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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">A country-western song can take you from
hello to heartache in just under three minutes.<SPAN
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style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">So it is
little wonder that the songs and story of country singer Patsy Cline can be
covered in just two 45-minute acts in </SPAN></EM><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Ted
Swindley’s <EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">“Always… Patsy Cline,”
currently on stage at Actors’ Summit in Akron.<SPAN
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Actually, this jukebox musical is more about
the performance of the songs (including such hits as “Back in Baby’s Arms,”
“Walkin’ After Midnight,” “I Fall to Pieces” and “Crazy”) than the story.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nothing is learned about the music
itself and little is learned about Patsy Cline (Jennifer Browning) outside of
the 24 hours she spends with the show’s direct address narrator, Louise Seger
(Chanda K. Porter).<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></EM></P>
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style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Seger is a
fan who happens to befriend Cline before a performance a</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">t the Esquire Ballroom in Houston in 1961, just as Cline is
getting famous and two years before the singer would die tragically in a plane
crash at the age of 30.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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