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Nunsensations!

What happens in Vegas... adds up to a hilarious Nunsense show! The Little Sisters of Hoboken take on Las Vegas in the most feather-filled, sequin-studded, fan dancing Nunsense show ever!

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Orchestra Size: Small/Combo

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue takes the sisters on a brand new adventure. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Las Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. What follows is the most feather-filled, sequin-studded, fan dancing Nunsense show ever!

Performing in "The Pump Room" at the Mystique Motor Lodge, the sisters experience "show-biz" like never before. You'll meet Sin-City Sue, find out who's Black and White with Her Money on Red, and try to win a new car with the "Holy Rollers Giant Slot Machine." Taking a line from another show, a critic pointed out, "It's a whole lot funny and a little bit naughty, but there ain't nothin' dirty goin' on!" 

REVIEWS:

"Hits the jackpot...Danny Goggin has done it again!"

Graydon Royce, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A high-energy, uniquely entertaining and praiseworthy comedic romp."

Shawn Stalter, OnStage Blog

"Praise the Lord and pass the sequins! Those crazy Sisters of Hoboken have gone Vegas! Playwright Danny Goggin has hit the jackpot."

Sue Merrell, Grand Rapids Press

"Refreshingly zany...there's not a somber or straitlaced moment in the show."

Dalt Wonk, The Baton Rouge Advocate

"Another serving of Nunsense comfort food! Goggin gets a little naughtier in this show than in previous efforts...and there are more than a few show-biz in-jokes, with pokes at everything from Cirque du Soleil to Cabaret and A Chorus Line. But it’s still family friendly stuff"

Dominic P. Papatola, St. Paul Pioneer Press

"A quintuplet version of the classic vaudeville double-act...The songs are heads above most, with comical new lyrics."

Jack Zink, The Sun-Sentinel

"Heavens, it’s as if vaudeville never died."

Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune



Premiere Production:

Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue is the sixth show in Dan Goggin's series of Nunsense shows.

  • Casting: 2M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

  • SISTER MARY REGINA - the Mother Superior
    SISTER MARY HUBERT - the Mistress of Novices
    SISTER ROBERT ANNE - the streetwise nun from Brooklyn
    SISTER MARY PAUL - known as Sister Amnesia; also the voice of the puppet, Sister Mary Annette
    SISTER MARY LEO - the nun who wants to be a dancer

    ANNOUNCER - male voiceover from offstage
    ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER - non-speaking
  • Name Price
    Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

    1 x Lib-Vocal Book

    $24.00
    Rehearsal Material Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

    6 x Prompt Books / Vocal Parts
    1 x Piano-Conductor's Score

    $250.00 +$75.00/pm
    Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

    1 Reed: Flute, Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone & Alto Saxophone

    1 Percussion: Timpani (two pedal drums), Bells, Chimes, Xylophone, Wood Block, Cow Bell, Gong, Cabasa, Mark Tree, Tambourine, Triangle, Slapstick, Siren Whistle, Slide Whistle (optional)

    Trap Set: Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Floor Drum, Cymbals (Hi-Hat, Splash, Crash)

    1 Synthesizer (optional)

    Piano (Piano-Conductor's Score sent with rehearsal material)



    $100.00 +$75.00/pm