VGCC's Dinner Theater - Smoke on the Mountain

Vance-Granville Community College is excited to announce its third annual Dinner Theater! There’s “Smoke on the Mountain” and that “smoke” guarantees a great evening of entertainment and dining. VGCC’s Drama and Culinary Arts departments are teaming up once again to present a delicious meal followed by an entertaining play. Following last year’s drama, “An Inspector Calls,” and the previous year’s production of “Our Town,” this year’s Dinner Theater is the first-ever musical.


“Smoke on the Mountain” (written by Connie Ray and conceived by Alan Bailey) tells the story of a Saturday night “Gospel Sing” at a country church in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains in 1938. The show features two dozen rousing bluegrass songs played and sung by the Sanders Family, a traveling group making its return to performing after a five-year hiatus. Pastor Oglethorpe, the young and enthusiastic minister of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, has enlisted the Sanders Family in his efforts to bring his tiny congregation into "the modern world." Between songs, each family member "witnesses" — telling a story about an important event in his or her life. Though they try to appear perfect in the eyes of a congregation who wants to be inspired by their songs, one thing after another goes awry and they reveal their true — and hilariously imperfect — natures.