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Topic: question about the patsy cline showcase play |
Joseph Barcus
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Volga West Virginia
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Russ Wever
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Kansas City
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Posted 11 Mar 2010 9:26 pm |
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| . . the Patsy Cline showcase play. |
what is the Patsy Cline showcase play?
There are three stage productions that
are licensed by the Cline estate.
One is named "A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline.
Another is named "Patsy!" and the third
is named "Always . . Patsy Cline".
~Russ
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Joseph Barcus
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Volga West Virginia
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Bill Ladd
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Wilmington, NC, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 5:21 am
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| I've done that show twice Mr. Barcus. Lemme go through my stuff and I'll dig out the song list for you. |
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Bill Ladd
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Wilmington, NC, USA
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Don Drummer
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 6:22 am
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| Joe, ask the Music Director for a video copy of a production. There are some out there and can be a great help to you. Don D. |
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Ronald Sikes
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Corsicana, Tx
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 7:27 am
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Joseph , I've done the "Always Patsy Cline " show several times . If I can help let me know .
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 8:05 am
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Joseph:
Here's the show's running order:
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Act one:
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Overture:
Bb 'Honky Tonk Angels'
Fiddle has intro:
a two-note pick-up into the turnaround (5511)
After first time through the tempo doubles witha drum fill and we're off....
2) (A) Honky Tonk Merry-Go-Round
Segue:
3) (Ab-A) Back In Baby's Arms
4Segue:
4) (A-Bb) Anytime
5) (B-C) Walking After Midnight
6) (Bb) I Fall To Pieces
7) (Bb) Honky Tonk Angels
 (B) Come On In
9) (G) Your Cheating Heart
10) (D) Stupid Cupid
11) (Eb) You Belong To Me
12) (A)_ I Love You Honey
13) (Bb) Lovesick Blues
Play Off: Lovesick (stripper feel)
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Act Two
Entre acte:
1) (B) I Fall To Pieces (inst)
2) (Ab-F-Ab) Sweet Dreams/She's Got You/Sweet Dreams
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NOTE!!!!! Fiddle has a horrible chromatic figure at the top - meant to replicate the string-section on the record - if you can't get the music up-front I'll scan this and send it; you'll need to work on it!
3) (F) Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray
4) (Bb) Crazy
5) (C-Db) Seven Lonely Days
6) (D/Eb) If I Could See The World/Closer Walk With Thee
7) (C-Db) Blue Moon of Kentucky (mostly underscore)
(D/G/A) Gotta Lot Of Rhythm/ Shake, Rattle & Roll
9) (Eb) Faded Love (mostly u/score)
10) (Bb) How Great Thou Art (probably just vocal a capella)
11) (Eb) True Love
Bows:
12) (A/Bb) Anytime reprise
segue:
13) (G) If You've Got Leaving On Your Mind
14) (A) Bill Bailey
Exit music: Honky Tonk Angels (from the up-tempo part of the opener.)
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Don Drummer
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West Virginia, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 8:16 am patsy
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Roger, the chromatic figure you mention was played on piano in all the runs I was involved in. Can't imagine it any other way given the make up of the band. I almost came up with a version on steel. Then we found a pianist.  Don D. |
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 8:26 am
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Hi, Don
I should have erased that part - that list is from an email that I sent to the fiddle-player who's doing the show with me next month in Virginia. He's never done it before, so I sketched out the running-order for him. I thought it would serve Joe's purpose, too, so I dug it up from my 'Sent' file.
That run is, as you say, mostly done by the pianist but, when there's a fiddler, they'll ask him to do it.
Doesn't make sense to me - it's meant to replicate the string-section intro from the recording but, however good the fiddler is, it just sounds like one violin playing a somewhat dissonant and unappealing scale! Piano covers it best. I've found it on E9, but I'm glad I've never been asked to provide it for the show!
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John Gould
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Houston, TX Now in Cleveland TX
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 8:29 am
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there doing Always Patsy at the Opry I work at on the weekends. We did a small part of the show 2 weeks ago as a preview. We played Walking after Midnight and Crazy. Mary Allen-Keating is playing Patsy in this production of the show and they are going to use the River Road Boys to play the music for the show.
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Alan Harrison
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Murfreesboro Tennessee, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 8:46 am "Always Patsy Cline"
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What a fun show. I have played 37 peformances of this show in five different venues over a period of four years, 2001 - 2005.
25 performances were with two great 5 piece bands and 12 performances were just steel, upright bass and rhythm guitar. "What a challenge" but something I'll always remember.
Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.....alan
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 8:55 am
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Here's that fiddle-part....
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Don Drummer
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West Virginia, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 9:03 am
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| Roger, where in Virginia? |
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 9:08 am
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The Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA - right down at the western end of the state. A lovely part of the world, lots of Norfolk & Western railroad history, and mountains all around.
It's also - coincidentally - where I played my first-ever job in the US after I emigrated from the UK. (Well, to be accurate, the production opened in Summer '98 at the Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, then moved with the same team down to the Barter - a kind-of co-production, I believe.)
So - it'll be a nostalgic trip for me, and they're good people to work for. I'll be leaving VA and driving straight from there to Medora, ND for my 16-week Summer gig - I'll be gone from home so long I bet the dog bites me come September!!!
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Bill Ladd
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Wilmington, NC, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 9:52 am
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| Roger Rettig wrote: |
Here's that fiddle-part....
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First time I did it, we had no fiddle so the piano took that. Second time there was a fiddler, so he handled that chore (he hated that run, too).
I can't remember which song, but there's a chickin-pickin run the steel shares with the guitar. It'll be easy on E9 pedal, but I was using A6 non-pedal -- had to move the bar around a good bit to hit all the notes. |
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Brett Lanier
From:
Madison, TN
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Posted 13 Mar 2010 8:04 am
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| I did this show last summer in an old dairy barn that has been restored into a theater. It was very picturesque. The first day they asked me if i wouldn't mind doing a little singing, I said "ok" and the next day the director gave me a stack of paper that was the vocal score. It benefited me in the long run, but I wasn't siked about it at the time. |
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