Covina Center Presents NUNSENSE 4/15

The Covina Center for the Performing Arts announces the opening of Dan Groggin's musical review Nunsense April 15, for a six week run at its newly reconstructed facility at Citrus and Badillo. Nunsense will be performed Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm with Sunday matinees offered at 2 pm.

Nunsense opened in 1985 and became the second longest running off-Broadway show in musical theatre history, winning Outer Critic Circle Awards for Best Book, Best Music and Best Production. The show is a musical review staged by five nuns seeking to raise money for the burials of departed sisters who have been poisoned by a tainted batch of vichyssoise. Desperate for funds, the sisters co-opt a local high school stage for their review, handily performing star solo turns, dance routines and audience quizzes on a set that remains from the school's recent production of the musical Grease.

Featured in CCPA's production are veterans and newcomers to the CCPA stage from throughout the San Gabriel Valley, Long Beach and Los Angeles. Sally Robinson is the Mother Superior Sister Mary Regina, a former circus performer; Jacquelyn Levy is her ambitious second in command, Sister Hubert; Caitlin Lopez is the street-wise Sister Mary Regina; Ann Villella is ballerina wanna-be, Sister Mary Leo, and Joanna Levin is Sister Mary Amnesia, a novice who lost her memory when a crucifix fell on her head. Amanda Ditto and Christina Wagenet complete the ensemble.

The production is directed by Alison England Sam, most recently seen in her one-woman show‘Opera, Broadway, and Beyond at CCPA. England Sam also performed Mama Rose in 2009's Gypsy and directed HMS Pinafore at CCPA in October, 2009. Yazmine Fleming-Peterson is musical director for Nunsense; Dan Cloud is performance pianist. Angelo Collado is producer/technical director and Stacy Benjamin will stage manager, assisted by Adreinne Mora.

Tickets for the production, which will run until May 16, are $34, and may be obtained by calling the box office at 626-331-8133 or by visiting the CCPA website at www.covinacenter.com.

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