Photo by Keith Stewart
Reverend Mother Sister Mary Regina, played by Therese Kincade, gets wild after sniffing amyl nitrate, at first, by accident.

Farcical musical energetic, laugh-out-loud

By Dan Hagen
NP Theatre Critic

What’s black and white and treads all over the country?

That would be the musical “Nunsense,” a 1985 show that, with its sundry sequels and spin-offs, is really more an institution now. It’s even been converted to a drag show — “Nunsense A-Men.”

Dan Goggin’s musical didn’t start as a show, either, but as a line of greeting cards.

Its durability springs from the awe and fear Catholic schoolchildren have for nuns, and its comedy depends — as so much of comedy has from the beginning of time — on the subversion of authority figures. That subversion soothes any ill feelings left over from hands that might once have been smacked by rulers.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.