Curtain falls on ‘Nunsense’ Sunday

Sonoma Arts Live inaugural production, Dan Goggin’s “Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version,” continues through May 3, in Andrews Hall at the Sonoma Community Center.

The idea for the original “Nunsense” began as a line of greeting cards produced and written by Dan Goggin.

He expanded the concept into a cabaret, which ran for 38 weeks in New York City, and eventually into a full-length musical.

The mega-musical version stars the original five nuns along with five new (male and female) characters, including the never-before-seen infamous convent cook, Sister Julia, Child of God. 

Five of the 19 surviving Little Sisters of Hoboken, a one-time mission that ran a leper colony on an island south of France, discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, has accidentally killed the other 52 residents of the convent with her tainted vischychoise, while the other nuns were off playing bingo with a group of Maryknolls.

Mother Superior has a vision in which she is told to start a greeting card company to raise funds for the burials, but the enterprise falls a bit short of its goal.

Comedy ensues as the nuns present a variety show to cover the cost of burial for the nuns not yet laid to rest. 

Cast members include Abby Chambers, Jerome Sadhu Jr., Sue Martin, Cat Smith, Susan Lee, Nora Summers, Julia Holsworth, Tessa Hope Morgan, Paul Shafer, Devin Muller and RoyAnne Florence.

Tickets for this award-winning show are available through the Sonoma Arts Box office at sonomaartslive.org or call 974-1931. Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

Performances are on the Rotary Stage in Andrews Hall, Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St., in Sonoma.

All proceeds for this run are being donated by J Love Productions to Sonoma Arts Live. 

For additional information, visit sonomaartslive.org.