North East ready to get into the Habit

West End hit Sister Act is due to hit Newcastle as part of it’s first ever UK tour, so get into the Habit, enter the Sisterhood and see it at Newcastle Theatre Royal 14 – 25 August!

Produced in partnership with Whoopi Goldberg who starred in the 1992 blockbuster movie on which the show is based, Sister Act is a heavenly concoction of ‘high-spirited’ comedy and Motown soul hits.

It tells the story of disco diva Deloris Van Cartier who is put in protective custody after she witnesses a murder, and hides away in the one place the cops are sure she won’t be found – a convent! Disguised as a nun she quickly finds fans amongst her fellow ‘sisters’ but makes the wrong impression on the convent’s strict Mother Superior. When she turns her attention to the convent’s off-key choir, helping the nuns to find their true voices and breathing new life into the rundown neighbourhood, her cover could be blown for good. But the gang may just have underestimated the true power of the heavenly Sisterhood!

The show, which played to over a million people during its West End run and is currently a huge hit on Broadway, stars Coronation Street’s Denise Black as Mother Superior, and Brookside and The Royal favourite Michael Starke as Monsignor O’Hara, with rising new star Cynthia Erivo as nun on the run Deloris.