Sister Act

You couldn't help liking Sister Act.............wisecracking Nuns, a sardonic Mother Superior and a plot line that wouldn't tax a five year old; this " new" musical fashioned from the 1990s film is the froth on top of a milkshake.....it is pure rubbish of course and slightly disappointingly different from the movie, which seemed to concentrate more on the "journey" made by the dreadfully dull Los Angeles inner city choir than the huge, glittery habit shimmering group numbers we now have on stage.
I must admit I did prefer the more uptempo hymns of the film rather than the Disney-esque libretto of the musical but there was plenty else to enjoy on the way.
Patina Miller stands her own against Whoopie Goldberg's original Deloris Van Cartier- the lounge singer who is hidden by the police in an inner city convent and is a true star in the making, but it is the mischievous performance by an aging Julia Sutton (who plays the Mary Wicks role from the film) that almost steals the show.
At the end the audience was standing and cheering for the wonderfully exciting and innovative staging spectacle and when when the Pope rises slowly from the orchestra pit to salute the singing nuns the place went wild...........it is at that stage there is only one thing to do, and that is to sit back laugh and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!