Nunsense

The musical comedy Nunsense developed from an unlikely source of inspiration: a series greetings cards featuring a witty nun. When his card series quickly gained popularity, Dan Goggin turned the idea into a cabaret show he called The Nunsense Story, and the success of the show encouraged him to further expand the project into a full-length musical. Nunsense is a five-woman show that tells the story of a group of nuns who return to their convent one night and discover that their cook, Julia, Child of God, has accidentally killed the rest of the convent with bad vichyssoise soup. The remaining sisters raise money to bury their deceased, but a miscalculation of funds leaves them with four unburied bodies that they resort to storing in the freezers. In order to raise the money to bury the remaining bodies, Mother Superior Mary Regina and her unlikely group of sisters decide to put on a variety show at a nearby high school auditorium. Together the quick-tongued sisters put on a hilarious display of the frivolous side of convent life.