ANNOUNCING THE CAST OF THE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR OF
PRESENTED BY DALLAS SUMMER MUSICALS AT THE MUSIC
HALL AT FAIR PARK JUNE 4-16
Dallas, TX…The North American Tour of SISTER
ACT will star Ta’Rea Campbell (Book of
Mormon, The Lion King) as Deloris Van Cartier,
Hollis Resnik (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Les
Miserables) as Mother Superior, Kingsley Leggs
(Sister Act, The Color Purple) as Curtis Jackson,
E. Clayton Cornelious (Wonderland, The
Scottsboro Boys) as Eddie Souther, Lael Van
Keuren (Sister Act) as Mary Robert,
Florrie Bagel as Mary Patrick, Diane J. Findlay
(42nd Street, Promises, Promises) as
Mary Lazarus, Todd A. Horman (Priscilla Queen
of the Desert) as Joey, Ernie Pruneda
(Sister Act) as Pablo, Charles Barksdale
(Fat Camp) as TJ, and Richard Pruitt (42nd
Street, White Christmas) as Monsignor O’Hara.
The company will also include Melvin Abston, Brian
Calì, Alysha Deslorieux, Karen Elliott, Danny George,
Blair Goldberg, Erin Henry, Wendy James, Trisha Jeffrey,
Mary Jo McConnell, Ashley Moniz, Michelle Rombola, Jason
Simon, Angie Marie Smith, Tricia Tanguy, Kelly E.
Waters, and Dashaun Young.
Single tickets, priced from $15-$85, are on sale now
at The Box Office, 5959 Preston Royal Shopping Center in
Dallas, or any Ticketmaster location; or online at
www.ticketmaster.com. For groups of 10 or
more, call 214-426-GROUP (4768).
“To hear people laugh and cheer the way they do at
SISTER ACT — a show people think they
know but are pleasantly surprised to discover is not
what they were expecting — is a magical experience for a
producer,” says Producer Whoopi Goldberg.
“Happily, audiences across the country will be able to
get in on the fun when Deloris and her fabulous sisters
start spreading the love nationwide.”
SISTER ACT received five 2011 Tony®
Award nominations: BEST MUSICAL, BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
(Alan Menken (music)/ Glenn Slater (lyrics), BEST BOOK
OF A MUSICAL (Cheri & Bill Steinkellner and Douglas
Carter Beane), BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL (Patina Miller)
and BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL (Victoria Clark).
SISTER ACT features an original
score with music by multi-Academy, Grammy, Tony and
Golden Globe Award-winning composer Alan Menken (Little
Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, The Little
Mermaid and Enchanted), lyrics by Tony and
Academy Award-nominee Glenn Slater (The Little
Mermaid), and a book by multi-Emmy Award winners
Cheri and Bill Steinkellner (“Cheers”) with
additional book material by Tony and Olivier Award
nominee Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu, The
Little Dog Laughed). Directed on Broadway by
four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks (Guys
and Dolls, A Funny Thing…Forum, Smokey Joe’s Café),
the production features choreography by Tony and Olivier
Award nominee Anthony Van Laast (Mamma Mia,
Bombay Dreams) and is based on the Touchstone
Pictures motion picture Sister Act written by
Joseph Howard.
SISTER ACT opened on April 20, 2011 at
the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway) to rave reviews.
Elisabeth Vincentelli of The New York Post calls
SISTER ACT, “One of the season’s happiest
surprises! Off the charts and packed with goodies, to
which we say: Amen!” Joe Dziemianowicz of The New
York Daily News raves “A blessed event has landed
on Broadway. Sister Act is a feel-good crowd
pleaser worth celebrating. It keeps on purring from one
happy moment to the next.” Charles Isherwood
of The New York Times says, “When the wimples
start quivering and the nuns start rocking to raise the
Gothic rafters, all’s right in the kingdom of musical
comedy!” and Mark Kennedy of The Associated Press
calls SISTER ACT, “In a word,
divine. This is a musical that hits all the right spots,
achieving something close to Broadway grace. It will
convert you.”
When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a
murder, she is put in protective custody in the one
place cops are sure she won’t be found – a convent!
Disguised as a nun, she finds herself at odds with both
the rigid lifestyle and an uptight Mother Superior.
Using her fabulous disco-ness and killer voice to
inspire the choir, Deloris breathes new life into the
church, but in doing so blows her cover. Soon it’s
nun-on-the-run time but she finds salvation in the
heavenly power of her newly found sisterhood.
Based on the mega-hit feature film, SISTER ACT
features an original Alan Menken/Glenn Slater score with
a vast inspiration of musical styles from Motown, soul
and funk to great big disco anthems and Barry White
inspired musical comedy.
SISTER ACT features scenery by Klara
Zieglerova, costumes by Lez Brotherston, lighting
by Natasha Katz, sound by Ken Travis and hair/wig
designs by David Brian Brown. The music department
includes Musical Supervisor Michael Kosarin, Music
Director Brent-Alan Huffman, and orchestrations by Doug
Besterman. Casting is by Telsey + Company, Craig Burns
CSA. For more information, visit
www.sisteractontour.com.
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