Gail Bliss News

Gail Bliss has been playing Patsy Cline for more than 30 years. Starting January 6 at the historic Alhambra Theatre & Dining, Gail will begin her official final year starring in A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline. Featuring more than 20 of Patsy’s most beloved songs, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline will run at the Alhambra through February 5.

When Craig Smith and Theatre Partners reopened the historic Alhambra Theatre & Dining in 2009, they promised that everything about the experience would be new from the chairs to the menu to stemware. 

Crystal Bowersox, the American Idol season nine (2010) runner-up has been announced to join the cast of the Amas Musical Theatre and The Amas Musical Theatre Lab staged readings of Play It by Heart, a new musical, with music by David Spangler, Jerry Taylor and Marty Dodson, lyrics by David Spangler, Jerry Taylor, R.T. Robinson, and Marty Dodson, and book by Willy Holtzman.

Amas Musical Theatre and The Amas Musical Theatre Lab will present staged readings of Play It by Heart, a new musical, with music by David Spangler, Jerry Taylor and Marty Dodson, lyrics by David Spangler, Jerry Taylor, R.T. Robinson, and Marty Dodson, and book by Willy Holtzman.

Looking back. Looking Forward. That is the theme for the year-long anniversary celebration at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, the nation's longest running professional dinner theater. In late July of 1967, there was but one table - on an empty lot on Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville, Florida, an unlikely spot 50 years ago for what would become an icon in the Jacksonville cultural landscape and within the national theater scene.

Seven times Gail Bliss and her show about Patsy Cline's story, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, has sold out the Alhambra. Starting February 8, as a command performance, the show will return for the eighth time -- and the final time for Gail Bliss. Chosen from over 600 hopefuls in 1994 to originate the role of Patsy in the initial touring production of "A Closer Walk," singer-songwriter Gail Bliss has made a name for herself all over North America for her work in this role. "A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline" is estate approved - one of only two select productions to be sanctioned by the Patsy Cline Estate managed by Charlie Dick, Patsy Cline's husband. Dick said of Patsy, "she's the best I've ever seen."

Seven times Gail Bliss and her show about Patsy Cline's story, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, has sold out the Alhambra. Starting February 8, as a command performance, the show will return for the eighth time -- and the final time for Gail Bliss. Chosen from over 600 hopefuls in 1994 to originate the role of Patsy in the initial touring production of "A Closer Walk," singer-songwriter Gail Bliss has made a name for herself all over North America for her work in this role."A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline" is estate approved - one of only two select productions to be sanctioned by the Patsy Cline Estate managed by Charlie Dick, Patsy Cline's husband. Dick said of Gail, "she's the best I've ever seen."

Seven times Gail Bliss and her show about Patsy Cline's story, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, has sold out the Alhambra. Starting February 8, as a command performance, the show will return for the eighth time -- and the final time for Gail Bliss. Chosen from over 600 hopefuls in 1994 to originate the role of Patsy in the initial touring production of "A Closer Walk," singer-songwriter Gail Bliss has made a name for herself all over North America for her work in this role. "A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline" is estate approved - one of only two select productions to be sanctioned by the Patsy Cline Estate managed by Charlie Dick, Patsy Cline's husband. Dick said of Patsy, "she's the best I've ever seen."

Pull out the fiddle and rosin up the bow, because we all might just be able to go home and discover we are a country boy, or girl, at heart after seeing Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert...

The Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, Calif. will welcome the holiday season with the world premiere of Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert...

Menopause the Musical, the hilarious celebration of women which re-opened in Philadelphia for its third season at the Society Hill Playhouse on Wednesday September 13th, will introduce several new cast members in the next month.

Two new cast members have joined the production of Menopause The Musical, 'the hilarious celebration of Women and The Change,' which re-opened in Philadelphia for its third season at the Society Hill Playhouse on Wednesday, September 13

Tony Award-winner Jarrod Emick and Cass Morgan have been cast in Ring of Fire, the Johnny Cash musical that will begin a test run in Buffalo on September 2nd before moving to San Francisco and to Broadway in early 2006

Village Theatre currently presents a fun, but slightly flawed musical with a fantastic score and a good book, but with a sometimes sappy and overdramatic story line.