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tickets Thursday night only! Limit 4 tickets. Available at the box office at
7:30 PM. No reservations.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;page-break-after:avoid;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Actors'
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:City> get the
spirit of Christmas in respective productions: Tony Brown reviews<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Monday, December 08, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Go tell it on the mountain: Christmastime is here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>It's here in small-town <st1:City w:st="on">Hudson</st1:City>,
where Actors' <st1:City w:st="on">Summit</st1:City> also just opened
"Sanders Family Christmas," set in rural <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Carolina</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>It’s a church celebration set on Christmas Eve,
packed with gospel music, and just the joy to bring us together.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>'Sanders
Family'</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>At Actors' <st1:City w:st="on">Summit</st1:City>, the
Sanders Family of deep-believing musicians gathers on Christmas Eve 1941 (right
after Pearl Harbor) in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Mount
Pleasant</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Baptist</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Sanderses, fans of playwrights Connie Ray and Alan
Bailey will remember, are the same clan that sings spirituals in the popular
"Smoke on the Mountain." They do bluegrass-gospel, with banjos and
fiddles, not electric bass and drums.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>And when they aren't singing, they're witnessing to
their faith. But unlike "Black Nativity," this come-to-Jesus show is
tinged with irony; these believers have a sense of humor about faith.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>There are 21 musical numbers over two acts sung and
played by a seven-member cast, directed by MaryJo Alexander and led by the
affable Dana Hart on two twangy instruments, mandolin and fiddle.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>It's all good. It's all Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Through Sunday, Dec. 21, at 86 Owen Brown St., Hudson.
$25-$28. 330-342-0800, or www.actorssummit.org.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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