Singing Nuns Return, George W. Bush Gets Loaded: John Simon
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When it opened off-Broadway 25 years ago, “Nunsense” struck enough people as whimsical and charming to sustain a run of 3,672 performances and spawn a global franchise that made a multimillionaire of its creator, Dan Goggin.
Revived now, Goggin’s musical revue about the Little Sisters of Hoboken is as tired and slight as a flower pressed in a book with no meaningful memory attached.