In 1992 when the first "Sister Act" movie came out, all of the nuns from the Catholic high school I had graduated from went to see it in the movie theater and came back with a list of which fictional nun represented one of the real nuns, and when a tour of "Nunsense" came through, they did the same thing. That proved to me two things, that the irreverence of the show could amuse even the strictest of convents, and that nuns everywhere were enjoying the lighthearted spoofing of their image (whether true or false) and had a sense of humor about what they were seeing on stage, TV and screen. A shot of real life nuns in the audience here proves that all the more, especially one who seems to be weeping from laughing so much.
Taking place in the catholic school auditorium where the students have been preparing for their production of "Grease" (which Mother Superior Rue McClanahan gives another name to), this is a benefits to bury the last of four nuns accidentally killed in a case of botulism. The opening shows the nuns all falling into their vichyssoise, a rather shocking opening but properly keeping in tune with the irreverence. Some of the humor is rather blue, but it's like the misunderstandings from "Three's Company" where one of the roommates assumed something they overheard but didn't see meant something else, confirmed with the truth after the laughter subsided.
Audience participation in this becomes very funny, particularly when the audience member turns out to be Jewish. Outside of the "Maude" and "Golden Girls" veteran, the only familiar face was Broadway veteran Teri White who adds a bit of tough humor to her part. Then there's Sister Mary Amnesia who can't remember her given name, and another nun who just wants to be a star, and Amnesia's puppet nun sidekick who looks like something from the not yet written "Avenue Q". The jokes are corny and the songs silly, but it's less than two hours of "irreverand" humor, and you'll come out of it with a bigger smile than you had going in, showing that there's no business like sensible shoe business.
Taking place in the catholic school auditorium where the students have been preparing for their production of "Grease" (which Mother Superior Rue McClanahan gives another name to), this is a benefits to bury the last of four nuns accidentally killed in a case of botulism. The opening shows the nuns all falling into their vichyssoise, a rather shocking opening but properly keeping in tune with the irreverence. Some of the humor is rather blue, but it's like the misunderstandings from "Three's Company" where one of the roommates assumed something they overheard but didn't see meant something else, confirmed with the truth after the laughter subsided.
Audience participation in this becomes very funny, particularly when the audience member turns out to be Jewish. Outside of the "Maude" and "Golden Girls" veteran, the only familiar face was Broadway veteran Teri White who adds a bit of tough humor to her part. Then there's Sister Mary Amnesia who can't remember her given name, and another nun who just wants to be a star, and Amnesia's puppet nun sidekick who looks like something from the not yet written "Avenue Q". The jokes are corny and the songs silly, but it's less than two hours of "irreverand" humor, and you'll come out of it with a bigger smile than you had going in, showing that there's no business like sensible shoe business.
