Sister Act (franchise) including Best Musical. The musical closed in August 2012 after playing 561 performances. List indicator(s) Sister Act (franchise) Sister Act is a franchise which consists of two films: "Sister Act" (1992), "" (1993), and a Broadway musical. When a lively lounge singer Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) sees her mobster beau, Vince LaRocca (Harvey Keitel), commit murder, she is relocated for her protection. Set up in the guise of a nun in a California convent, Deloris proceeds to upend the quiet lives of the resident sisters. In an effort to keep her out of trouble, they assign Deloris to the
Six Months in a Convent Six Months in a Convent Six Months in a Convent is a memoir written by Rebecca Reed and published in 1835. It is an account of her stay at the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1832. The account was primarily written before, and published after, the 1834 Ursuline Convent riots, in which the facility was destroyed by rioting Protestants, and may have played a role in inspiring those riots. Reed was a witness at trials involving accused participants in the rioting. Rebecca Reed was a young Episcopalian woman from Boston who had attended the school operated by the Ursulines