Preview of Coming Attractions

I am really, really looking forward to Morsch's blog post about this upcoming country music show. He is hyping it like none other...

Country star Chely Wright talks about her Friday night show at the Sellersville Theater. And about her coming out.

This is probably the third time Morsch has Tweeted about Ms. Wright's show in Sellersville and the second time he's posted the article. The first time he didn't mention she was gay. Does he think this will lure more people to his favorite venue?

Chely Wright: from breakup to breakdown to breakthrough
Published: Sunday, January 23, 2011
By Mike Morsch
Executive Editor

Don't worry - although that title sounds creative, Ms. Wright came up with it, not Morsch. The basics: Wright is a country music "star" whose last #1 hit was in 1999. She's promoting her seventh album.

But the big buzz wasn’t necessarily only about the music or words, but the public admission in those words that she was gay, that she was no longer hiding it and that, frankly, she had come to the realization that it was more important to be true to herself.

Good for her! I mean, as long as she's not using her new-found sexuality as a crass attempt to jump-start her ailing career...

Although she hasn’t turned her back on Nashville — she still has a home there — Wright has experienced more acceptance in New York.

“I’ve been in Nashville 22 years and within eight months of being in New York City, I felt more at home in a community than I’d ever felt in Nashville,” she said. “That speaks volumes of truth.”

I'm guessing the "truth" is that Nashville is full of gay-hating bigots?

“To some degree, people are always going to say Chely Wright is the gay country music star,” she said. “That’s always going to be the asterisk by my name."

But at least she isn't dwelling on it, right? Not bring it up to local reporters at every show she puts on, right? Why do people keep harping on the fact that she's gay - other than the fact that she wrote a song about it and keeps talking about it? But enough of this - let's get her thoughts on the world's greatest venue, the Sellersville Theater:

"It’s fun to play a 50,000-person festival, but there is nothing like sitting in a room with a few hundred people. It’s like hanging out in someone’s living room."

Quoth Terri Clark: “...like sitting in a living room at a party with someone who has a guitar in her lap.” Per Kathy Mattea: “...people feel like they’ve been sitting in somebody’s living room...” I used to think that was a Morsch cliche. Turns out it's more of a washed-up country singer cliche.

She’ll cap off the appearance by interacting with fans after the show.

And rest assured, we'll hear about it when Morsch's blog post comes out. Gracious celeb alert!

Wright knows that since coming out her life has changed. And she’s OK with that.

I'm glad she's happy, really. But she can't complain about people dwelling on this fact when she herself brings it up CONSTANTLY.