SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 ISSUE
Hank Williams: Lost Highway Continues Through Sunday
The Blowing Rock Stage Company summer season closes this Sunday, September 6—the last day of Hank Williams: Lost Highway at the Hayes Center.
You have until this Sunday, September 6, to experience a look at the life of Hank Williams, Sr. through story and song. The Blowing Rock Stage Company celebrates the legacy of this American music innovator with the musical biography Hank Williams: Lost Highway, showing this Thursday through Sunday, September 3 to 6, at the Hayes Performing Arts Center in Blowing Rock. Show times are 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, 8:00 p.m. on Friday, 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. on Saturday and 2:00 p.m. on Sunday.
In just a few short years, Williams transformed country music—almost singlehandedly setting the agenda for contemporary country song craft, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Born in Alabama, Williams moved to Nashville in 1949 and swept the national music charts with his blend of blues, yodel and Southern twang and a songbook of hits that remain instantly recognizable almost six decades later.
The production documents Williams’ rapid rise from an obscure hillbilly to a country and western superstar and then his equally swift demise—which ended in the backseat of his own Cadillac, where he died at the age of 29 from an overdose of alcohol and drugs. Before his untimely death, Williams gave the world such timeless gems as “Hey, Good Lookin’,” “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.”
The show has received glowing reviews nationally. Rolling Stone describes Lost Highway as “exhilarating! A rare achievement in musical theatre,” while a writer for the New York Post called the show “the best example of a musican’s bio put on a stage I’ve ever seen.”
Hank Williams: Lost Highway is the final show in the Blowing Rock Stage Company’s summer season. At the show’s conclusion, the Stage Company and the Hayes Center will temporarily suspend operations while the center enters a restructuring period, with hopes of reopening in 2010.
Tickets for Lost Highway are $30 for adults and $14 for students and are available now by calling the box office at 828-295-9627. Special group rates are also available with a 10-person minimum. Additional dinner and show packages starting at $82 per couple are also available at Glidewell’s, Bistro Roca, Crippen’s and the Manor House at Chetola. The Hayes Center is located at 152 Jamie Fort Road off Highway 321 in Blowing Rock. For more information, call 828-295-9627.
Want To Go?
Dates: Thursday through Sunday, September 3 to 6
Times: 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. Thursday/8:00 p.m. Friday/2:00 and 8:00 p.m. Saturday/2:00 p.m. Sunday
Location: Hayes Center, Blowing Rock
Cost: $30 adults/$14 students
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