Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...

[mywonderwa11]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#1

Posted: 1/14/11 at 11:33am

Victoria Clark.

I searched, but didn't see this posted yet. The principals started rehearsals this week. Also, Marla Mindelle is Sister Mary Robert.

I'm so stoked for this show.

"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"

[ljay889]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#2

Posted: 1/14/11 at 11:35am

Well that's bizarre casting.....

[ljay889]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#2

Posted: 1/14/11 at 12:21pm

Nobody else cares? The idea is warming up to me. It's just not a role that I had imagined Clark in.
I had a pipe-dream that it would be Angela Lansbury.

[winston89]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#3

Posted: 1/14/11 at 12:23pm

As bizarre as it may be I am still looking foward to this show a little more now. Her rendition of Here Within These Walls is going to be terrific.

"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear" Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll

[theaterdrew]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#4

Posted: 1/14/11 at 12:28pm

I can see it. But why hasn't the full cast been announced? Who are the rest of the principals (besides those two and Patina)?

[mallardo]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#5

Posted: 1/14/11 at 12:28pm

What on earth is bizarre about it? Victoria Clark is perfect. She can be funny and she has one of the great voices on the planet. The Mother Superior has a couple of very nice songs and it will be amazing to hear her sing them. It's fabulous casting.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

[mattywhits]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#6

Posted: 1/14/11 at 12:50pm

I think she'll be WONDERFUL and I'm so glad to have her back on Broadway. I'm pretty excited for this show...and I hope the search for Sister Mary Lazarus has gone well. Any news on that?

[tazber]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#7

Posted: 1/14/11 at 12:53pm

I think it's great casting! I'm surprised she took the role, but I'm delighted.

....but the world goes 'round

[Smaxie]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#8

Posted: 1/14/11 at 1:07pm

She's great in everything. Equally adept at musical comedy as she is with refined musical drama. Great belt and a soaring head voice. She was a great Adelaide replacement in Guys & Dolls. I thought she was the only one in '60s musical comedy mode when she played Smitty in the 1995 How to Succeed. She was lovely and memorable in Titanic. Broad, funny and sang the hell out of her especially blowsy Pennywise in Urinetown. And then, great, of course, in Light in the Piazza.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#9

Posted: 1/14/11 at 1:10pm

This is exciting! Her performance in PIAZZA is one I'll never forget. Brilliant in every way. I am really pumped for this show! I hope Douglas Carter Beane improves the book, which I heard was the show's biggest problem by far. If anyone can inject some genuine heart and humor into a show, it's him.

[singtopher]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#10

Posted: 1/14/11 at 4:00pm

I'm not convinced the show is completely cast. There will still having auditions this past week.

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

[ljay889]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#11

Posted: 1/14/11 at 5:37pm

I love Victoria clark. The idea was just a bit jarring at first because she's not exactly in the Maggie Smith and Sheila Hancock mold. I can't wait to see what she does with the role.

[adamgreer]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#12

Posted: 1/14/11 at 6:16pm

I'm not entirely sure how true this information is...

[B3TA07]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#13

Posted: 1/14/11 at 6:30pm

"I had a pipe-dream that it would be Angela Lansbury."

gurl

-Benjamin
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[Mattbrain]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#14

Posted: 1/14/11 at 10:30pm

Wow...didn't see this coming but I definitely approve! I adored her in Piazza!

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[Bettyboy72]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#15

Posted: 1/14/11 at 10:56pm

I wanted Mary Testa!!!!

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[BroadwayBound115]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#16

Posted: 1/14/11 at 11:14pm

I would love to see Elaine Stritch as Sister Mary Lazarus.

[Blockhead24]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#17

Posted: 1/14/11 at 11:20pm

I'll believe it when I see it

[mywonderwa11]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#18

Posted: 1/15/11 at 9:39am

Well, believe it...she's in rehearsals right now :)

"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"

[everythingtaboo]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#19

Posted: 1/15/11 at 9:44am

Right now? Like this morning?

Love Victoria, but if true, it wouldn't have been my first choice, only because it'll be a different dynamic than Sheila Hancock brought to it.

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

Updated On: 1/15/11 at 09:44 AM

[jamiekennywicked]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#20

Posted: 1/15/11 at 10:51am

Can I ask where you got this info?

''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter

[CurtainPullDowner]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#21

Posted: 1/15/11 at 2:57pm

Did the character Marla is playing have a song in London?
She's great, good break for her.

[ljay889]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#22

Posted: 1/15/11 at 3:39pm

^ Yes. She has a beautiful solo called "The Life I Never Led" - and a reprise of it.

[bwaylvsong]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#23

Posted: 1/15/11 at 4:02pm

Both phenomenal singing actresses!!!! This show just shot wayyyyy up on my "to see" list.

[mywonderwa11]

Sister Act casting...and Mother Superior is...#24

Posted: 1/16/11 at 2:41am

I have friends in the show. The principals are rehearsing now and the rest of the cast start rehearsals February 1st.

"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"

Updated On: 1/16/11 at 02:41 AM