Circuit Rider's Wife ...the Musical
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    • 1a - Sound of Grace
      • 1b - Sam's Testimony
        • 2 - Heat Up The Furnace
          • 3 - Tain't Orthydox
            • 4 - Cathedral in the Wild
              • 5 - Singing School
                • 6a - Confession
                  • 6b - Confession
                    • 7 - Come Home
                      • 8 - Home in Heaven
                        • 9 - One is not Enough
                          • 10 - Home Place of My Heart
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                          We had a total blast with rehearsals for CRW.  Every rehearsal we discovered something new. Thank you for such a fun piece of work.
                                                                                                           Bryan Essary, Chair of PAC, Arts in McNairy County, TN

                          SYNOPSIS

                          Music and dialogue show the hearts and minds of the folks of the Redwine Circuit.  Experience the ups and downs in Mary and William Thompson's first year of marriage in a conservative mountain community…

                           
                          • A Donation Party
                          • An “Experience Meetin”
                          • A Shaped-Note FASOLA Singing School
                          • A Country Quartet
                          • A Confession
                          • A Mountain Funeral Wake
                          • A Country Wedding
                          These folks may stay in your heart long
                          after the refrain of the finale has died away.  The characters are universal ... the story surprisingly contemporary.
                          Picture

                          Based on the book, “A Circuit Rider’s Wife” by Corra Harris (1869 – 1935). A major motion picture also based on the book was filmed in 1951 titled "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain," starring Susan Hayward, William Lundigan, and Rory Calhoun. 
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