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Nunsense | |
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Music | Dan Goggin |
Lyrics | Dan Goggin |
Book | Dan Goggin |
Productions | 1985 Off-Broadway Productions worldwide |
Nunsense (1985) is a musical comedy with a book, music, and lyrics by Dan Goggin. Originating as a line of greeting cards, Goggin expanded the concept into a cabaret show that ran for 38 weeks, and eventually into a full-length musical. The original Off-Broadway production opened December 12, 1985, running for 3,672 performances and becoming the second-longest-running Off-Broadway show in history. The show has since been adapted for television, starring Rue McClanahan, and has spawned six sequels and three spin-offs.
History[edit]
The Nunsense concept originated as a line of greeting cards featuring a nun offering tart quips with a clerical slant. The cards caught on so quickly that Goggin decided to expand the concept into a cabaret show called The Nunsense Story, which opened for a four-day run at Manhattan's Duplex and remained for 38 weeks, encouraging its creator to expand it into a full-length theater production.
The original production of Nunsense, directed by Goggin, opened on December 12, 1985 at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre, moving to the Douglas Fairbanks Theater for the majority of its ten-year run. It ran for 3,672 performances, becoming the second-longest running Off-Broadway show in history (after The Fantasticks). By the time it closed, it had become an international phenomenon translated into at least 26 languages with more than 8,000 productions worldwide.[1] It has grossed over $500 million worldwide,[2] and more than 25,000 women have played in Nunsense productions worldwide, including Edie Adams, Maxine Audley, Kaye Ballard, Honor Blackman, Pat Carroll, Peggy Cass, Phyllis Diller, Sally Struthers, Louise Gold, Maggie Fitzhugh and JoAnne Worley.[3] The five-woman production won four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including best Off-Broadway musical, best book and best music. A 1985 London cast recording was made, as well as a 1986 recording with the off-Broadway cast. The show opened on London's West End at the Fortune Theatre in March 1987.
Goggin adapted both Nunsense and Nunsense 2 for television productions with Rue McClanahan as the mother superior. Also starring in this version were Terri White as Sister Mary Hubert, Semina DeLaurentis as Sister Mary Amnesia, Christine Anderson as Sister Robert Anne and Christine Toy as Sister Mary Leo. The show and its sequels are popular choices of community theater and summer stock theatre troupes. In 2004, the '20th Anniversary All-Star Tour' of the show starred Kaye Ballard as Sister Mary Regina, Georgia Engel as Sister Mary Leo, Mimi Hines as Sister Mary Amnesia, Darlene Love as Sister Mary Hubert, and Lee Meriwether as Sister Robert Anne.
Synopsis[edit]
Five of the 19 surviving Little Sisters of Hoboken, a one-time missionary order that ran a leper colony on an island south of France, discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, accidentally killed the other fifty-two residents of the convent with her tainted vichyssoise while they were off playing bingo with a group of Maryknolls. Upon discovering the disaster, Mother Superior had a vision in which she was told to start a greeting card company to raise funds for the burials. The greeting cards were an enormous success and, thinking there was plenty of money, the Reverend Mother bought a VCR and camcorder for the convent, leaving her with no money in the kitty to pay for the last four burials. With the deceased nuns on ice in the deep freeze, they decide to stage a variety show in the Mount Saint Helen's School auditorium to raise the necessary amount. Participating in the project are Mother Superior Mary Regina, a former circus performer who can not resist the spotlight; her competitive but dignified rival, second-in-command Sister Mary Hubert; Sister Robert Anne, a streetwise nun from Brooklyn; Sister Mary Leo, a novice who is determined to be the world's first ballerina nun; and wacky, childlike Sister Mary Amnesia, who lost her memory when a crucifix fell on her head. The entertainment that they present includes solo star turns, madcap dance routines, and an audiencequiz.
Naturally, VCRs and camcorders are now no longer such current or expensive devices, so modern presentations of the show tend to substitute newer or more generic terms such as 'home entertainment system' or a 'plasma TV'.
Act 1[edit]
Mother Superior opens the show by greeting the audience and apologizing for their set constraints (the middle school still has the set for 'Grease' up), and the five nuns introduce themselves in the opening number ('Nunsense is Habit-Forming'). The Sisters then explain in song how they got where they are today, originally working in a leper colony near France, but quickly leaving after some of the Sisters developed leprosy themselves ('A Difficult Transition'), and after the song, Sister Amnesia quizzes the audience on it. Sister Mary Leo then performs a dance interpretation of morning at the convent (Benedicite), but starts to get too flamboyant, and is stopped by Sister Mary Hubert, who reminds her 'The Biggest Ain't The Best'. Reverend Mother comes back on stage, only to be stopped by Sister Robert Anne, who pleads with her to let her sing a solo. Reverend Mother refuses, reminding Robert Anne she is only the understudy, prompting Robert Anne to launch into a song about just that ('Playing Second Fiddle').
Mary Amnesia comes on next and sings a song about what it's like to be a nun, along with a foul-mouthed puppet, Sister Mary Annette ('So You Want To Be A Nun'). Reverend Mother returns and apologizes, but is shocked to hear from Mary Amnesia that the Jersey Board of Health has sent an inspector to the convent just that afternoon. Amnesia runs off crying, and the rest of the Sisters follow, except for Reverend Mother. She tells the audience how she became a nun, but still somewhat misses performing ('Turn Up the Spotlight'). Amnesia, Leo, and Hubert return, and learn that a local Jewish temple has sent them flowers wishing them good luck. They try to use the flowers to remind Amnesia of her past, but all she can get is a quick flashback ('Lilacs'). Robert Anne rushes on stage to give Reverend Mother a bag that she seems troubled about, claiming she found it in one of the girls' bathrooms. Reverend Mother dismisses the rest of the Sisters, and has a look in the bag, the contents of which ultimately get her high - hilariously so. The rest of the Sisters notice, and put on a hastily thrown-together tap number to close the first act and get her off the stage ('Tackle That Temptation').
Act 2[edit]
Robert Anne opens the second act, overjoyed at being able to finally take a starring role. She sings a slow ballad about how church has changed since she was a little girl ('Growing Up Catholic'). The rest of the nuns rush on afterwards, led by an especially distraught Reverend Mother, who has received a summons from the Board of Health that 'We've Got to Clean Out the Freezer'. Reverend Mother is calmed down by Mary Hubert, who reminds her that they've got to stick together in times of crisis like this ('Just a Coupl'a Sisters'). Mary Leo and Robert Anne then perform 'The Dying Nun Ballet', which the Reverend Mother does not receive well. Amnesia and Hubert return with Sister Julia, Child of God's cookbook and put on a short cooking show segment, which is interrupted by the fact that the book is full of misprints and innuendos. Reverend Mother finally gives in and lets Robert Anne sing her number, 'I Just Want to Be a Star'.
Amnesia, Robert Anne, and Leo then perform an Andrews Sisters-type number ('The Drive-In'), then show a 'homemade convent film display', which is shut off by Reverend Mother after it shows embarrassing clips of her. Amnesia remains on stage after the rest leave, and decides to tell the audience a story about who she would be if she wasn't a nun ('I Could've Gone to Nashville'). Mid-song, everything comes back to her and she remembers her real name - Sister Mary Paul - and her past. She was going to be a famous country singer, but chose the convent instead. She tells the rest of the sisters, who realize that Sister Mary Paul is also the name of the nun who just won the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes, and rejoice, thanking God for their good fortune. Sister Hubert closes the show with a rousing gospel number about what it takes to become a saint ('Holier Than Thou').
Songs[edit]
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Sequels[edit]
The show's astounding success prompted six sequels. The first, Nunsense 2: The Second Coming, takes place six weeks after the sisters have staged their first benefit. This time the grateful nuns are presenting a show to thank all the people who supported them in their freshman outing, but chaos erupts when two Franciscans come to claim Sister Mary Amnesia—who has won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes—as one of their own, and the nuns learn a talent scout is in the audience to see them strut their stuff. An audience-participation bingo game is only one of the show's many highlights.
The second, Sister Amnesia's Country Western Nunsense Jamboree, is presented as a stop on the promotional tour for the nun's new album, I Could've Gone to Nashville, released after she regained her memory and discovered she really was Sister Mary Paul, a former country singer. In this edition the audience participates in a rousing auction.
The third, Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical, a behind-the-scenes look at a holiday television special taped by the sisters for Public-access televisioncable TV in their convent basement studio, culminates in a wild spoof of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet.
In the fourth, Meshuggah-Nuns!, the sisters are on a 'Faiths of All Nations' cruise when the on-board cast of Fiddler on the Roof gets seasick, prompting the ship's captain to ask them to put on a show.
The fifth edition, Nunsensations: The Nunsense Vegas Revue takes the sisters to the Nevada gambling mecca when a parishioner offers them $10,000 to perform in a club. After being convinced 'what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas', the Reverend Mother agrees, and before long the nuns are clad in feathers and sequins and wowing the crowd at the Pump Room in the Mystique Motor Lodge.
The sixth, and newest edition, Nunset Boulevard, premiered in November 2009, at Minnesota's Chanhassen Dinner Theatres [2]. The Little Sisters of Hoboken have been invited to sing at the Hollywood Bowl. They are thrilled at the prospect until they arrive and realize they're booked into the Hollywood Bowl-erama - a bowling alley with a cabaret lounge - and not the famed 'Bowl' they’d anticipated. In trying to present their all new variety show, the sisters have to contend with announcements from the bowling alley public address system as well as the activity on the lanes. Someone gets wind of the fact that a movie producer is across the street auditioning for roles in a new movie musical. The sisters race off to audition during their show's intermission!
Besides the original production, cast recordings of the first three sequels and a London production were released.[3]
Spin-offs[edit]
In addition to the above sequels are three spin-off shows.
Since 1995 a German adaptation under the German title 'Non(n)sens' was staged by Benjamin Baumann in the city of Hanau. Within 15 years it attracted more than 120.000 visitors in a total of 544 plays.[4]
Nunsense A-Men, the original show with all the characters portrayed by men in drag, was staged in Brazil as Novicas Rebeldes before transferring to New York City in 1998. It was premiered in Buenos Aires as 'Suspiros de monja', in 2000.[4]
A new version named Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version is a remake of the original featuring additional songs, lines, and characters.
Sister Robert Anne's Cabaret Class opened at the Playhouse on the Green in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and was an enormous hit. Deborah Del Mastro starred as Sister Robert Anne, with musical direction by Leo P. Carusone. The 'One-Nun-sense Musical' featured songs introduced by Sister Robert Anne from the many previous 'Nunsense' shows, but also included two new songs from 'Nunset Boulevard.' Approaching the audience as a class of students interested in creating their own cabaret act, the premise allowed for much audience interaction, and as in all the 'Nunsense' shows, much humor.
In 2008, the Brazilian singer Xuxa (pronounced Shoo Sha) did a Christmas special based on Nunsense, with the name Xuxa E As Noviças (English: Xuxa and the novices). All the songs were translated from Nunsense (except 'Amém' (Amen) and 'Lua de Cristal'). The story is also based on Nunsense. It had Xuxa, Rosa Marya Colin, Sylvia Massari, Marília Pêra and Fafy Siqueira in cast.
Home video[edit]
Originally released as a set containing Nunsense and Nunsense 2: The Sequel, Acorn Media released them as a two-VHS set. Imagine Ent. re-released Nunsense to DVD in 1998 and Nunsense 2: The Sequel in 2000. Nunsense 3 - The Jamboree in 2003. Nunsensations: The Nunsense Vegas Revue in 2007. Meshuggah-Nuns! in 2010. On June 25, 2013 a four-disc DVD collection was released by SRO, featuring Nunsense, Nunsense 2, The Jamboree and Nuncrackers.
Notes[edit]
- ^Nunsense A-Men cdbaby.com, accessed November 18, 2016
- ^[1] travellady.com
- ^' 'Nunsense' is Delight' bucsgameday.com
- ^'Nunsense - benjaminbaumann.de'. benjaminbaumann.de. Retrieved 2016-12-25. german
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Nunsense on IMDb
- Nunsense 2: The Sequel on IMDb
The New York Times - 5/12/96
-Alvin Klein
Nuns Who Make People Laugh
Why should Dan Goggin care about the condescenders who say no to “Nunsense'? Or more precisely, 'The Nunsenses” – I, II and III? As the creator of the wildly popular song and dance show and its spinoffs, he’s made millions and he's made millions laugh. Indeed, Mr. Goggin is the epitome of the winner who laughs last – all the way to the bank, as the old saw goes – knowing in his heart that he’s lifted the human spirit and rescued theaters from bankruptcy.
No kidding. 'We’ve saved 12 theaters across the country. They have beckoned and we have come,” Mr. Goggin said, not counting Seven Angels in Waterbury where “Nunsense” makes predictably periodic appearances, not so much to prevent the place from shutting down as to guarantee that it will remain open.
And that's as it should be. After all, Seven Angels, regarded by many as the least known among Connecticut's professional theaters, was founded by Semina De Laurentis in her home town six years ago.
Ms. De Laurentis was the original Sister Mary Amnesia in the 1985 Off Broadway production of “Nunsense,' a musical revue devoted to nuns who cut up, do stand-up and other strange things, and who just want to break into show business.
In the show, it is all precipitated by a fund-raising event for the burial of 4 nuns out of 52 who died of botulism after gulping vichyssoise prepared by Sister Julia Child of God. Forty eight nuns had a proper burial but money ran out because the Mother Superior went over budget on a VCR. Hence, the benefit – and it’s a rush act because the remaining dead sisters are in the freezer and the health inspector is on the way.
The original “Nunsense” production, which evolved from a cabaret show in Greenwich Village. had its run extended from four nights to 38 weeks, cost $150,000 ($2.6 million has been paid to 25 investors so far, Mr. Goggin said) and spawned more than 5,000 stagings in 26 languages 'in every country in the world, including Japan, but not in China or in Russia,” Mr. Goggin said. 'India is coming up.”
The Off Broadway run lasted 10 years, its final year given over to alternating performances of “Nunsense' and its sequel, 'Nunsense II,” which has itself grossed $20 million worldwide over the last two years.
“Nunsense” has played in theaters ranging from 199 seats (the Douglas Fairbanks Theater in Manhattan) to 4,800 seats in West Point where the box office take was $75,000 for one performance. The national tour had its highest grossing week – $367,000 - at the Bushnell in Hartford in 1990. Thus, when Ms. De Laurentis opened Seven Angels, “Nunsense” was the preordained opener, even though Ms. De Laurentis said she was “striving to establish a true bona fide regional theater of quality.”
Since then, Seven Angels has produced other small popular revues and a smattering of serious new plays, most notably “The Crimson Thread,” by Mary Hanes, 'Twice Blessed” by Art Metrano and Cynthia Lee, and “Before You Go,” by Jim McGinn. 'And Nunsense I or II, weaving in and out,” Ms. De Laurentis remarked.
And now it’s 'Nonsense III,” otherwise known as “Sister Amnesia’s Country Western Nunsense Jamboree,” which opened on April 11 in Waterbury, where its run has been extended through June 9. After a three-week hiatus, when the show and the set move to Montclair, N.J., ”Nunsense III' is to return to Connecticut for a summer's run.
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In its latest incarnation, Sister Mary Amnesia (Ms. De Laurentis, once more) is on a promotional tour for her new country western album, 'I Could Have Gone to Nashville.”
'It’s a cross between ‘Lagh-In’ 'Hee Haw' and ‘Grand Ol' Opry.’ Real high energy – with 25 new songs,” Mr. Goggin said. 'We have a stable, a chicken coop, a country fiddling nun, two new characters and the band is in the barn.” Mother Superior couldn't attend, but she’s keeping tabs on everything by phone – and Mr. Goggin added, “We’re lucky to have Rue McClanahan's voice on tape.
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Yes, but what about overkill? His own mother, who lives in Michigan recently asked. “You don’t care if I don’t see it this time, do you?'
'I think overkill all the time,” Mr. Goggin said. “What if they don’t want it next year? What if it runs itself out? But people say it never will. They're going to like it forever. And now theaters are starting to do ‘Nunsense I’ again.”
And then there are the Nunsense groupies. “One night in Waterbury, a group said, ‘This is our ninth time’,” Mr. Goggin said. “It never ceases to amaze me,'
Speaking from his home in Garrison, N.Y. – the “house that Nunsense bought” – he said, “We once got a letter about 102 sisters from an order in Canada who were in the hospital after salmonella poisoning, so life is imitating art, not that we call 'Nunsense’ art, It’s just total light-hearted entertainment.”
He went on: “Every night somewhere, someone is laughing during 'Nunsense' and people tell us, ‘You have brought this gift to us.’ Pat Carroll keeps coming back to the role of Mother Superior in one production or another, saying, ‘I need my Nunsense fix.'*
'Nothing compares to hearing people laugh,” Mr. Goggin continued, “And then maybe they’ll come back to the theater. The show is so user friendly – silly corny lunacy – when you’re laughing, even if it’s only for 30 seconds, you’re not hurting, you’re not homeless, you’re just laughing.”
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And a slew of actresses are members of the 'Nunsense” performing pool: Alice Ghostley, Dody Goodman, Phyllis Diller, Peggy Cass, Pudgy, Kaye Ballard and Lainie Kazan among them.
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'Some people think it’s fluff and worthless,' Mr. Goggin said, 'it is fluff but it ain't worthless.”
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“Because of ‘Nunsense’,' Ms. De Laurentis said, 'we see people developing as theatergoers. These shows are bringing them in,” She emphasized how the formulaic can pave the way for the brave new work.
“Someone said if you survive five years, you’re on your way,' she said. 'The other years have been difficult but this one has been successful. We’ve tripled our subscription base – from 500 to 1,500 in one season,”
Ms. De Laurentis continued: “I entered this naively – just loving theater and thinking I could do something wonderful in Waterbury. This is an industrial town that lost its industry – it was the brass center of the world – and it’s finding its way again. I had no idea what this all meant.”
“What has it all meant?*’ Ms. De Laurentis was asked.
'That it was all meant to be,' she answered.