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
The Devil in a Convent in the same year, as well as his strongly pro-Dreyfus film series "The Dreyfus Affair". The film may have been inspired in part by the phantasmagoria productions of the French magician Étienne-Gaspard Robert, known by the stage name "Robertson". Méliès himself plays the Devil in the film. "The Devil in a Convent" was likely the first Méliès film to take advantage of dissolves as a transition effect. "The Devil in a Convent" was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 185–187 in its catalogues, which also specified the film's three scenes ("1. Les nonnes, le sermon. 2. Les