Originally scheduled to be staged back in 2020, and then in 2021 with the draw being that Whoopi Goldberg was to star, alongside Jennifer Saunders, and revise her role as cabaret singer and gangster’s moll Deloris Van Cartier from the movies of the same name. She witnesses her boyfriend murdering someone so off into hiding she goes and a nunnery seems the best place.

Sister Act is just spectacular and the songs very groovy evoking 70’s Philadelphia. Beverly Knight as Deloris was just exquisite and the girl can sing. Her vocal range is off the charts and delivers a powerhouse of raw emotion and pure talent.

Saunders holds her own and only to be expected has some great one-liners, intimating that when she performs her duet with Knight, Beverly is a bit pitchy, that obviously got a good laugh. Her performance showcases her ability to play timid then boom feisty and her comedy timing is immaculate which Saunders is a master at.

Clive Rowe as Eddie Souther also proves that he has a set of pipes on him that even when he is singing his show-stopper of a number “I Could Be That Guy” and also handling an on stage costume change he does not falter. A sensational vocalist with a lot of soul.

However the scene stealer awards have to go to Lesley Joseph as Sister Mary Lazurus who is just so good even when it comes down to the delivery of a rap and the incredible Lizzie Bea whose touch song of a number “The Life I Never Led” was mesmerising and world-class.

If divine intervention is a real thing than come the next awards season Sister Act should scoop the lot.

This is a must-see, and you will leave the theatre praising him or she upstairs. Sister Act deserves to be shown as much brotherly love as humanly possible.

Beverly Knight as Deloris is exquisite in a spectacular Sister Act

Sister Act The Musical

Eventim Apollo

Stephen Vowles

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