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First Baptist of Ivy Gap March 27 - June 14 A beautiful Southern comedy. Meet the women of a small town Tennessee Baptist church during WWII and again a generation later. This wonderful comedy has heart and drama and features ‘six of the most wonderful characters’ you’ll ever meet! First Baptist was held over and sold out last season. Reserve your seats early! $23 Adults/$22 Seniors (62 and over) |
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Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming April 10 - November 5 The Sanders family returns to the Playhouse for the 15th season, and returns to Mt. Pleasant Baptist after WWII in 1946. Denise is married with twins (not in Hollywood!), June and Mervyn are expecting (and moving out west), Dennis has been called to be pastor of Mt. Pleasant Baptist, Vera and Stanley still squabble, Burl referees, they all sing and play great bluegrass and gospel music, God’s in His heaven and all’s right with the world. Sponsored by First National Bank of Tennessee $23 Adults/$22 Seniors (62 and over) |
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Flight of the Lawnchair Man May 15 - July 11 American Heartland Premiere! A warm and wonderful musical about a young man who tires of his ordinary suburban life, dreams of taking flight to adventure, and follows his dream! Even officious airline and government officials, (or his worried mother) can’t deter him and the girl he loves! Jim Crabtree fell in love with the show, the hit of a recent New York Festival of the National Alliance for Musical Theater, and brings it to us for its first professional production outside New York or LA---the American Heartland Premiere of an extraordinary musical about dreams, imagination and joy. Sponsored by Crossville, Inc. $22 Adults/$21 Seniors (62 and over) |
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Disney's Beauty and the Beast June 20 - August 24 Our glorious production’s sets and costumes have been seen from coast to coast, but they’re home for the summer! Join Belle’s adventures with Mrs. Potts, Lumiere, Gaston, Cogsworth, flirty Babbette (oo-la-la!) and the fearful but lonely Beast himself. All the joy, majesty and magic you remember, plus new touches we’ve dreamed up! Tale as Old as Time, Song as Old as Rhyme, See it Thrice at Least, Beauty and the Beast! Sponsored by Looney & Chadwell Title Services $30 Adults/$29 Seniors (62 and over) |
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The Pirates of Penzance July 25 - August 31 A frothy voyage into G&S-Land, full of masterful song, madcap comedy, and pirates(!), more pirates! Can Johnny Depp be far behind, pursuing maidens with his dastardly crew?! Ahoy, avast, and arrrrgh, mateys, please yo-ho himself, the Pirate King! Eyepatch optional but encouraged for all ages. $24 Adults/$23 Seniors (62 and over) |
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Smoke on the Mountain August 14 - November 4 The great old favorite returns for its 15th consecutive season of bluegrass, Gospel, testimony, tomfoolery, singin’, signin’ and celebratin’. Denise and Dennis are 16 again, June and Mervyn haven’t sparked yet, Stanley’s right outa prison and Vera’s outa sorts. Burl, of course, referees. Miss Maude and Miss Myrtle sit disapprovingly in the Amen Corner, but they finally come around to enjoy fiddles and banjos and even Denise’s airs. Pastor Oglethorpe about has a conniption, flirts with both girls, but finally settles on June. June doesn’t sing, she signs. And the sun also rises, again, on this treasure of Southern Mountain heritage, faith, and music. Sponsored by Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores $23 Adults/$22 Seniors (62 and over) |
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South Pacific September 11 - October 24 On “Some Enchanted Evening”, with the nation at war across the globe, a European gentleman encounters a “little hick” of an American country girl—a navy nurse in the South Pacific who says she’s as “corny as Kansas in August.”. Though their customs collide, he discovers (like the sailors) that “There’s Nothing Like a Dame” to sweep even a widower off his feet—except perhaps the magical island of “Bali H’ai.” A wartime romance, set in paradise, with the threat of danger never far. A magnificent musical journey into America’s past—so much like the present. Sponsored by Comfort Suites, Holiday Inn Express, and Hampton Inn $24 Adults/$23 Seniors (62 and over) |
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Crowns October 10 - November 22 In this celebration of the spirit, the Sunday hats and customs of black women are a springboard into memory, Southern traditions, and history. A young African-American woman comes South to stay with her aunt, after her brother dies on a New York street. At first, she feels strange among traditional black women in hats and gloves, not jeans and ball caps, whose music is of the church, not street rap. Stories of hats and church, of manners and family, weave this city girl and the women into hymns of praise and songs of hope, recalling African turbans and rituals, hats of bygone eras, New Testament lessons and anthems, spirituals of slavery, faith, freedom and joy. $22 Adults/$21 Seniors (62 and over) |
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A Sanders Family Christmas Occtober 23 - December 20 Returning for the 8th season, Sanders Family Christmas joins Smoke and Homecoming, with all three shows running simultaneously for the first time anywhere, for two full weeks. Then Sanders Family Christmas continues, with its rib-tickling, heartwarming blend of holiday song and bluegrass style, as the family celebrates the season and welcomes the Savior, and Mervyn plans a surprise. Sponsored by Cumberland County Bank $23 Adults/$22 Seniors (62 and over) |
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas October 31 - December 21 Based on the beloved, timeless film, this heartwarming musical adaptation features seventeen Irving Berlin songs. Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil’s former army commander. The dazzling score features well known standards including Blue Skies, I Love A Piano, How Deep Is the Ocean and the perennial favorite, White Christmas. Sponsored by M. Stewart Galloway, M.D., Cumberland Eye Care $26 Adults/$25 Seniors (62 and over) |
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The Nutcracker December 4 - 8 Sponsored by Playhouse Education Sponsor: $18 Adults/$17 Seniors (62 and over) |
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