{"id":40802208245,"date":"2018-07-25T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/event\/always-patsy-cline\/"},"modified":"2018-07-25T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:40:08","slug":"always-patsy-cline","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/event\/always-patsy-cline\/","title":{"rendered":"ALWAYS, PATSY CLINE"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALL REMAINING PERFORMANCES ARE SOLD OUT.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 July 6-9 and July 13-16 at 8 PM with Friday matinees at 2 PM on July 8 and 15
For the box office call 732.263.6889
\u00a0
<\/strong>Before Loretta and before Dolly, there was Patsy \u2013 Patsy Cline, whose hits like \u201cCrazy\u201d and \u201cSweet Dreams\u201d heralded the cross-over of country music and pop. This summer, Shadow Lawn Stage, the professional theatre in residence at Monmouth University, will present Ted Swindley\u2019s ode to her: Always, Patsy Cline<\/em>. <\/p>\n

The show tells Patsy\u2019s story through the eyes and words of Louise Seger, a Texas housewife who starts out as a Patsy fan, becomes a pen pal, and then blossoms into an incredible friendship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Starring as Patsy is Reagan Richards<\/strong>,
\na renowned singer in her own right, who has sung with music greats such as Les
\nPaul, Darlene Love, Ben E. King, Joan Jett, David Gray, Cheap Trick & many
\nothers. She is part of Williams Honor, the Jersey Shore\u2019s first modern country
\nduo, with multi-instrumentalist Gordon Brown. She begins work as Patsy in
\nbetween her national radio tour, where she supporting their single, “Send
\nIt To Me,” with performances all over the country celebrating the recent
\nrelease of their self-titled CD. Under the music direction of George Wurzbach \u2013
\nformerly of the folk group Modern Man and a member of the Monmouth faculty \u2013
\nMs. Richards will sing many of the Patsy Cline standards, including \u201cI Fall To
\nPieces\u201d, \u201cWalking After Midnight\u201d and 27 other tunes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under the direction of Maurice J. Moran, the role of Louise will be played by Katrina Ferguson<\/strong>, returning to Shadow Lawn after acclaimed performances in The Au Pair Man<\/em> and Molly Sweeney<\/em>. Ms. Ferguson recently won the Best Actress award at the Dorset Theatre Festival for her role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in Lion In Winter<\/em>. Louise tells her story by conjuring memories of where and when she fell in love with Cline\u2019s music: listening to the radio in her kitchen, meeting her at a local country bar, and seeing her live on stage with a band of country musicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALL REMAINING PERFORMANCES ARE SOLD OUT. Before Loretta and before Dolly, there was Patsy \u2013 Patsy Cline, whose hits like \u201cCrazy\u201d and \u201cSweet Dreams\u201d heralded the cross-over of country music and pop. This summer, Shadow Lawn Stage, the professional theatre in residence at Monmouth University, will present Ted Swindley\u2019s ode to her: Always, Patsy Cline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40802220921,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/New_York","_EventStartDate":"2016-07-06 20:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2016-07-16 23:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2016-07-07 00:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2016-07-17 03:00:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"$30; $20 (seniors, employee & alum); $10 students; $5 (MU students)","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[40802220006],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artseries":[15,135],"arts":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-40802208245","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artseries-arts-at-monmouth","artseries-shadow-lawn-stage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/40802208245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/40802208245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802220921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802208245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802208245"},{"taxonomy":"artseries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artseries?post=40802208245"},{"taxonomy":"arts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arts?post=40802208245"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=40802208245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}