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Sanders Family Christmas

Alan Bailey, Gary Fagin, John Foley, Connie Ray

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Full Length Musical, Comedy

4m, 3f

ISBN: 9780573626449

Written by Connie Ray
Conceived by Alan Bailey
Musical Arrangements by John Foley and Gary Fagin

In this sequel to the ever popular New York hit Smoke on the Mountain, the Sanders family returns to Mount Pleasant, NC, home of the Mount Pleasant Pickle Factory. It's Christmas Eve, 1941.

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Description

Full Length Musical

Comedy

Theatre for Young Audiences, Christmas/Holiday, Period, Faith-based

105 Minutes

Time Period - 1940s / WWII

Settings Of Play - The sanctuary of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, located just west of Hickory near the Blue Ridge Mountains. Wednesday night, December 24, 1941, eighteen days after Pearl Harbor.

FEATURES / CONTAINS

Interior Set

Period Costumes

CAUTIONS

No Special Cautions

THEMES

Christianity, Parenting/Family, Religion, War

TARGET AUDIENCE

Appropriate for all audiences

PERFORMANCE GROUP

High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Dinner Theatre, Professional Theatre, Senior Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Church / Religious Groups

Sanders Family Christmas is the sequel to Connie Ray and Alan Bailey's wildly successful bluegrass gospel musical Smoke on the Mountain. It's December 24, 1941, and America is going to war. So is Dennis Sanders of the Sanders Family Singers. Join Pastor Mervin Oglethorpe and the rest of the Sanders Family as they send Dennis off with hilarious and touching stories and twenty-five Southern Gospel Christmas favorites.

Characters

CASTING

4m, 3f

CASTING ATTRIBUTES

Ensemble cast, Features Teens

CHORUS SIZE

No Chorus

MERVIN OGLETHORPE - pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, early 30s
BURL SANDERS - father, 40s
VERA - mother, 40s
STANLEY - uncle, 40s
DENNIS and DENISE - twins, 20s
JUNE - sister, mid-20s

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SIZE OF ORCHESTRA

Small/Combo

MUSICAL STYLE

Country/Western, Folk

VOCAL DEMANDS

Moderate

7 Piano/Vocal/Instrumenal Scores

Author(s)

Alan Bailey

Alan Bailey co-authored one of the country’s most frequently produced musicals, Smoke on the Mountain, which ran more than five hundred performances at the Lamb's Theatre in New York, garnering award nominations from the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation. It was named one of the ten best plays of the year by Time magazine, The New York Times, ... view full profile