Sister Act First Preview

I'll be at the second preview :) I'm actually very much looking forward to it, the score sounds pretty great.

Probably, but frankly the London cast was better, so I don't particularly care.

Previews and the performance on The View. The most interesting character when I saw it in London was Mary Robert, and the girl playing it on Broadway just isn't as powerful a singer as the one in the OLC.

So, no, not the entire cast, but the ones that I care most about? Yes.

I loved this show when I saw it in London. Hope I get to see it in NYC this year! I hope all of you going really enjoy it. It's just a lot of fun.

The performance on The View was also very early in rehearsals. I'm sure all of the performances and characterizations have evolved since then.

According to sh-k-boom there will be no broadway recording. They will be reissuing the london recording.

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I couldn't agree more with CapnHook! see the show then form an opinion.

Going to the first preview tonight.

can someone pick me up a playbill tonight? i'll pay for it and shipping. thanks.

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Been looking forward to this show. Sure hope that it's a pick-me-up from Wonderland.

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Ugh, they changed how I got the calling to it's good to be a nun. I saw the first preview in London, and every change made it so much better except that song was such a step back.

Caught tonights performance- it's certainly big and rousing, has a fun score and I think will be a strong word of mouth performer. Patina is appealing and really delivers. Vicki Clark is wonderful as always, and as expected is a little bit wasted, even with a new Act 2 solo.

Supporting cast (most carbon copies of their film counterparts) are uniformly good.

For my money the biggest thing that needs work is that it's way too long. Every supporting character has a song; some as individual numbers are fun, but really we don't care. What we want is Deloris and the nuns. There are at least three songs I think they should consider cutting. And as fun as the score is, I do have to say I'm not sure I ultimately agree with the change setting this in the disco era- not only is that music incredibly repetitive - it encourages a lot of pastiche material that is about 3 notes away from the original-- sometimes Sister Act feels like a juke box show even when it's not.

But there is something down and dirty about that disco era that- this is going to sound weird- but when mayched with the catholic church and nuns almost borders on bad taste, to that end I misses the goofy innocence of the original film and it's 1950s goody goody music catalogue.

But all that said- the show is a definitely a good time

Running time tonight was about 2:40 (did I mention they need to cut) but went smoothly.

The show curtain is a grand red drape