You can really feel the heartbreak between Katie and her parents.Īfter the shunning, we see Katie’s birth mother talking about how much she wants to find her daughter, and Katie making a call to find her birth mother. Very catchy and entertaining!ĭuring the shunning of Katie, the lights, music, and group with their backs to Katie, were very dramatic. The barn raising featured singing, dancing, and music made with brooms, washboards, and hammers. With the help and prayers of her Christian maidservant (played by Chonda Pierce), they try to foil Dylan’s plan and reunite Katie and Laura. Secretly plotting against her is the gold-digging husband Dylan (played by John Schneider), who is scheming to make sure he inherits her fortune. Meanwhile, her wealthy birth mother, Laura Mayfield, battling an illness that might take her life, begins searching for her long-lost daughter to bequeath her inheritance before it is too late. Katie decides to seek her birth mother, defying the rules of her Amish village and risking a shunning. Katie Lapp, a young Amish girl, discovers her parents have been keeping a secret from her… she is adopted. The Confession Musical is based on the New York Times best-selling book series “The Heritage of Lancaster County,” written by Beverly Lewis and written for the stage by Emmy-Nominated screenwriter Martha Bolton. As she seeks her birth mother, she has to overcome the obstacles of a lost fiancée, a shunning and a crafty gold-digger who seeks the fortune of her birth mother. Two worlds collide when a young Amish girl discovers she was adopted by a wealthy Christian family.

The shunning the confession