That simple intimacy, coupled with Cline’s music, gives the play something special, McLaughlin said. And I think the letter is especially moving in that context of this just simple, intimate friendship.” “And it humanizes this celebrity - and now, in our age, this icon, this legend - and it reminds us there’s humanity under all of this. “And the thought that one of the biggest stars in America was writing to a friend and saying, ‘Oh I’ve got to get back to my ironing,’ is such a human thing,” McLaughlin said. They show draws on the real letters exchanged between to the two women and ends with the reading of one such letter, which Cline concluded by saying she needed to get back to ironing some clothes. Os Galindo Actor Kelley Peters as Patsy Cline in the 35th anniversary production of “Always…Patsy Cline” at Stages Houston. And I think that’s really one of the qualities I’ve always responded to in the play.” “And they found in each other that bond that allowed them to kind of celebrate who they were together. “They were in a space that didn’t really respect or honor that,” he said. And Cline was touring and rising as a star. Seger was divorced and raising her kids as a single mother. He says both women were ahead of their time in the 1960s. Kenn McLaughlin, the current artistic director at Stages and director of the show, told Houston Matters host Craig Cohen that Cline was known to write letters with her fans, but her connection with Seger became a deeper friendship. And the show is back on stage there for the eighth time and recently kicked off Stages’ 45th season. The friendship and letters exchanged between Cline and Seger are the basis of a musical called Always…Patsy Cline, which debuted in 1988 at Stages Houston and was written by the organization’s founding artistic director Ted Swindley. The two hit it off and began exchanging letters for the next couple years until the country music legend’s untimely death in a plane crash at the age of 30. Before the gig, a fan named Louise Seger struck up a conversation with the country singer.
In 1961, Patsy Cline was playing a show at a Houston honky tonk.
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