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...enjoy your sparkling July 30 story on our musical play, The Complaining Angel. The mother of one of the pictured nuns cabled from Europe to say she saw it in your foreign edition. You implied that a Poor Clare nun wrote the lyrics you quoted. These and the indirect quotes used, e.g., "limp gimp," "dimpled wimple" came from the versatile playwright-professor, John D. Tumpane...
...Complaining Angel was a "harder ticket" than Broadway's My Fair Lady-only nuns were admitted to its three performances, staged as a training project by the department of speech for the summer school that annually brings some 800 teaching sisters to Notre Dame. "You can't teach a skill if you have never mastered it," explains Drama Teacher Natalie White, who wrote and directed the show. It is her third such sister act, but her first musical, and it was a hearty success. The nuns in the cast wore no makeup and wore their habits throughout...
...Jesuit Gimmick. Heroine of the play is a guardian angel just released from the heroic job of keeping a movie queen out of hell. "Love was a game," she sings of her former charge. "Men were so tame/ Like Nashua she ran every race./Though in her prime She lost every time./ But she died in the state of grace...
Sure that being guardian angel to a nun "is a lot more fun/in the race to the state of grace" because all nuns do is pray all day, the angel agrees to change places with her new charge, Sister Angelica, to show her how simple a nun's life really can be. In no time the angel is in hot water with the mother superior for her angelic frankness. When Sister Angelica tells her to stop it, the angel complains: "Do you mean I cannot tell the truth in a convent?" No, says the sister. "Use mental reservation...
...show closes with the angel exhausted and the nuns engaged in a rousing chorus...