Patsy Cline’s triumphs inspire a new season at the Mayfield

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It’s fitting that the first show of the Mayfield Dinner Theatre season — A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline — should feature a woman who made her way despite adversity. Indeed, every show at the Mayfield since the pandemic struck has seen artistic director Van Wilmott performing feats of dash and daring to bring productions to the stage that entertain and inspire (Patsy’s particular specialty).

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“Patsy was the pioneer of not only being a female country singer but the one who was in charge of her own career. She didn’t take crap from anyone,” Wilmott says of the beloved American country and pop star. “She rattled some cages because she wasn’t in the kitchen, but she was the boss.”

After being moved three times to accommodate pandemic restrictions, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline finally kicks off Sept. 14. It stars Sara-Jeanne Hosie, a B.C. artist now living in Stratford, Ont. who twice before has inhabited the character in front of Edmonton audiences. (Devra Straker takes over the

How 1 mother used her cancer diagnosis to inspire transform in the natural beauty business

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In 2017, as a 30-calendar year-outdated navy spouse, mother of four, blogger and fashion stylist, Kelsey Bucci was carrying out a breast self-test when she discovered a lump. A month later, she was identified with Phase-2 breast cancer close to her household outdoors Savannah, Ga.

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