HART’s third show this season is the outrageous musical comedy Nunsense.

Directed by Suzanne Tinsley and featuring some local favorites, Nunsense includes Leslie Lang, Lyn Donley, Karen Covington, Tabitha Judy, and Lea Parker. The show opened off Broadway in 1985 and holds the record as the second longest off-Broadway show in history, surpassed only by The Fantastics.

There have been six sequels. The show has had more than 8,000 productions, and more than 25,000 women have been cast including: Edie Adams, Maxine Audley, Kaye Ballard, Honor Blackman, Pat Carroll, Peggy Cass, Phyllis Diller, Sally Struthers, Louise Gold, Maggie Fitzhugh, Georgia Ingle, Lee Meriweather, JoAnne Worley, and Rue McClanahan.

The concept: five of the 19 surviving Little Sisters of Hoboken, a one-time missionary order that ran a leper colony on an island south of France, discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, accidentally killed the other fifty-two residents of the convent with her tainted vichyssoise while they were off playing bingo.

With the deceased nuns on ice in the deep freeze, they decide to stage a variety show in the Mount Saint Helen’s School auditorium to raise the necessary funds for the burials.

If you’re looking for an evening of pure laughter, led by a kick line of nuns, you can’t go wrong with Nunsense. Nunsense opened May 22 and continues through June 14, 2015.

If You Go: Nunsense, June 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 & 13 at 7:30 and June 7 and 14 at 3 p.m. There are special student discounts for Sunday performances, and a Buy One, Get One free discount for Thursday performances. Tickets are available on line at www.harttheatre.org or by calling the HART Box Office, at (828) 456-6322 Tues-Sat. from 1-5 p.m. Performances are at the HART Theatre, 250 Pigeon St. in Waynesville.