Sister Act opens at the Grand Theatre

The curtain has gone up on comedy Sister Act at Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre – and is already proving a huge hit.

The musical saw much of the audience in the packed auditorium on their feet as the cast took a bow in last night's opening show.

Sister Act has played to more than one million people at the London Palladium during its West End run.

Its latest incarnation in Wolverhampton features Denise Black of Coronation Street fame as Mother Superior as well as Brookside and The Royal favourite Michael Starke as Monsignor O'Hara.

The stage version of the Whoopi Goldberg firm tells the story of disco diva Deloris Van Cartier who is put into protective custody in a convent after witnessing a murder.

She makes the wrong impression on the convent's strict Mother Superior but she hits the right notes when she turns her attention to the church's off-key choir.

It runs until February 18.