Sister Act arrives at Seattle's Paramount Theatre This week, since I saw this show on Broadway in 2011, I am reposting my RE-view. If the Broadway version impressed me, then get ready for ride! Be sure to get tickets, now thru Aug 25th.
The Whoopi star rises as her most famous character (Sister Mary Clarence/Delores) jumps from the Big screen to London to Broadway, This show is Whoopi's lasting legacy. (so fitting that is took over the same Theater that once housed Oprah's The Color Purple a few years back!)
While in NY, I had a great experience of attending the Tuesday, August 23, 2011 performance of 'Sister Act, The Musical'. My date for the Evening was Dot429's event extraordinare, Jason Dorn and we were thrilled with our Seats (Row I, Seats 102 and 103) and the glitter and soul made an enjoyable evening.
Victoria Clark plays the stern mother superior in the musical “Sister Act,” based on the film.
The Cast had great mix of Black and white characters, from Clark to Fred Applegate's O'Hara to Sarah Bolt's Greatest impression of Kathy Njamy's Marty Patrick to the star turn of Patina Miller's Delores and the hilarity of Desmond Green.
Based on the movie starring Whoopi Goldberg as a club singer forced to smother her sequined soul beneath a nun’s habit after she witnesses a murder, “Sister Act” has been seen in several previous incarnations, most successfully in London. This reworked version is directed by a veteran Broadway specialist in tracking laughs, Jerry Zaks, and features a seasoning of new gags supplied by the gifted comic playwright Douglas Carter Beane (“The Little Dog Laughed,” “Xanadu”).
As adapted by the book writers Cheri and Bill Steinkellner and scored by Alan Menken (music) and Glenn Slater (lyrics), this sentimental story of a bad girl showing the good sisters how to get down has all the depth of a communion wafer, and possibly a little less bite.
As adapted by the book writers Cheri and Bill Steinkellner and scored by Alan Menken (music) and Glenn Slater (lyrics), this sentimental story of a bad girl showing the good sisters how to get down has all the depth of a communion wafer, and possibly a little less bite.
Deloris’s converts to the cause are played with genial comic finesse by Sarah Bolt as the jolly Sister Mary Patrick; Marla Mindelle as the sweetly mousy postulant Mary Robert; and the particularly funny Audrie Neenan as the puckered-up, sarcastic Sister Mary Lazarus.
The set of the glitterly stain glass windows to the sequined habit costumes to the soul sisterhood of the cast will make any Broadway queen blush.
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