Press Release

For additional information

Please contact:

Neil Thackaberry

330-374-7568

 

Actors’ Summit, Akron’s professional theater, announces that the four week run 

of ALWAYS . . . PATSY CLINE, based on a true story and written by Ted Swindley, has 

been extended by two weeks.

 The show opened Friday night, May 29. ALWAYS . . . PATSY CLINE  is now scheduled to perform through Sunday, July 5.  The added performances will be given Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 P.M. and Sundays at 2 PM, and take place at Greystone Hall, in downtown Akron.  The show is appropriate families. 

“With sold out and nearly sold out performances, with the raves of both critics 

and audience members, we just didn’t want to let ‘Patsy’ go,” said MaryJo Alexander, 

director of the production and Artistic Co-Director of Actors’ Summit. 

Over a pot of strong coffee, two women chat about their common concerns. 

When one of them, Patsy Cline finally left for Dallas, 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 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 

sings the songs 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.

The show features Jennifer Browning as Patsy Cline, Chanda Porter as Louise Serger, with musical direction by JT Buck. Alex Briski stage manages, and MaryJo Alexander directs.

Links to reviews for the show are available at the theater's website and facebook page.

Tickets for ALWAYS . . . PATSY CLINE  are on sale now through the box office 

at 330-374-7568 and online at www.actorssummit.org.  Tickets for all  performances: 

$33 for adults, $28 for seniors over 65; and $10 for all full time students under 30.  

Special discounts are available for groups.

The theater is located on the sixth floor of historic Greystone Hall in downtown Akron. 

The facility is completely handicap accessible and has free parking. 

More information is available at the Actors’ Summit website: www.actorssummit.org.