'Sister Act- The Musical' -London Palladium 2009 — Page 12

Hi, I was wondering if someone could PM me too! I am so excited for this cast recording!

it's on

Amy booth steel is on for Mary Ptrick tonight and Ali Harding for Lazarus all week. Anyone going?

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The CD is released today.
Lets all rush and buy one!
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Hi, I am new to broadwayworld.com boards, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction to listen to the sister act soundtrack. I saw the show back in the preview stages and thought the score was amazing, especially sung well by Patina.
Thanks

Gotta love Patina!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbbewRSc-C0

Just heard from Alan Menken that the sheet music will be available "early fall". Hurrah!

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I cant believe how much I play this CD- almost every day.

Well, I've finally seen it and I left the theatre on a high. I was expecting the score to be sub-par Menken and so I was well-pleased to find plenty of really effective show tunes in there. I particularly liked the wit in the lyrics of When I Find My Baby and the way that song turns a genre on its head but there are plenty of superb production numbers too.

That doesn't mean to say that the show doesn't have issues but those issues aren't the ones suggested in that ridiculous thread on the other side. The main problem is that the book is underwritten and at times very clunky. Katie Rowley Jones' character is ill-defined and awkward, trying to provide confrontation but only demonstrating that the authors seem to understand little about the nature of Christianity and Catholicism. During the final confrontation scene I was asking myself "Why am I on the edge of my seat when the writing is this bad?" The answer ofcourse is because of the superb cast - Patina Millar entirely deserves all the praise that has been showered upon her - she entirely lives up to her character's claim to fabulousness. I missed Julia Sutton (one of my favourite West End stalwarts) but Shiela Hancock proved that less-is-more bringing subtely and thought to a role that could easily be cliche. The scene where she gets unwillingly swept up into the kick line is hilarious, superb and develops her character in ways that the book fails to do: thank you Anthony Van Laast.

You can also pick up that there were problems with the direction but there was much to laugh at as well: I don't really find nuns that amusing but seeing one of them discretely knee one of the mobsters in the bollocks was hilarious. The sets are very lavish and if you like religous iconography in your musicals you'll have a great time.

But it all comes back to the cast: they really are fabulous baby and they just about took me to heaven even though the book tried to drag me back down.

Updated On: 8/26/09 at 02:42 PM

Saw this delightful show again last night (Bank Holiday Monday).
The entire company were on and they were way on top of the production.
It is so tight and slick it almost bares no resemblance to the second preview I saw way back when. which i thought was terrific even then!
They have gotten rid of that awful shower curtain for the opening with Sheila Hancock now making the opening speech in front of a great new curtain and cherub.
There are lots of new bits and pieces i noticed new from the last time I saw the show. I'm sure there are better costumes etc and new pieces of set?!?
A fantastic night!

The house was, sadly, far from full.
At 6.55pm we had Stalls row J off the centre aisle and there were seats either side of us and all around. The rear stalls was empty and people spread out a lot.

I hope this ticks over until at least next spring/ summer.
So much energy flowing of that stage it just seems a waste to play half empty houses.
The Palladium is a big, big house to full with over 2500 seats every night, eight shows a week.

Updated On: 9/1/09 at 02:03 PM

Its a shame its playing to half empty houses most nights

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The ones who were there had an absolute blast.

Its just plain front tab but is obviously a lot heavier than the first one and now it doesn't billow out over the orchestra pit. It has no decoration, just a purple curtain.