This upsets the pious Miss Maude and Miss Myrtle (who are the only two known to be in attendance). The first act ends as June and Denise begin to 'dance' (a simple foot kick and hip slap of a tambourine). Burl is the patriarch, Stanley is Burl's brother, Vera is the family matriarch, Denise and Denis are fraternal twins, and June does interpretive signs. They start the service by singing ' The Church in the Wildwood' and introduces themselves to the congregation (A Wonderful Time Up There). The Sanders Family enters with great gusto, after revealing their automobile tipped over into a ditch after the whole family leaned to one side of the car to look at all the pickles floating downstream from the Mount Pleasant Pickle Factory.

Oglethorpe stalls for time by giving announcements.

Reverend Oglethorpe is forced to get the service going by playing 'Rock of Ages' for those in attendance. The Sanders Family is delayed from performing at the musical revival. The setting is in a Mount Pleasant, North Carolina Baptist church in 1938 and it revolves around the Sanders family. (Some productions have non-speaking players arrive as additional 'family members'.) Each character has a monologue and a featured song. The songs used in the production were mostly old hymns, with some original and anachronistic bluegrass songs mixed in.

The 1998 cast was as follows: Constance Barron as Vera Sanders, Sean Dooley as Dennis Sanders, Dionne McGuire Gardner as Denise Sanders, John Griffith as Stanley, Jonah Marsh as June Sanders, Robert Olsen as Pastor Mervin Oglethorpe, and Bobby Taylor as Burl Sanders. Presented by Carolyn Rossi Copeland and Marie B. The associate producer was Nancy Nagel Gibbs. Book by Connie Ray, conceived and directed by Alan Bailey, sets by Peter Harrison, lighting by Mary Jo Dondlinger, costumes by Pamela Scofield, musical direction by John Foley, musical arrangements by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick, production stage manager was Erika Feldman, and technical supervision by Joseph L.

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