Whoopi Goldberg puts on her cassock again

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

American movie star Whoopi Goldberg put on her cassock again. The actress returned to one of her most beloved images - the nun from the comedy "Act, Sister!" With the only slight difference that this time the action takes place not on the screen, but on the stage, and Whoopi plays not the unlucky singer Deloris, but the Mother Superior.

Musical "Sister Act!" The famous composer Alan Menken wrote based on the 1992 film of the same name, which tells the story of an unlucky singer turning the convent upside down, where she was hidden as an important witness.

Alan Menken is the author of music for such wonderful films as "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "Pocahontas", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Hercules", "Enchanted", many of which later became Broadway musicals. And the musical "Beauty and the Beast" was also a success in Moscow.

The new musical Sister Act! Staged at London's West End is produced by Whoopi Goldberg herself.

The main stars of the British version of the musical were Patina Miller (Deloris) and the lead singer of the boy group Blue, Simon Webb (Schenk). As for Whoopi, she will only play Mother Superior for the first three weeks. As a result, the Palladium theater is besieged by crowds of fans of the actress who have not managed to get the coveted ticket.

Interestingly, Whoopi Goldberg does not hide his radical social views and openly criticizes the conservative actions of the US administration and the Republican Party, advocating equality of cultures and religions, legalization of same-sex marriage. In 1998, she published a book called "The Book", where, in her usual eccentric manner, she ridicules the hypocrisy of modern society, hiding under the guise of political correctness.

In the spring of 2011, the musical "Act, Sister!" will move to Broadway. Whoopi will have something to laugh at.