sisters, a 1940s variety act performed by Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson and Sarah Lowe. Ripping a page from vaudeville, with Hepburn accents and Betty Boop moves, these gals are subversively funny, sexy and just plain weird. Described by the LA Times as “Sarah Silverman meets The Shaggs”, it’s impossible to conceive a more apt description.

Fresh off a win for Outstanding Original Music from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards in late September, and boasting a new entourage of managers, agents and lawyers to support them on their move to Hollywood, these sisters are on a fast track to fame. Deborah Stoll gets to their core.