The Cherry Orchard the debut of "The Cherry Orchard" by the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 (Stanislavski's birthday) was a resounding theatrical success and the play was almost immediately presented in many of the important provincial cities. This success was not confined only to Russia, as the play was soon seen abroad with great acclaim as well. Shortly after the play's debut, Chekhov departed for Germany due to his worsening health, and by July 1904 he was dead. The modest and newly urbanized audiences attending pre-revolutionary performances at S. V. Panin's People's House in Saint Petersburg reportedly cheered as the cherry
Cherry Sisters mentioned in "Changing Husbands" (1924), when Leatrice Joy, who wants to become a performer, says she thinks she is so good she can "make Mrs. Fiske look like the Cherry Sisters." The story of the Cherry Sisters is featured as one of the segments in Season 4, Episode 11 of Comedy Central's show "Drunk History". The Cherry Sisters are mentioned in Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong" (1933), when she visits Sing-Sing Prison to see an old flame. The Cherry Sisters was mentioned in an episode of Murdoch Mysteries, season 8, The Keystone Constables. Cherry Sisters The Cherry Sisters –