Church Basement Ladies

Church Basement Ladies is a musical theatre series, based on a musical with book by Jim Stowell and Jessica Zuehlke, music and lyrics by Drew Jansen. The series surrounds a group of women that work in their local church basement cooking meals for religious events and functions. The original production and subsequent entries in the series are based on the book Growing Up Lutheran by Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson, published in 1997. In addition to Growing Up Lutheran, Martin and Nelson, under the name of "Those Lutheran Ladies", have written other works, including Growing Up Rural, published in 2017.