From producers Whoopi Goldberg and Stage Entertainment (Hairspray, High School Musical) the smash hit musical comedy SISTER ACT is coming to the Edinburgh Playhouse, direct from its record breaking run at the London Palladium. Read more …
When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won't be found - a convent!
Disguised as a nun she quickly finds fans amongst her fellow 'sisters' but makes the wrong impression on the convent's strict Mother Superior. But when she turns her attention to the church's off-key choir, helping the nuns to find their true voices and breathing new life into the rundown neighbourhood, her cover could be blown for good. With the gang giving chase, is time running out for Deloris? Or have they underestimated the power of her new found Sisterhood?
Based on the smash hit movie of the same name, this fabulous, family-friendly, feel-good show is packed with songs inspired by Motown, funk, soul and disco. More than a million people saw SISTER ACT in the West End and now, as the habit hits the road in this multi-million pound production, you too can see why musical audiences fell in love with the funniest and funkiest nun on the run, and her heavenly sequinned sisters!
An uplifting piece of musical theatre that will undoubtedly leave you praying for more.
An uplifting and entertaining evening at the theatre.
Sister Act the Musical is a cheery, feel-good romp infused with engaging characters and sharp lyrics.
The songs are exuberant, the choreography both brilliant and cheeringly innocent; and in Cynthia Erivo as Doloris, and Coronation Street’s Denise Black as the Mother Superior, it has two fine leading ladies, whose final reconciliation almost literally brings the house down.
A (Mother) Superior Musical!
Collect your guitar, Sister Maria, and dance your way over those hills: Sister Act is the new saviour of musical theatre.
The entertaining end result is bound to make converts of even the most stubborn of musical theatre purists who prefer their nuns to be climbing every mountain in order to escape the Nazis.
Michael Starke runs into nuns again in Sister Act musical
Playhouse, Edinburgh from Tuesday November 1, 2011, until Saturday November 12, 2011. More info: www.edinburgh-playhouse.co.uk
King's Theatre, Glasgow from Tuesday September 11, 2012, until Saturday September 22, 2012. More info: www.theambassadors.com/kings/
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