Nunsense: 25th Anniv revival announces cast

The five actresses who will play the Little Sisters of Hoboken in the 25th anniversary revival of Dan Goggin's musical comedy Nunsense have been announced.

Bonnie Lee will portray 'Reverend Mother Mary Regina,' Bambi Jones plays 'Sister Mary Hubert,' Maria Montana portrays 'Sister Robert Anne,' Stephanie Wahl is 'Sister Mary Leo' and Jeanne Tinker is 'Sister Mary Amnesia.'

The revival will play at Off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre where the musical about the eccentric religious sisters debuted in 1985. The revival opens at Cherry Lane on 22 Jun 2010, following previews from 15 Jun and runs through to 18 Jul 2010.

An instant hit when Dan Goggin wrote, directed and produced the musical 25 years ago, Nunsense follows the escapades of five nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken who realize that one of their own, Sister Julia, Child of God, has accidentally poisoned to death 52 fellow nuns in the convent while the quintet was off playing Bingo. Dan Goggin once again takes the helm as director.

The show's musical numbers include "Nunsense is Habit-Forming," "So You Want to be a Nun," "The Dying Nun Ballet," "Baking with the BVM" and "Holier Than Thou."

Nunsense has been a vehicle for an endless array of actresses through the years, including such well-known actresses as Rue McClanahan, Edie Adams, Phyllis Diller, Sally Struthers, JoAnne Worley, Kaye Ballard, Georgia Engel and Darlene Love. Cherry Lane's founding artistic director, Angelina Fiodellisi, was herself a member of the cast of Nunsense in 1987!

Since its debut as a cabaret show in Greenwich Village and its transfer Off-Broadway to the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1985, the musical Nunsense has been presented the world over with 8,000 productions (and counting), and has grossed more than $500 million.

Dan Goggin came to New York from Alma, Michigan to study as a singer. He sang in the Broadway production of 'Luther' starring Albert Finney. He began writing, while appearing in a comic folk-duo called 'The Saxons.' The first show he wrote the music for was 'Hark.' In 1986 Goggin received the Outer Critics' Circle Awards given to Nunsense for Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Music. Nunsense, in addition to running 10 years in New York City, has now run in thousands of theatres around the world. There have been over 30,000 "nuns" in the Nunsense family.

The Cherry Lane Theatre revival of Nunsense is part of the award-winning Off-Broadway theatre company's "Heritage Series," which brings back to the Cherry Lane 174-seat mainstage gems from the theatre's 86-year history. As New York's longest, continuously-running Off-Broadway theater, Cherry Lane Theatre is known as "the birthplace of Off-Broadway."