Smoke on the Mountain September 19, 2010

Playhouse favorites Jason Ross, Bobby Taylor and Patty Payne, return for the 17th season of SMOKE! The trio has starred in the Appalachian musical on the CCP stage, the Ryman Auditorium, and on tour across the Southeast---and Bobby Taylor, who directs our 2010 production, led the cast as “Burl” for the New York Off-Broadway Revival, directed by co-creator Alan Bailey.

Also returning to the all-star cast is director/actor/musician Daniel Black, seen for the first time as Uncle Stanley, the tough ex-con who “comes home” to church and family. He is joined by Lauren Marshall as fiddlin’ Mama Vera, Leila Nelson as twin daughter Denise and Austin Price as her brother Dennis—all multi-year veterans of SMOKE.

“Our company has made SMOKE a real Tennessee tradition and we’re excited to reunite Jason, Bobby and Patty in the Playhouse cast one more time,” said Playhouse Producer and CEO Jim Crabtree in announcing the 2010 cast. “Playhouse alumni have helped bring SMOKE to the entire country in the nearly two decades of our production including New York, National Tours, and at theaters across the South, including the Ryman, Chattanooga’s Tivoli and Knoxville’s Bijou in Tennessee. The CCP production has also played in Memphis (Bartlett), Athens, Morristown, Greeneville, Cookeville, Newport, La Follette, and many other towns.”

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