Whoopi Goldberg celebrated yesterday on her show ‘The View’ on the 3rd0th anniversary of ‘Sister Act 2: Back to the convent’ bringing the cast together in a festive reunion that ended in tears of emotion. The actress and presenter brought together several of the children who formed the film’s choir and recreated two of their most iconic songs: the scene in which her character, Sister Mary Clarence, leads them in a moving rendition of ‘Oh Happy Day ‘, and the closing of the sequel with ‘Joyful, Joyful’.
Goldberg begins by warming up his voice with his singing games, like in the movie, until lead vocalist Ryan Toby, who played young Ahmal in ‘Sister Act 2’, begins with the first verses of ‘Oh Happy Day’ with the actress. Among the chorus, among several of the actors and actresses who played Deloris’ students, is also Goldberg’s daughter, Alex Martinwho appeared as an extra in the film, as well as students from LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts.
In another clip recovered from the talk show, the film’s co-star nuns Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena and Sheryl Lee Ralph They join the group singing ‘Joyful, Joyful’, with The War and Treaty singer Tanya Trotter filling in for Lauryn Hill, who was absent from the reunion. At the end, Goldberg bursts into tears hugging her former colleagues.
The show also welcomed the film’s music supervisor, Marc Shaimanand the music producer Mervyn Warrenwhile several video messages from the cast members of ‘Sister Act 2’ Jenifer Lewis, Erica Campbell, Alanna Ubach and Jennifer Love Hewitt They showed their affection and nostalgia for the anniversary.
It is not the first time that Whoopi uses her program to vindicate the ‘Sister Act’ films. In 2017, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the first installment, he met with several of his former colleagues to recreate the choir of nuns singing ‘I Will Follow Him’ in a great moment that we recovered at the time on our networks:
As for ‘Sister Act 3′the sequel that has been hanging around Hollywood for years without ever coming to fruition, Whoopi herself has assured in several interviews this year that the project is still in development and that it has come to offer a cameo to Pope Francis himselfon a trip to the Vatican he took in 2023. “Actually, I think he’s a bit of a fan [de ‘Sister Act’]”Goldberg revealed on Jimmy Fallon’s show just a month ago. “I offered him a cameo and he said ‘he’d have to check his schedule.’ He told me: ‘One of the best things you can do to help people is to cheer them up and make them laugh.’“
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