In the scene where Whoopie askd them to sing "Mary Had a Little Lamb," about four students sing it. When she asks the blonde girl to sing, she says she doesn't know "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Yet she just heard four people sing it, so why wouldn't she know it? [You can hear a song on the radio, but that doesn't mean you've now got it committed to memory, especially if you're nervous.]

In the singing contest at the end, Sister Mary Clarence says that the kids should be comfortable. When the choir goes out, Frankee and Sketch are doing back-flips and other acrobatics. Later on in the song, they are all dancing as they are singing. Can you imagine them doing all that in robes? And even if it was a last minute plan, how would they all know what to do? [You can see them rehersing the dance routine backstage. While they are all getting ready you can see some of the choir practising the arm waves and such. The flips could have been simply improvised as they go on.]

When the kids get onto the bus to go to Hollywood they're all in school uniform. When they're getting ready to go on stage, they're all in uniform or robes. Right before they go on stage the stagehand tells the children to take off their robes. The scene then switches to the other side of the stage where we see Whoopi tell the kids that if they're going to go on stage they're going to go on feeling comfortable and that they're to wear anything they want. At this point though, the song has already started so the kids have very little time. All of them somehow manage to get changed into hip trendy outfits in practically no time at all (and none of them took luggage onto the bus) and Rita, who is singing already even has an outfit under her robe although she didn't know she was going to be told to take her robe off. And while it's often permissable to wear informal comfortable clothing under choir robes, we see the choir members in the dressing room just prior to their performance - not many seem to be wearing the same clothes they show up in moments later onstage. [They were already wearing the clothes under the robes, so they just had to take the robes off. They would have changes into these clothes the same time they put the robes on, as you can see one or two of the kids have normal clothes on while getting ready and their robes are open still. As for luggage, they all take bags with them, remember they are staying over night there (they have to raise money for a hotel) and you see at least Rita with a bag, as well as one or two others.]

At the beginning of the "Joyful, Joyful" performance, Rita stalls twice before she actually starts to sing. If you look in the background, you will see the girl who is supposed to be doing the sign language doesn't do anything. But on the third time, she starts to sign before Rita even begins to sing, how did she know that Rita would actually start singing the third time? [When something like this happens there is usually a cue that the two will go by to note that something is going to happen. It is a safe bet to say that the girl doing sign language knew not to do the sign language until Rita brings the microphone up to sing. If you notice the first two times Rita kept it low, but the third time she brings it up and the girl in the background follows suit a second afterwards. (The girl was looking at Rita for the cue to start.)]

All choirs except for the lead singers do not have microphones in the Hollywood contest. Yet everyone has the same amount of voice of the St Francis Choir even during jumping around and showing their backs to the stage. [There are normally microphones off to the side to bring out a projection of the choir voice. If you remember from the first time they sang as a choir the lead singer had to learn to project to the audience without the aid of a mic. It is possible that the other individual voices knew that they had to project well to be heard. This is common practice in choirs (and theater productions) where it is harder to have microphones on stage or not enough microphones to go around.]

In the scene where Whoopi Goldberg is in front of the music class for the first time, she tells the boys to take their caps off and they do so. When the girl who is rebelling wants the others to leave the class, she goes to the front and asks them if they will follow her and the boy at the front has his cap back on. [When Rita gets up to leave and tries to get everyone else to join her, the guys put there caps back on, then when they decide to stay they take them back off.]

In the scene where the class is about to perform their final song for the competition, Rita and the piano guy are both wearing their robes on stage but when the song changes tempo both have changed out of their robes, they would not have had time to do this. [Rita would have had time to remove her robe - when the rest of the choir entered the stage, she had to go put her mic down and could have taken hers off just offstage at that time. I assume that's also when the piano player took his off; how he did so and kept playing is the real mystery.]