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Oscar, Tony and Emmy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg will be bringing the hit film 'Sister Act' to Broadway in the spring of 2011.
Goldberg, who starred as lounge singer Deloris van Cartier in the 1992 blockbuster and its sequel, 'Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,' will be producing the musical along with Stage Entertainment UK. The show originally opened in Los Angeles at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2006 (starring 'A Different World' actress Dawnn Lewis), before starting productions in Atlanta and London.
The New York native is set to play the role of Mother Superior in the West End production -- which currently stars Patina Miller as Dolores van Cartier -- for a limited engagement, Aug. 10-31.
According to Broadwayworld.com, the record-breaking production has been seen by more than a million people and was recently nominated in seven categories at this year's Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers Choice Awards and for four Olivier Awards.
The show's original cast recording is also a big favorite with fans, recently reaching No. 1 on the iTunes Soundtrack chart.
A German production will open in Hamburg in December, followed by productions in Australia, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Italy, France and Spain soon after.
While the Broadway cast has yet to be announced, the behind-the-scenes talent come with several pedigrees: the New York production will be directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, while the music is scored by Academy, Grammy and Golden Globe Award-winning composers Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. The book is written by Emmy Award winners Cheri and Bill Steinkellner, and choreography will be led by Anthony Van Laast.
When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place cops are sure she won't be found -- a convent! Disguised as a nun, she finds herself at odds with both the rigid lifestyle and an uptight Mother Superior.
Using her fabulous disco-ness and killer voice to inspire the choir, Deloris breathes new life into the church and community, but in doing so blows her cover.
Soon it's nun-on-the-run time, but she finds salvation in the heavenly power of her newly found sisterhood.
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By: Gorgeous on 7/10/2010 2:05PM
We saw the West End production in June. Outstanding music, sets, and actors. It's time it came to Broadway.
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By: toughcritic on 7/10/2010 2:15PM
"Breathed new life into the church"? The Catholic Church is not the Baptist Church, the Holy Rollers or Evangelical song fests. It does not need Whoopi Goldberg, an ex Catholic, to demean, disrespect and denigrate its' historic, beautiful sacred traditions and music with wailing, disrespectful music and dialogue. The play, NUNSENSE, was funny as any Catholic educated adult knows and there were many humorous things about the wonderful nuns to relfect and smile about but to turn a convent into a joke is something else. Let Whoopi do what she does best, scatalogical humor against all her political and show business enemies.
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By: Connie on 7/10/2010 2:21PM
Oh get over yourself, toughcritic. One of the problems with some of the members of the Catholic church is their very distinct lack of humor.
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By: rob man on 7/10/2010 2:29PM
You're right - the Catholic church is none o0f those othergroups that you mentioned. But demeaning sacred traditions pales in the face of choir boy molestation, don't you think?
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By: imabb on 7/10/2010 2:33PM
['Breathed new life..' referred to the fictional church where she was hiding out..nobody cares about the real catholic church
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By: Ron on 7/10/2010 4:01PM
Get over yourself, with all the problems that the Catholic Church is having...this is NOT the time to be judgemental about a Broadway musical. Now a play about priest molesting young boys would be a topic to protest.
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By: Joseph on 7/10/2010 4:20PM
The Catholic church is a hypocritical joke all by itself. It preaches one thing and does another. Guilt sit stand kneel redemption guilt fear sit stand kneel stand up walk around get a cracker and fear is all the Catholic church is to me (this is from being forced to go to Catholic church and Sunday school as a kid). Religion in itself is a major farce.
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By: waycross48 on 7/10/2010 4:51PM
You are so right about the Catholic church - BUT, it is those very"historical traditions" that make the services dead and unmoving, uninspiring. The services I've been in have been like a funeral. So, in this movie, Whoopi brought some real, much needed LIFE into the Cathoic church where she was assigned. And, it did what it would have done in real life - it brought some inspiring LIFE into the church, the community and it's poeple. This is why most Chatholic churches are loosing young people in droves! There is no life in the church to keep them there.
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By: David on 7/10/2010 5:44PM
Toughcritic, I found Nunsense to be kind of silly, pedestrian and very average in it's writing. Sister Act was very funny and just because you don't like Whoopi is no reason to dislike a piece of work that is well done. Your prejudices are showing.
As far as demeaining and disrespecting the catholic church, it doesn't need other people to do so. With all the scandals and lies it's spitting out it's losing it's respect on it's own quite well.
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By: John F. C. Taylor on 7/10/2010 6:19PM
I don't think you could be more wrong in your opinion of Sister Act. I think that the movies have presented a very positive view of the Catholic church. Only thing I regret is that they couldn't have introduced a pop/rock version of Onward Christian Soldiers or Rock Of Ages.
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