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Article: ALWAYS PATSY CLINE; The story of a music legend
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- Boise Weekly
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- July 22, 2003
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Always ... Patsy Cline is far more intriguing than your average musical because it's based on a true story and not some cockamamie plot peppered by a handful of catchy songs. Hailey's Company of Fools has done a bang-up job with their current production of Always ... Patsy Cline, importing two superb Southern actresses who couldn't be more appropriately cast.
Debra Wagoner plays Patsy Cline for the third time in her career and with good reason--she physically resembles Cline quite a bit and well, as my cousin from New York touted, "she's got some set of pipes." The role of Cline requires Wagoner to sing 27 songs over the course of two hours, and she miraculously performs each with as much ...