Religion: Sister Act

When half a dozen nuns, in full habits and gaudy aprons, do a ballet with kitchen utensils, ending up with an imitation of the Rockettes, almost any audience is bound to be impressed. So, last week, were audiences that filled a University of Notre Dame auditorium to watch The Complaining Angel, a new musical performed entirely by nuns.

The 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...

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