It’s curtains: ‘Sister Act’ ends run on Broadway
Published: 21 Jun. 2012, 19:01
Producers said Wednesday that the musical based on the 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg will close Aug. 26, ending a 16-month run of more than 561 performances.
“Sister Act’’ opened on Broadway in April 2011 after a stint in London and was nominated for a best musical Tony last year. It has original tunes by songwriter Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater.
The musical’s plot is faithful to the movie: A nightclub singer accidentally witnesses a murder by her crime boss lover and flees to a convent to hide. The stuffy nuns come alive as she teaches them rhythm while she learns the value of sisterhood and self-sacrifice.
Former “The Cosby Show’’ star Raven-Symone is appearing as the nightclub-singer-turned-nun Deloris Van Cartier, having taken over the part from Patina Miller, who earned a Tony Award nomination.
The show took in $665,744 in eight performances last week, less than half its $1.5 million potential. The 1,755-seat Broadway Theatre where the show plays was about 66 percent full.
A North American tour kicks off Oct. 2 in Toronto. It also has productions playing in Hamburg and Vienna, and touring the United Kingdom.
There are upcoming productions scheduled in Paris in September, Stuttgart in December and Scheveningen, Holland, in March. Plans also are in the works for “Sister Act’’ productions in Moscow, Madrid, Prague, Sao Paolo, South Korea and Japan.
After a flurry of religious-themed shows appeared on Broadway, crowds are apparently turning their backs, unconverted. “Leap of Faith,’’ another Menken show about a crooked preacher, closed last month after just 20 regular performances.
AP
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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