SIERRA REPERTORY THEATRE - SANDERS FAMILY CHRISTMAS

It's Christmas Eve in 1941. The Depression is coming to a close, but 18 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the threat of war has just begun.

The Sanctified Sanders Family Singers are heading up the annual Christmas celebration at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, but they are about to say a bittersweet goodbye to their only son, who is shipping out with the Marine Corps.

Reverend Mervin Oglethorpe (who works part-time at the local pickle plant) and the Sanders family attempt to raise the spirits of their faithful flock (the audience) in a rousing, hilarious and heart-warming Christmas gospel sing-along of cherished holiday hymns and carols.

There's Uncle Stanley the family's patriarch, Burl, and his Scripture-quoting wife, Vera the twins Dennis and Denise and their sister June (she doesn't sing, she signs).