Smoke on the Mountain tells the hilarious and heartwarming story of a Saturday Night Gospel Sing at a country church in North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains in 1938. The show features two dozen rousing bluegrass songs played and sung by the Sanders Family, a traveling group making its return to performing after a five-year hiatus.

PERFORMANCE DATES: September 21 – October 14, 2000

CAST: Rev. Mervin Oglethorpe – Joe Walker, June Sanders – Dee Dee Royle, Burl Sanders – Jim Johnson, Vera Sanders – Denis Ann Bamberger, Stanley Sanders – Kelly Carroll, Dennis Sanders – Kyle Hager, Denise Sanders – Kristina Morgan, Cousin Earl – Alan Stukenholtz

CREW: Director – Don Steele, Light Design – Paul D. Marshall, Costume Design – Dee Miller, Sign Language Coach – Sharon Grice

MENU: Salad, BBQ pork, potato casserole, succotash and black eyed peas, buttermilk biscuits, caramel apple purse.  Catering provided by Linda Bethke, Andrea Bethke, Linda Owens, Kathy Morgan, Steve Morgan, Pete Bethke, Andrew Mortimer, Barb Duesing, Faye Trent, Milly White, Carla Stukenholtz

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