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Go Tell It On the Mountain

November 14th - December 22nd at Barter's Smith Theatre

Cast List

Slab Boggs, Frank Molino, Suds Jensen, Harold Jensen, Daddy, Charles Dickens, Abner, Lloyd Drescher, Nanny, Santa #2, Angus MacAulay
Eugene Wolf*

Slab’s Mother, Arnette Combs, Mama, Santa #1, Junebug Jensen, Shirleen Sprinkle, Ginny Drain, Lana Chavies, The Lady, Mamaw
Carrie Smith Lewis*

Guitarist
Matt Martin

*Denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors, and Stage Managers in the United States.

Understudies never substitute for listed actors unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.

For the roles played by Eugene Wolf: Garrett Summitt

For the roles played by Carrie Smith Lewis: Kaci Deakins

Director's Note

We welcome you to this Christmas celebration that is Go Tell It On the Mountain.

Christmas is a time when we often look back and recall those who came before us. Our families, friends who have moved on or, are no longer with us. It is a time to take in the past and look to the future. One year ends, another begins.

All of the characters you will meet here today are looking back and looking forward. They seem to be reaching for something. Sometimes they know what they are reaching for and sometimes they do not know what they are reaching for but they are reaching for it anyway. One of the characters you will meet today uses the word, “yearning” to describe the feeling.

The mountains of Appalachia teem with the past. And so it is the same for the people who live here. Those who came before us stand beside us and send us into the future. We know that we are not the first in our line to have that “yearning” feeling we get when we look out at these mountains; mountains described by one of our characters as “Green waves on an ocean of earth, ancient and mysterious.” The “ancient” past compels us and the “mysterious” future entices us and we feel that yearning.

A merry Appalachian Christmas to all.

- John Hardy, Director of Go Tell It On the Mountain