Renaissance Center adds matinee for Always... Patsy Cline on June 27
Release Date: 6/20/2003. Expired: 6/27/2003
The Renaissance Center will present a special one-time senior matinee performance of Always... Patsy Cline at 2 p.m. Friday, June 27.
The show, which tells the story of friendship between the country music legend and a Texas fan, is the current production of the Gaslight Dinner Theatre, showing Friday and Saturday evenings in the center’s Performance Hall.
Because the production includes a live six-piece band of professional Nashville musicians, only one senior matinee performance is being offered. The special matinee will not include a meal. Tickets for patrons 55 and older are $15.
“Our Senior Lunch Theatres on previous productions have been extremely successful, selling out months in advance,” said Pacer Harp, managing director of the Gaslight Dinner Theatre and director of the show. “But because we have put together this professional band, we were unable to schedule the usual number of senior matinees because of the band members’ work schedules. However, we were able to secure this one date for a matinee performance.”
The Gaslight Dinner Theatre began offering 2-3 Senior Lunch Theatre matinees of each production shortly after it opened three years ago to accommodate senior patrons who preferred not to be out so late.
“With dinner and the productions we have offered, many shows didn’t end until 9:30 or 10 p.m. Many of our senior patrons requested that we offer matinees and they have become tremendously popular,” Harp said. “In fact, they are so popular that we will be offering more Senior Lunch Theatres in the 2003-04 season in the Gaslight Dinner Theatre. Each production will offer a senior matinee on every Friday during their run.
“From the very beginning, we wanted to offer at least one matinee performance of Always... Patsy Cline, but we have just now been able to work out all the conflicts of schedules and find a date for which everyone involved in the production is available.”
Written and originally directed by Ted Swindley, Always... Patsy Cline follows the friendship developed between Cline and Louise Seger, a Texan who met Cline at a Houston concert in 1961. Based on a true story, the production includes more than two dozen of Cline’s biggest hits performed live.
Elaine Sherrill, senior director of Music for The Renaissance Center, plays the country legend while Kim Leavitt, director of Theatre Education and Outreach and managing director of the Renaissance Players, portrays Louise Seger. The story details their friendship from the first time Seger saw Cline sing on the Arthur Godfrey Show until the night in March 1963 when she learns that Cline was killed in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn.
Since the show is almost as much concert as theatrical production, it is being presented in The Renaissance Center’s acoustically balanced Performance Hall, which seats 450. Tickets for the senior matinee on June 27 are $15 and are on sale now at the center’s box office. Credit card purchases can be made by calling (615) 740-5570.
Show-only tickets are available for the remaining weekend performances through June 28. All remaining dinner tickets are sold out and only show-only tickets remain for the final two weekends. Show-only tickets are $15 per person.
Always... Patsy Cline is being sponsored by Tennsco, manufacturer of metal office furniture for more than 40 years.
The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172. For more information, call (615)740-5600.
Visit the Gaslight Dinner Theatre page for more about dinner theatre.
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