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Article: Nun to be found: Our Lady of 121st Street spotlights strong actors and a play that's funny despite its flaws. (theater review).(Theater Review)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2003
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Our Lady of 121st Street * Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis * Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman * Union Square Theatre, New York City (open run)
Sister Rose was a mean drunk of an Irish nun schoolteacher in Harlem when she fell in the gutter and died. But she'd done so much selfless service in her life that all the kids she ever taught remember her fondly and show up at the funeral home to pay their respects. Only thing is, somebody has stolen the body.
That's where Stephen Adly Guirgis's Our Lady of 121st Street begins. And the play riotously tracks the next 24 hours in the lives of a vaudevillian parade of over-the-top characters, kids from a tough ...