TAMU-C  University Playhouse
Presents Two Stellar Performances
For Spring Semester

 

by: Bobby McDonald

 

The Texas A&M University-Commerce University Playhouse has announced two great performances for the Spring 2010 semester. If you've attended before, you know about the excellent performances and well researched story lines, and if you haven't, you're in for a real treat.  Scheduled for the spring semester is  "Always, Patsy Cline," a musical featuring the music of Country and Western icon Patsy Cline, February 25-28, March 4-6, and a special Gala performance on March 7th; and, "Scapin," the Italian farce, that offers "side splitting" humor and an outstanding story line, scheduled for April 29 & 30th, and May 1st and 2nd.

As with all performances at the University Playhouse tickets can be purchased in advance and can be ordered by telephone via (903)886-5900. Special discounts are featured for students and seniors, so call for pricing and ordering your tickets.

Make plans to attend one or both of these performances and support the theater department at TAMU-C.

 

 

 

 

"Always, Patsy Cline, by Ted Swindley, is a simple, affecting story of the enduring friendship between country music legend, Patsy Cline, and a working mom, Louise Seger, from Houston, Texas. Though Patsy died in a tragic plain crash in 1964, her memory and music will live forever. "Always, Patsy Cline" features twenty-seven of the singer's timeless songs, including Walking After Midnight, Crazy, and I Fall to Pieces. Audiences around the world have loved "Always, Patsy Cline"  since it's premier, fifteen years ago. The finale to the play is one of the all-time great feel-good moments in American theater. Proceeds from the production of this play benefit the TAMU-C Ray Price Scholarship Fund and it coincides with the March 5, 47th Anniversary of Patsy Cline's death, in a plane crash, as she was returning with Randy Hughes, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins, to Nashville, Tennessee, called "The Darkest Day in Country Music History."

 

 

 

 

 

"Scapin"  or "Les Fourberies de Scapin" is the American adaptation of the Italian farce, that focuses on a scheming servant, who tricks two fathers out of money that their sons neeed to support their lovers. "Scapin" is a tale of mistaken identities, forbidden love, vengeful fathers, lovesick sons, and servants who are the only ones who have any clue about what's going on. You're sure to be entertained and leave the theater with a new appreciation of humor!

 

 

 

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