Second Longest Running Off-Broadway Play Comes To Ocean City This Fall

Ocean City, NJ -- The Greater Ocean City Theatre Company is extending its professional Broadway series with the international musical comedy sensation “Nunsense” this fall.

Performances will take place on Oct. 7 and 8 at 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 9 at 2 p.m., the theater company announced on Thursday.

Dann Dunn (director of OCTC’s “West Side Story” and “Damn Yankees”) is the director/choreographer, and Andrew Hink is the musical director.

With 3,672 performances, “Nunsense” is the second-longest-running Off-Broadway show in history. It was first performed in 1985 at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre before moving to the Douglas Fairbanks Theater for the majority of its 10-year run.

By the time it closed, it had become an international phenomenon translated into at least 26 languages with more than 8,000 productions worldwide, according to the theater company.

It features five professional actresses and one puppet as the wacky Little Sisters of Hoboken.

“Nunsense” is Playwright/Composer/Lyricist Dan Goggin's story of five desperate nuns trying to raise enough cash to bury four sisters who died of food poisoning and are being kept on ice.

There are some poignant issues at the core of this wonderful and wacky musical, according to the description provided by the theater company.

Each nun reveals, to the audience - not to their Sisters - long held aspirations or personal stories they've kept to themselves.

Goggin said that each of these characters is based on a nun he knew growing up Catholic.

Tickets range from $15-$20, and can be purchased by calling the Box Office at 609-399-6111 or visiting ocnj.us/boxoffice.

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