The Cherry Orchard Cherry Orchard" was Chekhov's tribute to himself. Many of the characters in the play hearken back to his earlier works and are based on people he knew in his own life. It should also be noted that his boyhood house was bought and torn down by a wealthy man that his mother had considered a friend. The breaking guitar string in acts 2 and 4 hark back to his earliest works. Finally the classic "loaded gun" that appears in many of Chekhov's plays appears here, but this is his only play in which a gun is shown but not fired.
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 –