Always…Patsy Cline

Always…Patsy Cline is based on the true story of Patsy Cline’s friendship with Houston housewife and avid fan Louise Seger. In 1961, the two women struck up a friendship that lasted until Cline’s untimely death in a plane crash two years later.

After meeting Cline at a performance in Houston, Seger never expected to hear from the singer again. But soon after Cline 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 with down-home country humor.

The musical, combining humor, sadness and reality, 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 including “Anytime,” “Walkin’ After Midnight,” “She’s Got You,” “Sweet Dreams,” and “Crazy.”