"Sister Act" is a hit.

Just got home from seeing "Sister Act, the Musical" presented by University of Saint Francis School of Creative Arts (SOCA they call themselves for those of you who like acronyms). It was an excellent performance, great voices for all of the solos and lots of energy.  As usual I got caught up in admiring the stage sets and these were outstanding.  From soaring Gothic archs to a seedy bar to a run down police department everything was well done.  When they added disco balls and glittering strings of light for the final performance in the cathedral it made me wish every church had disco balls.  Well maybe not really but it was a lot of fun.  The Mother Superior reminded me of Sister Annthelma, the principal when I taught at St. Henry's School many years ago.  This play takes place in the 70s and I was teaching early in that same decade. Like the Mother Superiior in the play, Sister Annthelma was just not at all sure that all the changes taking place in the Catholic church were for the best.  She was the last nun in the school to change to the street length habit and when the Pope decreed that women and girls didn't need to cover their hair in mass any more you could tell that, even though she knew the Pope was infallible, she suspected that he migth have missread God's intent in this case.