So I saw Sister Act. It was...ummm...yea...nooo...
From the beginning I didn't think it was a good idea. Now, it had like 3, 4, or maybe 5 *but I really don't think that many) good songs, mainly "Take Me to Heaven", Deloris' song about being fabulous whatever the title is, the song when the convent learns to sing music well, and finally the song I believe is titled "Sister Act", and I really liked when she sang that song and Deloris couldn't stay away from the convent and how they worked the words "sister act" into it, but probably the most memorable thing for me from the show was the lyrics "if we're only so so, you're not gonna know so!'" referring to guys seducing nuns...yea lol. And the set was really good and amazing, except for the gaudy and blasphemous pieces, but it all moved and was put together well.
Raven Symone was Deloris when I went, she's still there now. I was excited to see her, and I felt like she made it out of Disney Cheapness I mean Disney Channel mediocrity into actual stardom...but I don't know. She's talented and all but I either have too high standards or she really was just rather underwhelming. She didn't make the show a smash but the problem is really more the show itself. I don't think it's very good, I don't think it should've been done except to slake curiosity and opportunity, and the show really actually offends me and makes me feel bad.
The end message was summed up with Raven being rather unsettlingly convincing as she says the greatness of raising your voice is only being human while Mother Superior hopes she finds it to be God before finally saying it's both, which sounded nice until she sang about how all that matters is love and religion is just a form of it. I get it, seriously I get it, it sounds like a really great sentiment that all humans just love and religion is just one different way. But the song was making it sound like atheism was the winner and religion was just love, that it wasn't actually God and that believing in God didn't matter, it's just something to do.
Yea yea I know, hardly any of you are religious and you probably think I'm too easily offended yet again, but the whole musical was treating religion not as something sacred to others but kinda just a thing to do that doesn't matter and you could even mess with it by making a giant Mary statue that glitters and revolves. I dunno. The show put a really bad taste in my mouth. There was however one message I thought was really good in the show, and that was the one about how Deloris didn't need to become a big star loved by everyone, she knew she was a star doing what she loved with her sisters (the nuns) who loved her. It wasn't done the best because she went on to try and become a star anyway later and would only visit the nuns sometimes, but that message was great, because there's so many people who watch Broadway shows and unfortunately there dreams of becoming stars like the people on Broadway cannot come true for everyone, but they don't need it to to be stars.
If I hadn't found out that Alan Menken is...agnostic and doesn't seem to prescribe to any religion (or care about any religion?!) the show would have really surprised me with his making a musical of King David and I thought other religious types of shows.
I don't remember the movie all that well because I saw it when I was younger, but I think regardless of being religious or not, most people would say that this musical is no great one and the movie was a looot better.
Still, congratulations for Alan Menken! 
