Just got home from the Woodstock Opera House where we saw the musical “Always Patsy Cline.”

The playbill for "Patsy Cline Always."

It’s basically a two-woman show with band.

The lead is played by Streamwood’s Sarah Blevins.

Close your eyes (or sit behind a tall guy, as I did in the balcony) and maybe you could tell it was not Patsy Cline singing, but I couldn’t.

And like Patsy Cline, Blevins she’s “a girl who also can’t read notes and doesn’t know what key she’s singing in.”

As with Patsy Cline, it doesn’t make a difference.

The songs are played off the part of Texas superfan Louise Seger played by Huntley Speech Language Pathology Assistant Shannon Mayhall at Huntley School District 158.

Outfitted in a late 1950’s-style wig, Mayhall is wonderful in her portrayal of how Seger fell in love with Patsy Cline’s music on the Arthur Godfrey Show, which she could not stand, but her two young children loved, until she heard Patsy Cline singing.

When Patsy Cline came to her hometown of Houston to perform, Mayhall’s character got to the location two hours early and befriended the country singer, taking her home for the night and to be interviewed early the next morning on the local country music radio station.

Mayhall display of grief upon hearing on that radio station that the woman she had continued contact with by mail and telephone had been killed in a plane crash at age 30 was moving, to say the least.

There are two more shows, Saturday night at 8 and Sunday at 3. Ticket information can be found here. The price is $23 for adults, $20 for seniors.