Sister Act Score

No, it's all original.

There is a teeny snippet of a famous disco song (the name escapes me right now) in Take Me To Heaven, but it's literally just a couple of bars.

The score is a lot of fun though. I swear some of those songs would have been hits had they been released in the 70s.

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Thank-U for those comments---I feel better about seeing this show (I have tix for June). I actually have a CD of the original cast recording---someone gave it to me, but haven't listened to it yet. (just got it yesterday) I think I want to see the show before listening to it.

The little snippet of the song that you are speaking of is "The Best of My Love" by the Emotions which is featured very shortly in Take Me To Heaven and its Reprise.

The only thing that stays the same is a black person becomes a nun. Otherwise, anything enjoyable in the film wasn't kept for the musical. It's a completely different story, concept, setting, etc.

The setting was moved back a couple of decades (for no other discernible reason than to feature a 70s flavor in the score), but the basic story is the same. It was padded a teensy bit in ways that didn't really make much sense or weren't fleshed out, but the story is not a completely different. In fact, it is almost exactly the same.

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The Best Of My Love! Thanks, Lady.

I also think it's a little silly that all of the sudden the nuns sound great, but I went with it. I mean that's the story.

Plus, Raise Your Voice is such a fun number!

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Someone commented to me as well about the whole notion of the nuns all of a sudden being able to sing in Rase Your Voice. And, My thought was, isn't it okay ofr a musical to have a song that shows a lengthy amount of time pass through the course of one song?

I didn't see a plot whole with them using one song to show something that happened over the course of several scenes in the movie.

Also, with regards to the rights of the music. I was under the impression that all of the music was owned and copyright by Motown and they didn't give the OK to use their songs in the show.

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I saw Sister Act a few months ago and thought the score was definitely its strongest asset. Menken did a good job of having disco pastiche while also creating some good original melodies. I also thought most of Slater's lyrics were pretty clever; "When I Find My Baby" felt like a song Menken and Ashman would have written around the time of Little Shop of Horrors. It was nice to have a new Menken show that has some edge to it, though I wish he were doing truly original material instead of allllll of these movie adaptations. That said...fingers crossed for Hunchback in the states.