Sister Act
Shows · Sister Act
When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is placed in witness protection in a convent. Clashing spectacularly with the strict Mother Superior, Deloris takes over the church choir and transforms the tone-deaf nuns into a soul-singing sensation that packs the pews — but the publicity threatens to expose her hiding place to the gangster who wants her dead.
- Opened
- 2011
- Performances
- 561
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions2 on Broadway
| 2009 | London Palladium Transfer. · predates this show | |
| 2011 | Original Theatre unknown. · Jerry Zaks | 561 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 5 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Sister Act matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
6 passages naming Sister Act, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
She was also one of the nuns in the 1992 film Sister Act, which also includes a number of obscure Broadway performers such as Ruth Kobart, Susan Browning, and Susan Johnson, the latter another refugee from Donnybrook! book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p299
Fish Out of Water: Book of Mormon, Priscilla Queen, Scottsboro, Pitmen Painters, Sister Act, Catch Me If You Can. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2010-to-may-2011-viagas-robert-7th-annual-ed#p13
The Scottsboro Boys, Sister Act book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2010-to-may-2011-viagas-robert-7th-annual-ed#p420
Holdover show Sister Act rocked a convent full of nuns singing gospel. Another holdover, The Book of Mormon continued to have fun (and earn a million dollars a week) with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2011-to-may-2012-viagas-robert-8th-annual-ed#p7
Kings of New York: Two composers had three musicals playing simultaneously: Alan Menken had Sister Act, Newsies and Leap of Faith. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2011-to-may-2012-viagas-robert-8th-annual-ed#p13
Wickes enjoyed a late-career renaissance with the Sister Act movies, playing Sister Mary Lazarus. book:today-in-history-musicals-today-in-history-stollenwerk-joe-1973-today-in-history#p178
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