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1. Find in the text the following words and word combinations.

Страстная театралка; хороший спектакль; музыкальная комедия; водевиль; кукольный театр; трудно достать билеты в этот театр; театр оперы и балета; «Спящая красавица»; билеты в ложу; заранее; билетерша; фойе; гардероб; первоклассный состав; театр был полон; публика медленно заполняет зал; оркестр настраивает инструменты; дирижер; кордебалет; декорации; последние театральные новости; публика взорвалась аплодисментами; вызов актера на сцену; «Соловей»; очень популярен у зрителей.

2. Retell this text.

3. Could you tell about your last visit to the theatre?

II. Sister, act!*

One of my most favourite pastimes is watching films, no matter if I go to the cinema or watch them on TV or video at home. Sometimes, when I am very tired and don't want to think about anything serious I choose some cartoon or an old comedy from my video collection and make myself comfortable on the sofa or in the armchair and enjoy a film. I like different kinds of films excepting those with a lot of blood and brutality. And I don't like all those serials from Latin American countries. They are such rubbish!

Some time ago my friend presented me a fine musical comedy with Woopi Goldberg starring. The name of the film was "Sister, act!" As the titles of the film were in English and changed very quickly I couldn't catch the names of the director of the film, the director of photography, the production designer and the composer. The film was shot in America.

The plot of the story is rather simple. Woopi Goldberg acted the part of a variety singer, not very successful and lucky. She didn't suspect that her friend and boss was not only the owner of the casino but a famous gangster too. She understood it only when she witnessed his crime. He decided to kill her too. But she escaped the death by a mere chance and asked a familiar police detective to help her. And she was hidden in one of the nunneries, the last place where the gangsters would look for her. But it was the last place where she could live. The life styles of a pop singer and nuns were quite different. But there was nothing to do for her and she began her life there with the name Sister Mary. Once she heard the singing of the nuns' choir. It was something awful for her music ear. And Sister Mary decided to work with them. It was a job of work. She taught them to breathe and to pronounce the sounds correctly, and so on and so forth. As the result the choir became well-known. Once the local television showed them in one of the programmes and the gangsters saw it. They kidnapped her from the nunnery and were about to kill her but failed. The nuns of nunnery and the police detectives saved her. The final scene of the film was the performance of the choir with Sister Mary as a conductor to Pope.

The film is very funny. It's full of humorous situations and dialogues. And in this film I can listen to a lot of nice music and spirituals in modern arrangement. The actors performed wonderfully. I like this film. And there is a sequel "Sister, act! – 2". Now I have it in my collection too.

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