[Capdist-auditions] Costume Designer Needed for Always...Patsy Cline
JJ Buechner
togacub25 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 9 22:37:25 EDT 2009
The Local Actors Guild of Saratoga is looking for a costume designer to build two western outfits and alter a dress for our May production of Always...Patsy Cline. There is no pay involved only two comp tickets, but it is a great portfolio builder and a guaranteed fun time.
Contact JJ at togacub25 at yahoo.com for information.
Always...Patsy
Cline
is based on the true story of Patsy Cline's friendship with Houston housewife
Louise Seger.
Having first heard
Cline on the "Arthur Godfrey Show" in 1957, Seger became an
immediate and avid fan of Cline's and she constantly hounded the local
disc jockey to play Cline's records on the radio.
In 1961 when Cline went to Houston for a show, Seger and her buddies arrived
about an hour-and-a-half early and, by coincidence, met Cline who was
traveling alone. The two women struck up a friendship that was to culminate
in Cline spending the night at Seger's house--a friendship that lasted
until Cline's untimely death in a plane crash in 1963.
The relationship,
which began as fan worship evolved into one of mutual respect. It is the
kind of relationship that many fans would like to have with their heroes.
Over a pot of strong
coffee, the two women chatted about their common concerns. When Cline
finally left for Dallas, her next job, the two women had exchanged addresses
and telephone numbers. Seger never expected to hear from Cline again,
but soon after she left, Seger received the first of many letters and
phone calls from Cline. The pen-pal relationship provides much of the
plot of the show.
The play focuses on
the fateful evening at Houston's Esquire Ballroom when Seger hears of
Cline's death in a plane crash. 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.
The show combines
humor, sadness and reality. It offers fans who remember Cline while she
was alive a chance to look back, while giving new fans an idea of what
seeing her was like and what she meant to her original fans.
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