Smoke on the Mountain is the most produced play in America [more than 3,000 times] and a husband and wife team from Louisiana are bringing it here to their home state.
ALEXANDRIA – Smoke on the Mountain is the most produced play in America [more than 3,000 times] and a husband and wife team from Louisiana are bringing it here to their home state.
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday (April 3-5) in the Alexandria Senior High Auditorium, Ross and Karen Schexnayder will present this hilariously funny and inspirational show.
“It is a musical comedy about Southern Baptists,” said Ross Schexnayer, who along with his wife Karen, have come home after completing an extended national tour with the Cumberland County Playhouse, to start the Lagniappe Theatre Company. “Karen and I are both from Louisiana. I am from Baton Rouge and she is from Alexandria.
“When we returned home we decided to begin a professional theatrical production company dedicated to preserving, developing, and redefining live theatre in Louisiana.”
And the Schexnayder’s have selected Smoke on the Mountain as their company’s first production.
“The year is 1938 on a Saturday evening in Mount Pleasant, N.C.,” Schexnayder says, “and Rev. Oglethorpe has invited the Sanders Family Singers to provide an evening of uplifting singing and witnessing.
“He is new at the church and a little apprehensive how the Sanders will be received. But the singers provide an uplifting evening of singing and witnessing. The show features more than two dozen songs and hymns and numerous hilarious stories.
“We have invited many of our friends from across the country to perform in the play,” Schexnayder said. “And we believe people who see it will laugh, sing and cry.”
The seven cast members are all very talented and play a variety of musical instruments as well as sing.
“It has been very well received across the country,” Schexnayder said. “We have gotten a lot of support from local Baptist churches and the response to the play has been overwhelmingly positive.”
Showtimes are at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $12 a person or $10/person for groups of 10 or more.
For more information call 318.730.4067 or go online to info@lagniappetheatre.com.