Sister Act will take you to musical heaven
Take a popular Hollywood comedy, add music, flashy costumes, sets and lighting and you have the divine musical hit ‘Sister Act.’
Way back in 1992, Whoopi Goldberg and Disney’s Touchstone Pictures had a huge comedy hit on their hands with Sister Act, the story of a Vegas lounge singer with big dreams and a terrible boyfriend. Said boyfriend is a mobster who rubs someone out just as Deloris walks in the door but pretends that she saw nothing. She goes to the police and is put under protective custody at St. Katherine’s Parish in San Francisco where she turns the choir into a musical sensation, much to the chagrin of the Reverend Mother.
The film, made for about $31 million, was a smash, grossing over $231 million worldwide. By 2011, Broadway was making a killing by turning Hollywood movies into big stage musicals and Sister Act, which had started life in 2006 at the Pasadena Playhouse, was no exception. A newly revised adaptation of the show opened on Broadway in April 2011 and ran for 561 performances, garnering multiple Tony Award nominations including Best Musical.
Now, Sister Act has hit the road, crossing the country and winding down its tour with a stop at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre (the last show of the Baltimore season). If you’re familiar with the movie, you’ll be pretty familiar with the show even though the location has been changed to Philadelphia and the time has been set back to the 1970s, and adding a bit of an unrequited love interest for Deloris.
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