Always... Patsy Cline performances set in August

The musical Always...Patsy Cline was first performed on a stage in Texas in 1988, and in honor of the show’s 30th anniversary, a local cast will present four performances of the show at the Aztec Theater this August.

Show dates are Friday, Aug. 10 and 17, and Saturday, Aug. 18 at 7:30 p.m., and a 2:30 matinee on Sunday, Aug. 12, with Lorna Ayers, Pam Davis, and The Bodacious Bobcat Band reprising the roles they’ve played several times before.

Tickets are $20 each for reserved seating on the first three rows. General admission seating is $15. 

To purchase tickets, call Tisha Wilkins at 325-660-7443.

“We have to pay a fee to put on the show, and sponsors have pledged to cover three of the performances,” Wilkins said. “We are hoping to get the fourth performance sponsored also. Any funds remaining after we cover our costs will go to the Aztec Theater.”

Ted Swindley wrote the musical based on a true story of a friendship between the country music star and a Houston housewife who met Cline in a Houston honky tonk. 

Ayers, Davis, and the band last took to the stage of the Aztec with Always...Patsy Cline in August of 2015, and they also performed the musical in 2005.

“They traveled the entire state with it in 2005,” said Wilkins. “They were fantastic!”

Patsy Cline was an American country music singer and part of the Nashville sound during the late 1950s and early 1960s. 

She successfully “crossed over” to pop music and was one of the most influential and acclaimed vocalists of the 20th century. 

She died at age 30 in the crash of a private airplane.