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"From the outset David Villiers laugh a minute production was clearly going to be a fun packed evening.
The audience were greeted and seated by the five sisters of the cast already in their more than convincing characters.
The five ladies of the cloth were played exceptionally well by
Monica Brown, Catherine Hawtin, Chloe Kempton, Charlie Marshall and Vicky Rogers.
So convincing and hilarious were they it is almost impossible to single anybody out,
although I loved Charlie Marshall's Sister Amnesia who arguably gets the lions share of the funny lines.
The ventriloquist act also had us all in stitches.
Michael Hinton led the small ensemble from the piano, providing a full and rich backing to the musical numbers
which were wonderfully delivered with some fine harmony work.
It is refreshing to see a company have this much fun with a show and pull off such a professional standard
production without the curse of taking themselves too seriously, which is the unfortunate blight of some other
groups in the area."
NODA review
Yes, the 'Habit-forming' Musical Comedy was performed at
Ditchling Village Hall Thursday 28th - Saturday 30th July 2005
Stared
MONICA BROWN
CATHERINE HAWTIN
CHLOE KEMPTON
CHARLIE MARSHALL
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VICKY ROGERS
This talented cast will be donning their habits, and showing off talents that include ventriloquism, ballet, habit humour (convent impressionism), and of course tap dancing. You will witness the sisters' own version of 'Ready, Steady, Cook', as well as the Convent's answer to the Andrew's Sisters, so can you really afford to miss out?!
For those of you who don't know the set up for this hilarious show, lets tell you a little bit about it:
The Little Sisters of Hoboken operate Mount Saint Helen's School in Hoboken, new Jersey.
Originally founded as a missionary order, they started out running a leper colony on an island south of France.
Forced to leave the island when they lost control to a group of Protestant competitors, they returned to Hoboken.
They went unnoticed until one day their cook, Sister Julia -- Child of God,
unwittingly served some tainted vichyssoise soup and 52 sisters died of botulism.
Fortunately a few of the sisters were off playing bingo with some Maryknolls and so were spared.
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 of the 52. The greeting cards were an enormous success and
thinking there was plenty of money, Reverend Mother bought a VCR for the convent.
When she realized there was only enough money left to bury 48, she decided to stage a talent show to
raise the money to bury the last four sisters who were put on ice in the convent deep freeze.
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