A SANDERS FAMILY CHRISTMAS Returns for 12th Year to Cumberland County Playhouse

The Sanders Family of Smoke on the Mountain trilogy fame returns to Crossville's Cumberland County Playhouse November 18 for their 12^th season of A Sanders Family Christmas, taking audiences back to Mt Pleasant Baptist Church to celebrate Christmas 1941, just weeks after Pearl Harbor, for  their final Saturday night singing before Dennis reports for basic training. The Sanders Family will share songs and testimonies; all the while Preacher Oglethorpe continues his pursuit of June (played by CCP favorites Jason Ross and Patty Payne). 

Bobby Taylor, who led the cast as "Burl" for the New York Off-Broadway Revival, directed by co-creator Alan Bailey, will be directing CCP's 2011 production, as well as playing Daddy Burl. Also returning to the all-star cast is Daniel Black, as Uncle Stanley, Lauren Marshall as fiddlin' Mama Vera, Emily Woods as twin daughter Denise and Austin Price as her brother Dennis. 

A Sanders Family Christmas, is rated "G" and is guaranteed "great fun for the whole family," according to a press release.

Currently at The Playhouse is Fiddler on the Roof, running through December; The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, playing through December 17. Upcoming shows include Christmas Blessings, December 15-17. 

You can purchase tickets for all Playhouse productions, plus selected concerts at Crossville's Palace Theater, performances by Cookeville Children's Theater and Southern Stars Symphonic Brass, online at www.ccplayhouse.com or by calling (931) 484-5000.  

Pictured (back to front, left to right): Daniel Black, Bobby Taylor, Lauren Marshall, Jason Ross, Leila Nelson, Patty Payne and Austin Price in the 2010 production of A Sanders Family Christmas.