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The Mad Anthony Theatre Company lets the holidays get a little wacky with “Nuncrackers.”

Like “Nunsense” and “Nunsense II,” “Nuncrackers” features the Sisters of Hoboken as they try to raise money.

“This time, they’ve turned the basement of the convent into  a TV studio and they are taping their first Christmas special,” said director Pat Ganz, who has previously directed the first two shows for Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre productions and has many of the actresses returning in their roles.

Director Pat Ganz has revived the cast from previous Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre productions of the first two “Nunsense” shows: Judy Jarvis plays the  Rev. Mother with Jennifer Drake as Sister Hubert, Michelle Lewis as Sister Amnesia and Gina Johnson as Sister Mary Leo. Megan Peters, who was in the first GHCT production also returns as Sister Robert Anne.

The cast also includes Jim Ward as Father Virgil, and Kaleigh Howland, Colleen Ray, Zach Cobb, Anna Schindler and Brandon Hamilton as the children from Mt. St. Helen’s School. The Sisters’ Christmas special includes a variety of parodies, including commercials from the Home Shopping Network done the Catholic way and St. Victoria’s Secret.

“There’s one number that’s a take-off on the Village People, and the nuns do a commercial about joining the convent,” Ganz said. “The kids do ‘Santa’s Little Teapot’ in costumes that are just adorable.

“Jim Ward and Judy Jarvis play sugar plum fairies in ‘The Nutcracker’ that is worth the price of admission,” she said. “It’s seven minutes long, closes act one, and is the funniest thing they’ve ever done.”

• WHAT: “Nuncrackers” by Dan Goggin
• WHERE: Mad Anthony Theatre Company, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, 101 S. Monument Ave., Hamilton
• WHEN: 8 p.m. Nov. 29-Dec. 1; 2 p.m. Dec. 2.
• COST: $12 members; $15 non-members; $6 students
• MORE INFO: (513) 863-8873; www.fittoncenter.org