Patina Miller
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Patina Miller will make her West End debut playing the lead role of Deloris Van Cartier in the new musical Sister Act, based on the hit movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, who's co-producing the stage version. Miller will joined by the Olivier Award-winning Shelia Hancock as Mother Superior and Ian Lavender (EastEnders) as Monsignor Howard. Sister Act starts previews at the London Palladium on May 7, with opening night set for June 2, directed by Peter Schneider.
Born and raised in South Carolina, Miller played Dionne in last summer's Central Park production of Hair and was part of the ensemble of the new musical Romantic Poetry at Manhattan Theatre Club last fall. She landed the starring role in Sister Act after the show’s producers conducted a year-long global search. Says Goldberg, via press release, “It wasn’t easy, but we did it. And boy, can she sing (unlike some people we know – me!).”...