Video auditions open for Marietta play

Video auditions are open for “Smoke on the Mountain” to be presented during September at the Strand Theatre on the Marietta Square.

The play 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 bluegrass songs played and sung by the Sanders family, a traveling group making its return to performing after a five-year break.

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