Sister Act role, making her Broadway debut. She was later replaced by Raven-Symoné, also making her Broadway debut. The Original Broadway cast featured Victoria Clark (Mother Superior), Fred Applegate (Monsignor), Sarah Bolt (Sister Mary Patrick), Chester Gregory (Eddie), Kingsley Leggs (Curtis), Marla Mindelle (Sister Mary Robert) and Audrie Neenan (Sister Mary Lazarus). The musical received five Tony Award nominations including Best Musical.The musical closed in August 2012 after playing 561 performances. Sister Act Sister Act is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Joseph Howard, with musical arrangements by Marc Shaiman. It stars Whoopi Goldberg as a
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