Always...Patsy Cline

Friday, September 27, 2024 7:00 PM 19:00
Sunday, October 13, 2024 2:00 PM 14:00

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PHOENICIA PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS production of

Always…Patsy Cline

“Created and originally Directed by Ted Swindley – based on a true story“

Based on the true story of a pen-pal friendship set to the soundtrack of country’s most vibrant voice

Always…Patsy Cline is a true story about Cline’s friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk, and continued a correspondence with Cline until her untimely death in a plane crash. The show’s title was inspired by Cline’s letters to Seger, which were consistently signed “Love ALWAYS… Patsy Cline.” Tales of Patsy’s life on the road are told with down-home country humor and brought to vibrant life through her music. Seger supplies a narrative while Cline floats in and out of the set singing tunes that made her famous— “Anytime”, “Walkin’ After Midnight”, “She’s Got You”, “Sweet Dreams”, and “Crazy” — to name a few.

Directed By Ovi Vargas

Starring

Erin Hebert as Patsy Cline

Rebecca Brown Adelman as Louise Seger

and a LIVE HONKY TONK BAND!

Roman Pietrs - Rhythm Guitar

Allen Vella - Bass

Dave “Ace” Case - Lead Guitar

Stephen Olenski - Drums

Carrie Bradley - Violin

Jenni Cawein - Piano

Erin is an actress, singer, voice actress, and fight choreographer based in Poughkeepsie. Originally from Holyoke, Massachusetts, Erin graduated from Yale in 2018 before moving to the Hudson Valley, and she’s been hooked on the area ever since. Favorite stage roles include Fraulein Kost in Cabaret, Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda, Natalie in Next to Normal, Jenny in Boy, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, and Shakespeare in Something Rotten. Her most prominent voice acting role featured her as FBI agent Alexandria Thoman in the New York Times podcast “The Daily”, acting alongside Broadway alum Stephen Pasquale. She is excited to expand her menagerie of voices in this show.

Rebecca Brown Adelman’s local acting credits include: Jane in Richard Nelson’s Sweet and Sad, Agatha in Jen Silverman’s The Moors both with Performing Arts of Woodstock, Sarah Bernhardt in Theresa Rebeck’s Bernhardt/Hamlet at the Center for Performing Arts Rhinebeck, Julia Gibbs in Our Town and Tess in Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime both at the Phoenicia Playhouse. Beyond acting, Rebecca is an applied theatre practitioner, writer, director, and improviser. While living in Colorado, she was a longtime ensemble member of improvisational theatre companies Playback Theatre West and One Act. She is the co founder of a theatre for social change consulting company called Affinity Arts Consulting and travels around the country using theatre to facilitate dialogues and opportunities for communities to address important social justice issues. In the Hudson Valley, Rebecca is also an actor with Round the Bend Theatre Company and loves being a part of the new work process.

Friday, September 27th