‘Nunsense’ coming to ABAC this week

TIFTON — The Baldwin Players of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College will perform the musical comedy “Nunsense” at 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Howard Auditorium on the ABAC campus.

“Nunsense” was expanded from a line of greeting cards by Dan Goggin, who turned it into a musical. It opened in 1985 off-Broadway and was performed 3,672 times, making it the second-longest-running off-Broadway show in history. It was later adapted for TV and led to six sequels and three spin-offs.

The musical is about five of the 19 surviving Little Sisters of Hoboken, a one-time missionary order that ran a leper colony on an island south of France. The five nuns discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, accidentally killed the other 52 residents of the convent with her tainted vichyssoise while they were off playing bingo. Upon discovering the disaster, Mother Superior has a vision in which she was told to start a greeting card company to raise funds for the burials.

After the enormous success of the greeting cards — and thinking there is plenty of money — the Reverend Mother buys some items for the convent leaving her with no money to pay for the last four burials. With the deceased nuns on ice in the deep freeze, the sisters decide to stage a variety show in the Mount Saint Helen’s School auditorium to raise the funds.

Cast members include Taylor Walker, a music-vocal major from Omega, as Sister Mary Regina (Mother Superior); Krystina Braswell, a music-vocal major from Covington, as Sister Mary Hubert; Caroline Kirkland, a biology major from Tifton, as Sister Robert Anne; Juli-Ana Massey, a psychology major from Fitzgerald, as Sister Mary Leo; and Lauren Lever, a music major from Tifton, as Sister Mary Amnesia.

Dr. Brian Ray, director of the theatre troupe, say the admission is free to ABAC faculty, staff and students. The ticket cost is $7 per person for the general public. Contact Ray at (229) 391-4969 or email him at [email protected].