When a stage adaptation of a pre-existing work fizzles, it's typically because it hasn't adequately captured the spirit or the necessity of its source. Whether or not it's otherwise faithful to the original is usually an academic concern. With Sister Act, the new musical incarnation of the 1992 Hollywood comedy that just opened at the Broadway, the problem runs deeper. So much is the same, and yet so much is differen…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:21PM on April 20, 2011