
Always-Patsy Cline the production kicking off the 2015-2016 season at the Sierra Madre Playhouse officially opens this weekend to a sold out crowd. SOLD OUT.
As a board member I’m involved in a lot of aspects behind the scene’s. JozJozJoz, metblogs/blogging.la CEO is an official tweeter for the L.A. Opera and that was the germ of the idea for the blogathon for the soft opening, last rehearsal of Always-Patsy Cline. But more on that a bit later.
This is a wonderful story of an overly zealous fan and the star she adored becoming accidental friends and pen pals. The play itself is about how Louise Seger, a Houston housewife played by Nikki D’Amico who is best characterized as a spitfire hellcat fun loving divorcee, reminiscing over the night she first heard Pasty Cline on the radio and how she followed her career until they met a club outside Houston. They became best of friends, Louise and Pasty became penpals and wrote each other until Patsy’s untimely death at the age of 30. Those letters to Louise ended with the salutation “Always-Patsy Cline”. That story, and the story of Patsy’s life are intertwined and told through 27 songs by Patsy Cline beautifully recreated by Cori Cable Kidder and backed up by a live band. Continue reading Always-Patsy Cline and the blogathon soft open