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Playhouse gets back in the habit of live performances with Nunsense
Special to The Oak Ridger
Intermission is over!
After a 16-month hiatus from live performances, the Oak Ridge Playhouse is ready to open its doors again with a production of the funny, nunny musical comedy “Nunsense, opening Saturday, July 31.
“The pandemic put live entertainment on hold for organizations all over the world,” Playhouse Executive Artistic Director Reggie Law stated in a news release. “We chose to look at it as a long intermission. But, now that it is over, we’re getting back in the habit quite literally with “Nunsense, of producing live shows.
Auditions set for Elgin Summer Theatre s Nunsense show
Posted5/13/2021 5:39 PM
The Hemmens Cultural Center and Up and Coming Theatre Company are happy to announce that Elgin Summer Theatre will present an outdoor version of the hit comedy, Nunsense, this summer. Performances will take place July 9-11 and 16-18 at the Wing Park Band Shell in Elgin.
The EST production of In the Heights has been rescheduled to summer 2022.
Nunsense is an audience interactive show that EST is excited to bring to an outdoor setting. The fresh air and ample space of Wing Park will be home to the Little Sisters of Hoboken this summer. Join the Sisters as they put on a variety show! Come meet Reverend Mother Regina, a former circus performer; Sister Mary Hubert, the Mistress of Novices; a street-wise nun from Brooklyn named Sister Robert Anne; Sister Mary Leo, a novice who is a wannabe ballerina; and the delightfully wacky Sister Mary Amnesia, the nun who lost her memory
Chyrel Miller, director of Springfield Little Theatre s new production of Nunsense.
This is actually the fourth “Nunsense” at LT, Miller said. “We’ve done it twice before as ‘Nunsense,’ and then the third time it was done as one of the takeoffs of ‘Nunsense.’ But this one is going back to the original writing of ‘Nunsense,’ which actually was created in 1953!” (So says Dan Goggin, who created the “current” version of the show in 1985, which has logged more than 5000 performances worldwide.)
Referring to ‘Nunsense’ as a “cabaret show” should be a hint that it’s not your standard “book” or “storyline” musical. It’s the story of five nuns in Hoboken, New Jersey their order is called “The Little Sisters of Hoboken” who put on a variety show at Mount. St. Helens High School as a fundraiser. “to help them bury the last four dead sisters that are stuck in the freezer because Mother Superior spent the rest of their money on a 3D HD te