As the Hellish holiday of Halloween quickly approaches, this past weekend I needed a Heavenly break from the goblins and ghouls by taking in a Friday night showing of the Broadway musical Sister Act down at the majestic Sooner Theatre, 101 E. Main St. in Norman.
While it may seem a little, ironically enough, sacrilegious this time of year to get excited about a roomful of singing nuns, I have had a long and varied history with the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film; mostly, it’s one of the few movies I have ever seen in a movie theatre with my mother—the other one was Patch Adams, in case you cared—from a time where the dogma of Catholicism was far stronger (and fearfully severe) inside me.