RING OF FIRE Returns to CC Playhouse Tonight

Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash returns to the Adventure Theater from tonight, March 27 through June 9, 2015. "The show was a huge hit for us in 2013," said director Bryce McDonald, "and since it closed we've had many people ask us to bring it back." Producing Director Jim Crabtree concurred, adding, "It's a wonderful production, full of heart, joy and great music. And we're fortunate to again have Kellye Cash in the show. As Johnny's niece, her perspective and her recollections of him make our production truly special."

RING OF FIRE weaves dozens of Johnny's most unforgettable songs together to create a unique musical about love and faith through hard times and across generations. Richard Maltby, the show's creator, says that while people already know the show's songs, "Put together in an evening, they tell a story. Johnny had the soul of a poet, and when you listen to these songs together you hear something in them that is surprising. It's the story of America [...] It's about home and family and getting together and loving somebody and having a backyard and generations living together; it's about what holds you together in the face of a hard life, it's about the really basic family values." And it's all told through the songs of the most iconic figure in country music, the "Man in Black."

Directed by Bryce McDonald, with musical direction by Ron Murphy and choreography by Leila Nelson, Ring of Fire will feature Playhouse resident actors, Daniel Black, John Dobbratz, Britt Hancock, Katherine Walker Hill, Lauren Marshall, Leila Nelson and Chance Wall, along with former Miss Tennessee and Miss America Kellye Cash. In addition to starring in the 2013 production of Ring of Fire, Ms. Cash has appeared on the CCP stage as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun and as Patsy Cline in Always, Patsy Cline. She has appeared on The David Letterman Show, The Today Show and Good Morning America, and has performed with Vince Gill, Lee Greenwood and Billy Joel. Ring of Fire is co-sponsored by Mariner's Pointe Resort and Senator Paul Bailey.

Currently at the Playhouse: Southern Fried Funeral by Nashville playwrights Osborne and Eppler plays on the Mainstage through April 17. The show is rated PG and is sponsored by The Beef & Barrel, The Blind Zebra and Red's Ale House. Singin' In The Rain opens on the Mainstage on April 24. The show is rated G and is co-sponsored by Beltone Hearing Aid Center and Dr. Vianney Villaruz, MD, Cardiology CMM-CMG.