MGR keeps country legend alive on stage

After portraying the late country legend Patsy Cline in three productions, Anne Karner is starting to feel a little like her.

Karner sings 25 of Cline's classic songs in her fourth turn as the singer at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, which will host “Always...Patsy Cline” through Saturday, Sept. 29.

At one point in the show, which takes place during a Cline concert in Houston's Esquire Ballroom, that feeling of kinship to the country star hits Karner the hardest.