Peter Pan
The Broadway Family Musial by Carolyn Leigh, Adolph Green and Betty Comden, with music by Jule Styne and Mark Charlap. Based on the classic story by J.M. Barrie.

A special Playhouse student/volunteer production, with magnificent scenery by Joe Varga, entirely staged, choreographed and created by our professional staff.

February 1 - April 13

Peter Pan never grows up, and always lives in the hearts of children, families, and all who recall the joy of being young. We sing "I'm Flying!" and take flight with Peter and his friends, and do battle with the wildest Pirates this side of the Carribbean, in our classic production, returning for the first time since 1990. The Playhouse kids, teens, and volunteers lead us to Neverland, complete with fabulous onstage flying!

Sponsored by Dr. Stanley Bise, M.D. &
Playhouse Education Sponsor Hughes Real Estate Services

$20 Adults/$19 Seniors (62 and over)
$17 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$11 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

Disney's High School Musical
Book by David Simpatico. Songs by Matthew Gerrard & Robbie Nevil, Ray Cham, Greg Cham & Andrew Seeley; Randy Petersen & Kevin Quinn; Andy Dodd & Adam Watts; Bryan Louiselle; David N. Lawrence & Faye Greenberg; Jamie Houston. Music Adapted, Arranged, & Produced by Bryan Louiselle.
Based on a Disney Channel Origianl Movie Written by Peter Barsocchini

February 29 - April 26

Young America’s favorite musical returns in rep for a LIMITED RUN
featuring all the great songs, dances, games and fun of the TV musical, new
Playhouse production bells and whistles, and dozens of kids and teens trained in our programs! You can’t hold them back , and we CAN’T hold the show over this time, so get your tickets NOW!

Sponsored by Playhouse Education Sponsor:
Hughes Real Estate Services

$20 Adults/$19 Seniors (62 and over)
$17 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$11 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

First Baptist of Ivy Gap
By Ron Osbourne

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)
$20 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$13 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming
By Connie Ray and Alan Bailey

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)
$20 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$13 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

New York State of Mind
CCP Dance & Theater Education Program

May 1 - 4

Take a trip to the Big Apple with the CCP Dance and Theater Education
Program! Jump on the subway as we travel to the Lincoln Center of
Performing Arts for ballet, the Museum of Modern Art for modern dance, to
Harlem for jazz and tap, and to Broadway to present parts from well known
musicals.

Sponsored by Playhouse Education Sponsor:
Hughes Real Estate Services

$18 Adults/$17 Seniors (62 and over)
$16 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$10 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

Flight of the Lawnchair Man
Book by Peter Ullian; Music and Lyrics by Robert Lindsey-Nassif
Based on a concept by Robert Lindsey-Nassif

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)
$19 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$12 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
By composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman

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
Kenneth and Carol Ann Chadwell

$30 Adults/$29 Seniors (62 and over)
$27 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$15 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

The Pirates of Penzance
Libretti by W.S. Gilbert, Music by Arthur Sullivan

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)
$21 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$14 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

Smoke on the Mountain
By Connie Ray and Alan Bailey

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)
$20 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$13 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

South Pacific
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Book by Oscar Hammerstein and Joshua Logan.
Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel “Tales Of The South Pacific” by James Michener.

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)
$21 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$14 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

Crowns
By Regina Taylor, from the book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry.

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)
$19 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$12 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

A Sanders Family Christmas
Conceived by Alan Bailey; Written by Connie Ray

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)
$20 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$13 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Based upon the Paramount Pictures Film
Written for the screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Book by David Ives and Paul Blake

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)
$23 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$13 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.

The Nutcracker
Created by Tchaikovsky and Petipa, for Russia’s Kirov Ballet.

December 4 - 8

With superb Guest Soloists and featuring our dance faculty and advanced
students, this Nutcracker captures the holiday magic of the great Kirov
traditions, as recreated by our Dance Directors Eldar Valiev and Lilia Valieva, trained at the Kirov Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. An international classic, beautifully danced and staged, right here at home.

Sponsored by Playhouse Education Sponsor:
Hughes Real Estate Services

$18 Adults/$17 Seniors (62 and over)
$16 Groups (15 or more Adults/Seniors)
$10 Children/Students
Includes a service/facility charge of $3.