Sister Act 2: Sister Time (Musical)

Sister Act 2: Sister Time is an all-women musical based on the hit 1993 film of the same name with music reused by Alan Menken's Sister Act, Don Bluth's Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version, and Stephen Flaherty's Ragtime, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book that is going to be featuring all nuns and animals.

What will the show open?
The Sister Act 2: Sister Time show will open in March 7th, 2022 with a new Broadway recording.

Characters

 * 1) Deloris Van Cartier (Sister Mary Clarence)
 * 2) Mother Superior (Sister Rafiki)
 * 3) Sister Mary Robert
 * 4) Sister Mary Patrick (Kaban)
 * 5) Sister Mary Lazarus
 * 6) Sister Mary Mufasa
 * 7) Sister Mary Sunday
 * 8) Sister Mary Simba
 * 9) Sister Mary Nala
 * 10) Sister Mary Kiara
 * 11) Sister Mary George
 * 12) Sister Mary Meena
 * 13) Reverend Mother (Sister Mary Regina)
 * 14) Sister Mary Hubert
 * 15) Sister Robert Anne
 * 16) Sister Mary Paul (Amnesia)
 * 17) Sister Mary Annette
 * 18) Father Virgil (Sister Leo's brother)
 * 19) Tevye (from Meshuggah-nuns)
 * 20) Sister Mary Korrina
 * 21) Sister Mary Iris
 * 22) Sister Mary Olivia
 * 23) Sister Mary Valerie
 * 24) Sister Mary Serena
 * 25) Sister Mary Karen
 * 26) Sister Mary Conklin
 * 27) Sister Mary Zira
 * 28) Sister Mary Fuli
 * 29) Sister Mary Kion
 * 30) Sister Mary Anga
 * 31) Sister Mary Beshte
 * 32) Sister Mary Ono
 * 33) Sister Mary Bunga
 * 34) Sister Mary Azaad
 * 35) Sister Mary Eddie
 * 36) Sister Mary Pablo
 * 37) Sister Mary Kayla
 * 38) Sister Mary Mayzie
 * 39) Sister Ford (Sister Mary Flamingo with flamingo feathers)
 * 40) Sister Mary Dolittle
 * 41) Sister Mary Lana
 * 42) Sister Mary Lillie
 * 43) Sister Mary Wilhelm
 * 44) Sister Mary Jane
 * 45) Sister Mary Luke
 * 46) Sister Mary Brendan
 * 47) Sister Mary Cecilia
 * 48) Sister Mary Lezin
 * 49) Sister Mary Petroc
 * 50) Sister Mary Antioch
 * 51) Sister Mary Katari
 * 52) Sister Mary Wiligis
 * 53) Sister Mary Miguel
 * 54) Sister Mary Josephat
 * 55) Sister Mary Genesius
 * 56) Sister Mary Emebert
 * 57) Sister Mary Morgan
 * 58) Sister Mary Washington
 * 59) Sister Mary Jefferson
 * 60) Sister Mary Goldman
 * 61) Sister Mary White
 * 62) Sister Mary Paddington
 * 63) Sister Mary Sarah
 * 64) Sister Mary Perpetua
 * 65) Sister Mary Huckle
 * 66) Sister Mary Vitani
 * 67) Sister Mary Makini
 * 68) Sister Theodosia (Lion cub)
 * 69) Sister Mary Willard
 * 70) Sister Mary Madeline
 * 71) Sister Mary Honoria Glossop
 * 72) Sister Julia

Act One
Three social castes in 2004 (during Baby Noah with 20 wild animals) introduce themselves to the audience: the first is an upper-class nun family from the convent— Sister Mary George, Sister Mary Mufasa, Sister Mary Nala, Deloris Van Cartier (Sister Mary Clarence), Sister Rafiki (Mother Superior), Sister Mary Regina (Reverend Mother), and The Little Sisters of Hoboken with Father Virgil and Tevye—who live a genteel life and enjoy a lack of racial and ethnic diversity; the second is the new residents of the convent including Sister Mary Patrick and Sister Mary Robert; the third and last world are new sisters from the Convent of North Carolina, among them Sister Mary Korrina and her daughter Sister Mary Wilhelm. These three worlds are connected by narration from the luminaries Sister Mary Morgan, Sister Mary Flamingo, Sister Mary Washington, Sister Mary Goldman, Sister Mary Sunday, Sister Mary Zira, and Sister Mary Simba (“Prologue—Sister Time”).

Nala bids goodbye to Sister Mary Mufasa as she embarks on Sister Mary Brendan's expedition to the North Pole. She asks Nala to oversee her affairs and assures her that nothing will change in her absence, but Nala feels adrift without her sidekick to guide her (“Goodbye, My Love”).

As Sister Mary Brendan and her ship depart, Mufasa watches as a “ship with a tiger wallpaper" arrives, carrying a hopeful friend (Sister Mary Korrina) and her Little Girl (Sister Mary Kiara) to the convent of America, while Nala, back on shore, wishes Mufasa's safe passage (“Journey On”).

Meanwhile, Sister Mary Ono, an intense and awkward young nun yearning for purpose who works at Mufasa's fireworks factory, attends the Vegasville act of Sister Mary Simba, a young nun who became famous after her wealthy lover Sister Mary White was killed by her millionaire nun Sister Mary Paddington (“Crime of the Century”). When the show continues, Sister Mary Ono confesses her lesbian love to Sister Mary Simba. She kisses her, but only for the benefit of a press photographer, and cheerfully rejects her afterward.

Back at home in the convent, Nala discovers a newborn nun partly buried alive in her garden. The police arrive with Sister Mary Sarah, the lion cub's mother. Pitying her, Nala takes responsibility for Sarah and her child. Surprised at herself, she remarks that her nun would never have allowed her to make such a decision (“What Kind of Woman”).

At the Franklin Park Zoo with peacocks, the monkey immigrants arrive (“A Shtetl Iz Amereke”). Sister Mary Korrina eagerly begins her new life, drawing silhouettes and selling them on the street. She and Sister Mary Kiara quickly go into zoology studying animals and birds. Sister Mary Goldman attempts to get her to join the Socialist movement, but she refuses. A wealthy nun even offers to purchase Sister Mary Kiara, whom she now keeps on a leash for safety. Inspired by 2 immigrant magicians Sister Mary Sunday and Sister Mary Zira, Sister Mary Korrina resolves to begin again somewhere else (“Success”).

In North Carolina, Sister Mary Jefferson, a popular pianist, informs her audience and nuns that she's finally found her lost love, Sister Mary Sarah, and is going to win her back (“Her Name Was Jefferson”/“Gettin' Ready Rag”). She then purchases a Vulture-Feathered V (a limousine) while Sister Mary Flamingo and her nuns glorify industry (“Sister Ford”).

Our journey continues with Sister Mary Korrina and Sister Mary Kiara ready to migrate to Boston; en route, they meet Sister Mary Nala and Sister Mary George while stopping in New Rochelle. They politely make conversation (“Nothing Like the City”). In the attic of our 2004 convent, Sarah explains her desperate actions in a song to her cub (“Sister Theodosia”).

Also, en route to our convent, Sister Mary Jefferson again is harassed by a racist fire squad led by chief Sister Mary Conklin, who taunts her for driving her own car. She arrives in our 2004 convent (with Baby Mozart the Koala and Baby Noah's animal footage), where she has heard that a black-and-white (zebra striped) nun is living. She is stunned to learn of the cub's existence and when Sarah refuses to see him, he resorts to returning weekly (“The Courtship”) until we see Sister Mary Nala invites her inside. Tevye asks Sister Mary Jefferson to play a minstrel song on the parlor piano; instead, Sister Mary Jefferson plays a gospel song! Sister Mary Mufasa runs to our convent while Sister Mary Jefferson is playing, and is stunned by the changes to her family's life, while Sister Mary Nala and her teenage nuns (Sister Mary Kion, Sister Mary Fuli, Sister Mary Ono, Sister Mary Anga, Sister Mary Beshte, Sister Mary Bunga, and Sister Mary Azaad) are proud of her choices.

Eventually, Sister Mary Sarah comes down from the attic and reconciles with Sister Mary Jefferson (“New Music”). This is followed by the two on an idyllic picnic where, inspired by the words of Sister Mary Washington, she dreams of a just, future America that their friend will grow up in (“Wheels of a Dream”).

Next, when the zebras escaped from the San DIego Zoo, Sister Mary Ono enters a workers' hall. There, Sister Mary Goldman speaks passionately about a textile mills strike in our convent, where Korrina and her daughter Kiara are among those targeted by federal troops and strikebreakers. Sister Mary Ono imagines Goldman is speaking directly to her (“The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square”).

Uh-oh! Sister Mary Goldman is arrested, prompting a riot that mirrors the chaos in the convent, where Korrina is chased by a hyena while trying to flee away from the vultures and hyenas! She and Sister Mary Kiara escape our convent in a limousine; she gives her daughter an animal encyclopedia book to calm her. The valet offers to buy the book, and Korrina, hurriedly said it was Sister Mary George's book, sells it for a dollar. Korrina realizes that Sister Mary George's Book may be a route out to zoology (“Gliding”).

Sister Mary Flamingo got an idea! She names the lion cub, Sister Theodosia thinking that she is a female lion cub!

Hearing Sister Mary Flamingo's news, Sister Mary Jefferson and Sister Mary Sarah are stopped by Will Conklin and the fire squad with an Arctic fox. Sister Mary Conklin demands a fictitious toll; Sister Mary Jefferson refuses.

A lecture by Sister Mary Washington on patience and dignity ironically underscores the white fox from the Arctic using protection of Sister Mary Jefferson's new Vulture-Feathered V (“The Trashing of the Car”).

Sister Mary Serena runs in horror and vows legal action (“Justice”), postponing her marriage to Sarah until she gets justice.

Sister Mary Sarah hears of a 2010 campaign rally nearby and goes to ask for help from the vice presidential candidate (Sister Mary Madeline); as she approaches, an onlooker shouts "She's got a Bengal tiger!" and Sister Mary Sarah is swallowed alive by an orca whale, WHOLE (“Proper Nun'")!

When the orca whale circles around us (like the vultures!), the nuns demand an end to such injustice and pray for true equality. Sister Mary Nala, Sister Mary Mufasa, Sister Mary Ono, Sister Mary Korrina and Sister Mary Goldman look on as Sister Mary Jefferson watches the orca swim in the aquarium (“Till We Reach That Day”).

Act Two
Suddenly in 2012 (Year of the Dragon), news arrives that a volunteer hotel has been bombed. Sister Mary Jefferson has vowed to get justice on her own terms (“Sister Mary Jefferson's Soliloquy”) and now terrorizes our convent while demanding her car be restored to her and that Sister Mary Conklin be delivered to her. Sister Mary Washington condemns Jefferson's actions (“Sister Mary Jefferson Demands”). In the chaos, Sister Mary Nala retains custody of Sister Mary Sarah and Sister Theodosia (our lion cub)!

This is followed by Sister Mary George waking up screaming from a nightmare in which Sister Mary Zira attempts a daring escape after being locked in a dynamite-laden box by Sister Mary Conklin ("Sister Mary Zira, Master Escapist") in 2014 (Year of the Horse).

Sister Mary Mufasa, calms Sister Mary George from the nightmare takes her nun to a basketball game, but feels alienated from the raucous, working-class crowd, and begins to realize that her genteel way of life is passing (“What a Game”).

Sister Mary Jefferson's campaign continues (“Fire in the City”), and so Sister Mary Mufasa decides to temporarily move her gang to Atlantic City!

Quickly, Sister Mary Simba's career is on the downslide and Sister Mary Zira has becoming intrigued by the supernatural and the afterlife following the survival of her mother (“Atlantic City”).

Sister Mary George and the Nuns cryptically shout "Warn the Monkey!" to Sister Mary Zira.

Sister Mary Nala encounters Sister Mary Korrina again! Nala begins recognizing her from their brief meeting months ago; now a wealthy zoologist, ornithologist and filmmaker, she has re-invented herself as "The Singing Walrus" and is watching a Baby Noah video (with 20 wild animals) in Atlantic City (“Gruffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc.”)!