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 Killing of Sister George The Killing of Sister George The Killing of Sister George is a 1964 play by Frank Marcus that was later adapted into a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich. Sister George is a beloved character in the popular radio series "Applehurst", a nurse who ministers to the medical needs and personal problems of the local villagers. She is played by June Buckridge, who in real life is a gin-guzzling, cigar-chomping, slightly sadistic masculine woman, the antithesis of the sweet character she plays. She is often called George in real life, and lives with Alice "Childie" McNaught, a younger dimwitted woman