Sister Act at Darlington Hippodrome this week proved to be just as energetic and uplifting as it was promised to be. The show is based on the 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg about an aspiring 1970s nightclub singer Deloris Van Cartier, played here by Landi Oshinowo to much laughter and applause.
Van Cartier takes refuge in a crumbling convent after witnessing a murder. Cloistered in the cloisters, and unwilling to repent her normal life, she invests her energy into the choir, giving succour to the sisters and putting the hood into sisterhood.
Oshinowo shone in glitter and in robe. Alfie Parker was outstanding as the stereotypical, doughnut-eating, single guy cop, with superb comic timing and was not too shabby at singing either.
One companion noted that the script doesn’t follow the film and some bits have been cut and the plot tightened, but this nearly three hour show was a long enough feel-good fix, with everyone leaving, their souls lifted just little bit closer to heaven.
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