Students’ ‘Sister Act’ is a winner

TRANSITION Year (TY) girls aided by some plucky male volunteers from Blackrock College staged a wonderful production of the musical Sister Act last week.

This divine musical comedy was an absolute hoot from start to finish, with heavenly performances, catchy tunes and glitzy costumes.

Sister Act centres on nightclub singer Deloris Van Cartier (Laoise Burns) who witnesses a gangland murder by her mobster boyfriend Curtis (John Cawley).

For her own protection, she is placed by police in a convent, disguised as a nun. She transforms the tuneless, lack-lustre choir into a boogying, sparkling group, belting out disco-style and Motown-flavoured numbers.

The girls and guys on stage kept the audience enthralled with their portrayal of the main cast including the characters of Mother Superior (Sarah Colgan), Monsignor O’Hara (Naoise Cautley), Sister Mary Robert (Eithne Cunney), and Sister Mary Patrick.

Behind the scenes, the backstage crew worked feverishly to keep the show on the road. As ever, all posters, programmes, props and costumes were produced and designed by the students and staff in Rathdown School.

The audiences thoroughly enjoyed all of the performances and showed their appreciation for the hours of rehearsals that went into yet another successful production. 

Each year, the students put on a musical performance as part of their TY programme.

Last year, students starred in a production of Hairspray.