FROM A PRESS RELEASE
( OCTOBER 27, 2009, CHICAGO, IL ) Have you always wondered: Did Baby Jesus get to ride in the sleigh? Was Santa in the manger with the Holy Family? Did the elves guide the Three Wise Men? Holy Holidays! Your favorite nun will answer these questions and more in the new Christmas Holiday comedy, Mother Superior's Ho-Ho-Holy Night.
Mother Superior's Ho-Ho-Holy Night opens Saturday, November 28th, 2009, 8PM, at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. The show will run Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. through January 3, 2010 ( six weeks only ) .
Tickets for Mother Superior's Ho-Ho-Holy Night are $30, but group and student rates are available. For more information, contact the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted, Chicago, or call the box office at 312-988-9000. Also check out the web site: www.nuns4fun.com .
Vicki Quade, creator of the hit show Late Nite Catechism, sends Mother Superior to a new parish to help create a holiday pageant like never before. As always, Mother Superior's ruler is quick, her aim is spot-on, and she wants to help the folks at St. Gabriel's come up with a new holiday pageant that will impress the Vatican and win an audience with the Pope!
Lisa Braatz and Margaret Kustermann will alternate in the role of Mother Superior. Both actresses also appear in the Chicago production of Late Nite Catechism, and Braatz also appears in Quade's other comedy, Put the Nuns in Charge!
Quade calls Mother Superior's Ho-Ho-Holy Night "…a funny look at past and present Catholic Christmas traditions, from hanging stockings on St. Nicholas' feast day, to singing odd Christmas carols, to a recreation of the events leading up to the birth of Jesus Christ."
Of course, as a nun, Mother Superior has lots of opinions about the holidays and Catholicism in general. An interactive experience, the audience not only gets to vote on which Christmas family traditions to feature, but there are also prizes for those who can answer Mother Superior's trivia questions. And, as with all of Quade's "nun" comedies, there's a question and answer segment where the audience can ask Mother Superior about anything! Just be sure you WANT to get her attention!!
In 1993, Vicki Quade brought to life an idea for a one woman show that would become the hit comedy, Late Nite Catechism, which has been running in Chicago since 1993 and turned into a national and international hit, with productions in more than 150 cities.
In 2005, Quade created the comedy, Put the Nuns in Charge! and in 2007 her third "nun" show opened, Sunday School Cinema. Both of those shows are still running in Chicago and have done tours nationwide. Her fourth comedy, Saints & Sinners, opened earlier this year.
"Schools and parishes throughout Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin have enjoyed my shows as an easy way of raising much-needed money to balance their budgets, and I'm thrilled to offer this new holiday show," says Quade. In addition, each of her shows is also used to raise much needed retirement funds for orders of nuns throughout the country. Through her comedies, Quade has helped raise more than $2 million in donations to various orders of nuns nationwide.
For her work raising awareness of the plight of retired Sisters, Quade received the Spirit of Benedict Award in 2003 from the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, and, in 2005, was given a Partners in Mission Award by the Sisters of the Living Word in Arlington Heights, IL. She was honored in 2009 by the Sisters of Providence in Indiana for donations to that order.
With the addition of this Holiday show, there will be four "nun" comedies in rotation at the Royal George Theatre: Late Nite Catechism at 8 p.m. Thursdays; Put the Nuns in Charge! at 8 p.m. Fridays; Saints & Sinners at 5 p.m. Saturdays; and Mother Superior's Ho-Ho-Holy Night at 8 p.m. Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays from November 28-January 3rd for a six-week run.