Deertrees Program

Welcome to our 85th ANNIVERSARY SEASON AT DEERTREES!

Our Presentation Always Patsy Cline! September 3rd and 4th at 7:30PM
Written by
Ted Swindley
Based on a true story

Always…Patsy Cline is a musical based on the true story about Patsy Cline's friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in 1961, and continued a friendship with Cline until her death. The show is a tribute to the legendary country singer who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963. The musical play, complete with down home country humor, true emotion includes many of Patsy' unforgettable hits such as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Walking After Midnight…27 songs in all. The show's title was inspired by Cline's letters to Seger, which were consistently signed "Love ALWAYS… Patsy Cline." Always…Patsy Cline has been one of the most produced musicals in America, including a successful run off-Broadway according to American Theatre Magazine.

Katie Connor (Patsy Cline) Katie is beyond thrilled to be playing Patsy Cline, in Always, Patsy Cline at the Deertrees Theatre! She is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) where she studied Musical Theatre. For the past 11 year she has enjoyed performing her cabaret act at Club Cafe in Boston with her good pal, Bill Spera. Some of her favorite past roles include Rizzo in Grease, Georgie in Full Monty, and Soupy Sue in Urinetown. By day, she works for the A.A. Dority Company, and has been there for 17 years. She resides in Marlborough, MA with her wife, Allyson, and her 9 year old daughter, Lily. "Thank you to my friends and family for all of your support and a special shoutout to my parents for always encouraging and believing in me. Love to Allyson & Lily."

Gail Phaneuf (Louise/Director) is the Executive and Artistic Director for Deertrees Theatre. She is thrilled to play Louise on stage with the inimitable Katie Connor playing Patsy Cline. Gail is an award-winning playwright, composer, producer, actor and director. Her teen musical The Love Note has enjoyed an Off-Broadway run at Actors Temple Theatre in NYC, and continues to have numerous productions at schools, regional theaters and theater camps. www.thelovenote.com The Love Note Musical is now offered by Heuer Publishing and Brooklyn Publishers for production. MONSTERS! A Midlife Musical Meltdown, is a collaboration with Broadway lyricist Ernie Lijoi. The comic musical was a finalist in the Rod Parker Playwriting Competition, kicking off developmental readings in Boston and New York City. MONSTERS! had its first full production at CentAstage in Boston. It was subsequently produced at the Deertrees Theatre in Harrison Maine, and was also staged at The Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA. MONSTERS! Is also offered by Heuer Publishing, or you may visit www.monstersthemusical.com Gail's most recent show is the Memorize You Song Cycle that had it's debut at Deertrees this July. http://www.gailphaneuf.com
Gail is the founder of G.P. Productions in Boston, and a former president of The Boston Playwrights’ Platform, where several of her plays were first first produced. Her short play Stop Requested was awarded best play and best director, and was also published by Heuer Publishing. Games and Puzzles was produced by Image Theatre Co. for their Fem-Noire Festival and the Boston Theater Marathon. Stop Requested and her prickly Urban Gardens were produced by the South Camden Theatre Company in New Jersey. Urban Gardens was awarded best play at the Playwrights’ Platform Summer Festival. Her plays A Perfect Match and Lapse were produced at the ACME Winter New Works Festival and the Boston Theatre Marathon. Her edgy political piece Random Selection was read at the Provincetown Theatre Company's Spring Playwrights Festival and was later performed at the Boston Theater Marathon and at Curry College. Random Selection was published in Belgium in a collection of the best short plays by Boston playwrights. Her haunting work Binding the Artful Dodger had its world premiere at Curry College and Breakfast with Mary had its world premiere at Deertrees Theatre in Maine in 2011. Her new one woman show KIPPY, Pray for the Dead and Fight Like Hell for the Living Kippy Film Page! was due to premiere in Boston in 2020, but was cancelled due to Covid. Gail filmed and edited a performance of the show during the COVID-19 Pandemic in isolation.
As an actor Gail has performed in hundreds of plays and musicals. Most recently she played the role of Maxine Faulk in Night of the Iguana at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival Directed by Fred Abrahamse (2019) and Leona Dawson in Small Craft Warnings directed by Patrick Falco.

Antonio Harmsen Villa (Bob Bob in the band) Was most recently seen on stage at Deertrees as SPIKE! in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike! (as well as the Knotty Readings, the Salt Lick Cabaret and Drag Bingo!) He is currently our general manager at Deertrees and now heads our lighting and technical crew. He graduated from the William Esper Studio in the summer of 2019 in New York. His first performance as an actor was in "Buscando Nirvana" by Enrique Mendoza in Peru. He was seen most recently in "Night of the Iguana" by Tennessee Williams, in Provincetown, Massachusetts for the Tennessee Williams Festival -2019. In 2020 he performed "The Piazza" by Barbara Anderson in Brooklyn, New York for the Black Box Festival, and then unluckily for him and the rest of human beings, Covid invaded the world. He's now appearing on stage once again at the Deertrees Theatre, where he's been having a great time rehearsing and working in the theatre all season. If you want to know more about him, you can check his website www.antonioharmsenvilla.com, or come talk to him after the show... 😂

Evan Cuddy - (Music Director) is a musician and a teacher residing in Portland Maine. He currently serves as organist/accompanist at the First Parish Church UCC in Yarmouth Maine, and has served as Musical Director at Lyric Music Theatre, Portland Players Theatre, and Maine State Music Theatre. He also maintains a private studio that caters to violin and viola students of all ages, and is a violin instructor at the Waynflete school in Portland. He recently made his Hollywood debut as a featured musician/extra in Little Women. When not teaching or performing Evan enjoys long distance running, houseplants, long days on the beach, and quality time with his two cats, Chaquita and Halloween. Evan holds degrees in music performance from Susquehanna University and the University of Southern Maine.

Madison Mayer (Stage Manager) was born and raised on Cape Cod where she has been performing live for the past 14 years. She made her Maine debut this season at the Deertrees Theatre! Madison was last seen as Nina in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and "Memorize You" at Deertrees Theatre. Other roles include Johanna in "Sweeney Todd; The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" at the Provincetown Theatre, Missy Miller in "The Marvelous Wonderettes" at the Cape Cod Theatre Company, Sandy in "Grease" at the Barnstable Comedy Club, and Dainty June in "Gypsy" at the Cotuit Center for the Arts. She is excited to bring her stage management skills to "Always Patsy Cline"! ❤🎹

Shannon Oliver (Bass)

Joshua (Drummer) has been a professional drummer for musical theater in Southern Maine for more than 14 years. He is also an actor, director, and light designer when given the chance. He is very happy to be back on stage, and in front of an audience again.

JD Raines (Guitar)

Anna Pearlman (Fiddle) is a concert violinist and violist from the Boston area who moved to Southern Maine in 2013. She is concertmaster of Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra, and plays both violin and viola in the Portsmouth Symphony. She has also recently been playing the Baroque violin. One of Anna’s favorite things to do is perform in musicals. Anna lives in Gorham, ME with her wife, daughter and two dogs.

"ALWAYS… PATSY CLINE" SONGS

HONKY TONK MERRY GO ROUND                        Frank Simon/Stan Gardner
Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music
BACK IN BABYS ARMS Bob Montgomery
Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co., Inc. (ASCAP)
And on behalf of Dimensional Songs of the Knoll (BMI)
ANYTIME Herbert Happy Lawson
Unichappel Music, Inc. (BMI)
WALKIN’ AFTER MIDNIGHT                                    Don Hecht/Alan Block
Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music
I FALL TO PIECES Hank Cochran/Harlan Howard
Sony/ATV Tree Publishing
IT WASN’T GOD WHO MADE JD Miller
   HONKY TONK ANGELS International Copyright Group, Inc.
COME ON IN V.F. “Pappy” Stewart
   AND MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music
YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART                                           Hank Williams, Sr.
Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music
STUPID CUPID Neil Sedaka/Howard Greenfield
Screen EMI Music Publishing
YOU BELONG TO ME King/Price/Stewart Ridgeway Music
SAN ANTONIO ROSE    Bourne Co. (ASCAP)
LOVESICK BLUES Irving Mills/C. Friend
Emi Music Publishing
SWEET DREAMS Don Gibson
Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music
SHE’S GOT YOU Hank Cochran
Sony/ATV Tree Publishing
.THREE CIGARETTES Eddie Miller/WS Stevenson
IN AN ASHTRAY                                                       Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music
CRAZY Willie Nelson
Sony/ATV Tree Publishing
  SEVEN LONELY DAYS Earl Schuman/Walden Schuman/Marshall Brown
Music Sales, Corp.
IF I COULD SEE THE WORLD Sammy Masters/Richard Pope
(THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD) MCA Publishing
JUST A CLOSER WALK (Traditional)
BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY                                   Bill Monroe
Integrated Copyright Group, Inc.
GOTTA LOTTA RHYTHM IN MY SOUL Barbara Ann Vaughn/WS Stevenson
Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music
SHAKE RATTLE AND ROLL                                     Charles Calhoun
Unichappel Music, Inc (BMI) & MIJAC Music (BMI0
FADED LOVE John Wills/Bob Wills
Chappell & Co. (ASCAP)
HOW GREAT THOU ART                                           (Traditional)
TRUE LOVE Cole Porter
Chappell & Co. (ASCAP)
IF YOU’VE GOT LEAVIN’                                          Wayne Walker/Webb Pierce
ON YOUR MIND Polygram International
BILL BAILEY (Traditional)

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