Smoke on the Mountain
Lamb's Players reprises its hit show. In Connie Ray's comedy-musical, Pastor Oglethorpe's taking a giant step: his Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church will have singing on Saturday night. Doesn't sound all that daring today, but it's 1938, and the church's largest donors, Miss Maude and Miss Myrtle, insist that singing leads to dancing, and dancing is a SIN. For his first performing group, the Pastor chose the chaos-prone Sanders Family Singers. They haven't been together in five years, but once they get going, they almost raise the roof. The material in act 1 is pretty slight, but Smoke grows and deepens beyond mere entertainment. Kudos to director Kerry Meads, musical director Chris O'Byron, and the outstanding seven-person cast, each of whom plays several instruments. Nick Spear and Deborah Gilmour Smyth do one of the saddest and funniest monologues around. Colleen Kollar Smith shines as plain, soft-spoken Jane. It's hard to imagine anyone, anywhere doing this show better.
Critic's pick.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, September 19, 2010
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm |
| Wednesdays, 7:30pm |
| Thursdays, 7:30pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 4pm & 8pm |