Allen Burnett grew up loving the Dallas Cowboys, Texas barbecue and the feeling of people watching him on stage. A natural ham, he calls himself.
He wasn’t – and still isn’t, by his admission – a leading man. In “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” now at Roger Rocka’s Music Hall, he has maybe 20 lines as a minor character.
But there was nothing minor about the way life crashed in on Burnett in 2010. His wife, Lisa died from cancer, leaving him with four children, ages 9 to 17. He pulled himself together, raised the kids and kept teaching students with special needs…