Always…Patsy Cline opens January 8 at the Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater. Tickets are available by calling (909) 626- 1254. Make plans now to take in this hand-clapping, toe tapping evening of fun, nostalgia and mesmerizing talent.    

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Certainly every country music fan knows Patsy Cline as a phenomenal singer who pioneered the rise of female country stars. More importantly, at a time when country and pop music were a twain that almost never met, Patsy was the first female country singer to achieve a pop hit in Walkin’ After Midnight, the first of many crossover successes.  Music fans of every persuasion were captivated by the astonishing liquidity and richness of Patsy’s voice.  Patsy was the youngest inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame, honored the year she would have been only 41 years old.  And everybody knows that Patsy Cline is a part of the list of young vibrant performers taken from the world too soon by a tragic accident.  Since her 1963 death at the age of 30, in a plane crash, Patsy Cline’s memory and talent have been revered by lovers of music everywhere.

More than forty five years after her death, there is finally an opportunity for fans to experience the magic of a live performance, if not by Patsy Cline herself, by a singer/actress endowed with the wonderful ability to bring her to life. Performing from January 8 – February 7 at the Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater is the artfully forged and carefully cast stage production Always…Patsy Cline.

Back by popular demand is the story of country music star Patsy Cline.  Always…Patsy Cline stars Lisa Layne in her reprise role and Candlelight favorite Beth Mendoza as Louise.  All of Patsy Cline’s hits, Crazy, Walkin’ After Midnight, She’s Got You, Sweet Dreams, I Fall to Pieces and 22 other Cline tunes, are performed live by Lisa Layne, accompanied by a live band.

Layne began singing professionally at the age of four. She started her own country band just after graduation from high school, singing and playing bass.  Layne joined “Vince Vance and the Valiants,” traveling and performing across the country with this group until 1989 when she recorded with VVV in Nashville, TN what has become the most requested Christmas song of all time, “All I want for Christmas is You.”

She signed with CCR records in Nashville, and still travels the country performing as Patsy Cline in productions of both Always…Patsy Cline and A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline for over a decade. Lisa has performed concerts nationwide in numerous country, variety and legend shows.

Don’t miss the limited engagement featuring Layne’s talent in LISA LIVE! at the Candlelight Pavilion only January 2 & 3, 2010.  Put on your dancing shoes and kick up your heels while enjoying an evening of country music, complete with the sounds of classic and contemporary hits.  Patrons are invited to wear their best country duds and join in the line-dancing for this exclusive hometown hoedown!
 
The fabulous and heartfelt musical tribute Always…Patsy Cline was the creation writer & director Ted Swindley.  Nationally recognized since 1990, Swindley continues to enjoy the warm reception of Always…Patsy Cline performed throughout the world.  The production is based on the true story of Patsy Cline’s friendship with Houston housewife Louise Seger.  Seger’s role is perfectly portrayed by long time Candlelight patron favorite Beth Mendoza.  “Although Patsy may never be replaced, I’m so thankful to reprise a role that tributes her spirit and celebrates of the music of her life,” says Mendoza.  Layne and Mendoza will sport their country dudes once again for only 5 weeks.  Don’t let this incredible depiction of legendary country music pass you by!

Always…Patsy Cline opens January 8 at the Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater. Tickets are available by calling (909) 626- 1254. Make plans now to take in this hand-clapping, toe tapping evening of fun, nostalgia and mesmerizing talent.