About Nunsense

View of the house at Messiah Lutheran (top picture: view from stage; bottom picture: view from entrance.)

Dan Goggin's Nunsense originally began as a series of greeting cards featuring nuns, expanded into a cabaret show, and finally premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre on December 12, 1985 in New York City. It became the second-longest-running Off-Broadway show resulting in six sequels.  This quirky, high-energy musical tells the story of five nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken, who must stage a benefit show to raise funds to bury the last four of their fellow sisters who died from food poisoning (accidentally served by the convent cook, Sister Julia, Child of God.) In 1993, Rue McClanahan starred as Reverend Mother Superior Sister Mary Regina, humorously disguising her glamorous Golden Girls persona as Blanche Devereaux with a nun’s habit and glasses. The adaptation proved popular enough to inspire Nunsense 2: The Sequel (1994), again starring McClanahan as Mother Superior alongside the original stage cast.


 

The Rotary Club

The Rotary Club is a global network of more than 1.2 million members. As one of a few bi-national Rotary Clubs in the world, the Rotary Club of Lewiston/ Niagara-on-the-Lake was founded in 1938. It is comprised of members from Canada and the United States. The Rotary club is proudly made up of community and business leaders representing different professions, experiences, and perspectives but with a shared mission to serve the needs of the communities in the binational arena.