A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline
by Dean Regan
Directed by Karen Valanne
Set and Lighting Design by Jocelyn Pringle
Costume Design by Francesca Barnett-Cowan
Starring:
Mélanie LeBlanc as Patsy Cline
John Allen MacLean as Little Big Man
With musicians Mark Geddes, Adam Pye, Brad Reid, Andrew Sneddon and Jennie Wood.
July 13 - 17, 20 - 24, 27 - 31, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Doors open 6:15 p.m.
Follow Patsy's climb to stardom from her hometown in Virginia to the Grand Ole Opry, Las Vegas, and Carnegie Hall! Featuring over 20 hits including "Crazy", "Walkin' After Midnight", "Sweet Dreams", "She's Got You" and "I Fall to Pieces." Although she will never be replaced, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline is a tribute to her spirit and a celebration of the music of her life.
“A beautifully done tribute to a great American singer.”
-The Sneak Preview, Ashland, Oregon
"A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline...is first-class entertainment that will charm country-music fans and non-country music fans alike...[A Closer Walk...] gives folks the next best thing to the real Patsy."
- Quad City Musicians News, Rock Island, Illinois
Tickets
$41.25 each
Group rates available. Contact us for more information.
Be it as an
actor, singer or dancer, Melanie Leblanc is an engaged artist,
passionate and devoted to art, to love, and to the greatness that
surrounds her. She is a graduate from the Randolph School for the Performing Arts
in Toronto and has received a bachelor of music from the Université de
Moncton. Since then, she has performed in numerous productions, such as Doubt a Parable (Theatre New Brunswick); A Christmas Carol (Theatre New Brunswick); LifeDream (Notable Acts Theatre Festival); Anne and Gilbert (Campbell Webster Entertainment); Pélagie (Two Planks and A Passion Theatre); The Gondoliers (Toronto Operetta Theatre); Dieppe Dieppe (Théâtre Capitol et l'Ambassade Canadienne-Paris, France), as well as in her own enterprises like her one woman show Women and War. She is currently working with Frayn McCarthy and Blair Thomson on the creation of a new Canadian musical The Virgin Courtesan
in which she holds the title role. After having spent three months
performing in Saigon, Vietnam, Melanie is delighted to be performing
again in her home province. She feels honoured and blessed to be
sharing A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline with you.
John Allen MacLean
John Allen MacLean
Brad Reid
Since
completing the 4-year jazz program at St FX University in 2002, where
he studied the saxophone, Brad's interests and the demands for a
working musician
led him to study the other woodwinds (flute, clarinet, oboe), and more
importantly, the fiddle, guitar, and bagpipes association with his Cape
Breton roots.
In the fall of 2002, he started working as a side musician in numerous house bands aboard luxury cruise ships, and in 2008-2009 held a position as a musical director with the Princess Cruise Line. Sailing the seas primarily during the winter months, Brad returns home to Halifax for the vibrant summer music scene.
Over the past 8 years, Brad has had the opportunity to perform with Joel Mason and his touring Elton John tribute show, Johnny Thunder (formerly of the Drifters), Eddie Holman (“Hey there Lonely Girl”), Australia’s Michael “Banjo” Young, local country artists Rylee Madison and Ryan Cook, and various other artists, events and venues around the Maritimes.
In 2008 Brad released his first traditional Cape Breton fiddle album, The Conundrum, which subsequently had two tracks placed in the Canadian film At Home By Myself... With You, and is planning a second release for 2011.
A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline is Brad's second Live Bait Theatre production, after last season's Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave.
In the fall of 2002, he started working as a side musician in numerous house bands aboard luxury cruise ships, and in 2008-2009 held a position as a musical director with the Princess Cruise Line. Sailing the seas primarily during the winter months, Brad returns home to Halifax for the vibrant summer music scene.
Over the past 8 years, Brad has had the opportunity to perform with Joel Mason and his touring Elton John tribute show, Johnny Thunder (formerly of the Drifters), Eddie Holman (“Hey there Lonely Girl”), Australia’s Michael “Banjo” Young, local country artists Rylee Madison and Ryan Cook, and various other artists, events and venues around the Maritimes.
In 2008 Brad released his first traditional Cape Breton fiddle album, The Conundrum, which subsequently had two tracks placed in the Canadian film At Home By Myself... With You, and is planning a second release for 2011.
A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline is Brad's second Live Bait Theatre production, after last season's Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave.
