Also, my SOLO SHOW, the Engagement returns September 4th. I would LOVE if you could come. I'm sharing the bill with the extraordinarily talented Alicia Levy. Check out the beautiful postcard below by my love, Matt Johnson.
Love, Kimmy
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Upcoming Shows! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The APPLE SISTERS EXTENDED Thursdays Aug 14, 21, 28 @ 8pm The PIT (154 West 29th btwn 6-7 Ave, NYC), $8 The Apple Sisters Variety Show BUT TIX
Totally Worth It 2 solo shows that are more than you bargained for. Thursdays Sept 4, 11, 18, & 25 @ 8pm (154 West 29th btwn 6-7 Ave, NYC), $8 Tickets available soon!! THE GONG SHOW Coming Soon on Comedy Central! We think August 28th!
You can help us make $1 if you sign up for ourstage.
For every new member that joins OurStage through us, we get ONE DOLLAR, or as its better known, 0.62 euro cents. In fact, we can make up to $5,000 (or 314,100 euro cents) as long as we get up to 5,000 new members to sign up. You know what they call that?: A whole bunch of money. You know what I call that?: $5,000 off of my movie-making debt. You know what they call that in Europe?: Chump change from a slumping economy!
This Monday, The Apple Sisters will be heading to the Montreal Comedy Festival. Hooray! I've been locked in my apartment doing sound editing for the most awesome pilot to hit America "Next Song Off Our New Album." In the meantime - blamo!
LAUGH The Apple Sisters Variety Show What: A cheeky play on a '40s-era radio broadcast, complete with original dances; three-part harmonies; and sponsors like Corndy, the corn-flavored candy. Why: One a day keeps the doctor away. When: Thurs., 8 p.m. July 24 & 31, 8 p.m. Where:The PIT, 154 W. 29th St., b/t Sixth & Seventh Aves., 2nd flr. (212-563-7488).
The Apple Sisters is registered with the New York "IT" Awards - that's the New York Innovative Theatre Awards, celebrating Off-Off-Broadway. These are awards specifically for Off-Off-Broadway theatre, and your vote will make a big difference.
Below you will find the website and instructions on how to vote.
You can vote for us at www.nyitawards.com. Just click "Cast Your Vote".
We are eligible for several awards:
Outstanding Production of a Musical Outstanding Full Length Script Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, and Sarah Lowe Outstanding Director of Play: Tom Ridgely Outstanding Choreography: Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, and Sarah Lowe Outstanding Lighting Design: Andrew Costello Outstanding Costume Design: Jessica Glenn Outstanding Original Music: Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Sarah Lowe, Andy Hertz, and Jeff Solomon Outstanding Ensemble Performance: Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role: Kimmy Gatewood Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role: Rebekka Johnson Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role: Sarah Lowe Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role: Brendan Gallagher Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role: Pat Shepard
Peoples Improv TheaterBy Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson and Sarah Lowe. Dir. Tom Ridgely. With Gatewood, Johnson and Lowe.
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By the end of an Apple Sisters show, Candy, Cora and Seedy Apple (Rebekka Johnson, Kimmy Gatewood and Sarah Lowe, respectively) are heaving, sweating and covered in a patina of pudding and corn. The packed house is going nuts, clearly appreciating how rare it is to watch original dance numbers, hear three-part harmonies and witness grown women spit kernals on one another in an upstart indie comedy show.
The trio of comics, who create their own script, songs and moves, play the sister stars of a popular radio hour in 1943, channeling the juvenile Judy Garland in their inflections and inhabiting all of the period's innocence and patriotism with tongues in cheeks. In the current "live broadcast," a best-of revue culled from the last year of variety shows, the sisters prepare for a trip overseas to entertain the Allied forces. The characters are dull-witted but good-natured. They're adorable in their cluelessness, especially Cora, the daftest of the three—Gatewood was tailor-made for this character; her wide eyes and constant hamming steal the spotlight in almost every scene.
The show soars during its silliest moments, which are also its most unique. Throughout the night, the sisters thank their sponsors, one of which is candy corn, which turns out to be just corn, which ends up all over them. Dissection would ruin such a simple gag, so let's just say this: There's something gut-funny and satisfying about watching gorgeous, leggy ladies inexplicably make themselves unattractive, a tenet Amy Sedaris proves again and again. At the start of the song "Hey There Puddin' "—as in, "Hey there puddin', I wanna kiss you"—the Apples slink across the stage crooning sexy lyrics; male audience members whistle on cue. Then the girls pucker their lips and mash them into individual bowls of chocolate pudding, coming up for air with brown goo dripping off their faces, and smiling broadly as if nothing was off. The moment the crowd's coos switch involuntarily to ewws is priceless.
The number "Pink Wine" bends toward a feminist message with its suggestion that a glass can make any depressed housewife feel bubbly (we won't spoil this one). And the finale, "War Is Great!," skates close by a satire of the American military. But one would be remiss to search for too much meaning in an Apple Sisters show. After all, the ladies are about to be USO stars. They're here to entertain with high kicks, catchy melodies and a lot of stage makeup. But troops paying attention will occasionally catch those blue-shadowed eyelids winking.
Peoples Improv TheaterBy Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson and Sarah Lowe. Dir. Tom Ridgely. With Gatewood, Johnson and Lowe.
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By the end of an Apple Sisters show, Candy, Cora and Seedy Apple (Rebekka Johnson, Kimmy Gatewood and Sarah Lowe, respectively) are heaving, sweating and covered in a patina of pudding and corn. The packed house is going nuts, clearly appreciating how rare it is to watch original dance numbers, hear three-part harmonies and witness grown women spit kernals on one another in an upstart indie comedy show.
The trio of comics, who create their own script, songs and moves, play the sister stars of a popular radio hour in 1943, channeling the juvenile Judy Garland in their inflections and inhabiting all of the period's innocence and patriotism with tongues in cheeks. In the current "live broadcast," a best-of revue culled from the last year of variety shows, the sisters prepare for a trip overseas to entertain the Allied forces. The characters are dull-witted but good-natured. They're adorable in their cluelessness, especially Cora, the daftest of the three—Gatewood was tailor-made for this character; her wide eyes and constant hamming steal the spotlight in almost every scene.
The show soars during its silliest moments, which are also its most unique. Throughout the night, the sisters thank their sponsors, one of which is candy corn, which turns out to be just corn, which ends up all over them. Dissection would ruin such a simple gag, so let's just say this: There's something gut-funny and satisfying about watching gorgeous, leggy ladies inexplicably make themselves unattractive, a tenet Amy Sedaris proves again and again. At the start of the song "Hey There Puddin' "—as in, "Hey there puddin', I wanna kiss you"—the Apples slink across the stage crooning sexy lyrics; male audience members whistle on cue. Then the girls pucker their lips and mash them into individual bowls of chocolate pudding, coming up for air with brown goo dripping off their faces, and smiling broadly as if nothing was off. The moment the crowd's coos switch involuntarily to ewws is priceless.
The number "Pink Wine" bends toward a feminist message with its suggestion that a glass can make any depressed housewife feel bubbly (we won't spoil this one). And the finale, "War Is Great!," skates close by a satire of the American military. But one would be remiss to search for too much meaning in an Apple Sisters show. After all, the ladies are about to be USO stars. They're here to entertain with high kicks, catchy melodies and a lot of stage makeup. But troops paying attention will occasionally catch those blue-shadowed eyelids winking.
Hey Folks! Like Hillary and Barak before us, we here at "Nerdcore Rising" find ourselves in the midst of a fierce primary struggle. As you might already know from Wolf Blitzer's "We Report, You Decide" coverage on CNN, "Nerdcore Rising" is running for President of the From Here to Awesome Discovery & Distribution Festival!
What do we win if we win? That's a good question. We would win different types of distribution deals on multiple platforms, screenings in various cities around the country, free marketing/promotion from fancy big name outlets, and we would win the right to preside as President Pro tempore over the US Senate. Basically, winning would be really really terribly awesome and it would make it more likely for the movie to come to a theatre near you. Like actually near you.
But we need your help. The schtick behind "From Here to Awesome" is that audiences actually help curate the festival. i.e. we report (what films are in the running) and you decide (what films make it to the top ten). FHTA has created an elaborate algorithm that involves, your "awesome vote" on the FHTA website, our youtube hit stats, our youtube subscriber stats, our myspace subscriber stats, our Twitter follow stats, the number of comments our videos get, and the square root of Avogadro's Number.
If you're feeling extra frisky/democratic: *Please register to FHTA so you can vote "awesome" on the button below our vid (before June 6): http://fromheretoawesome.com/wp-signup.php
If our fanbase proves to be more hardcore than the other fanbases - and I believe you are! - then we get into the Top Ten and become an official selection of FROM HERE TO AWESOME. The result will be: more screenings, more distribution, and utopia.
Please help!!!!
Love & Vote-Begging, Negin & Team Nerdcore Rising: The Movie
PS: If you're really feeling like going the extra mile, please follow this link to OurStage and sign up - for every new member that signs up to OurStage through this link, Nerdcore Rising gets $1 - which in the world of oh-so-broke-credit-card-debt-laden-negin, is a painfully necessary thing. Plus, OurStage is awesome, its really trying to give independent musicians a designated platform to reach audiences and its giving audiences a chance to bypass record execs, radio playlists, and critics in deciding what tunes are worth listening to. http://www.ourstage.com/banner/charity_bookmark/nerdcorerising
PPS: Do you live in Oklahoma City? Cause we're gonna be there as the Closing Night Film at the DeadCENTER Film Festival on June 14. I would love to meet you there.
PPPS: We now sell tshirts online! I know, I know, I can barely contain my excitement either: ht tp://nerdcorerisingthemovie.com/shop.html
Thank you to everyone who came to the ENGAGEMENT last night. It was maaaaarvelous! One more showing this month - Tuesday June 10th @ 9:30pm at the PIT (154 West 29th Street).
Here's an oldie, but a goodie. I did some a video called "Men Won't Watch This" with the funniest and most talented women in NYC. I'm pretty sure everyone in this is going to be super famous. Take a look - it's a spoof of the show "Starting Over" for fans of mid-day reality TV about women in a healing house!
The TV pilot I shot in Tennessee is coming right along! Wowwee - it's going to be awesome (and hilarious)
So, I did these 2 videos recently. The first is a parody of the Tricia Walsh Smith video made by me, Randy Pearlstein (Chappelle's Show), Kevin Scott & Matt Oberg. Right now it's the NUMBER one video on Youtube comedy. What have I learned from that, you ask? Well, youtubers like to comment on my boobs. I was wearing a great bra, what can I say?
The second video is a hilarious glam rock video by Mark Douglas & Bryan Olsen. With me, Andres Dubouchet, Roger Hailes. It's a gem & I wear 6 inch heels
So I entered the youtube Sketchies 2 contest on a whim. My camera broke on Saturday, but thanks to the amazing Canedy Knowles, I got another camera. And thanks to Rebekka Johnson & her kitty Schneider this was possible!
Thank you!!! Comment and say nice things. The contest rules are under 3 minutes (nailed it), has to include a musical instrument (obvious), and has to have a road trip theme (welllll - I may have stretched it, but I go on a road trip every time I see my wonderful boyfriend Matt who inspired the song. love you!)
