Ticket sales, casts named for Northern Sky

Tickets go on sale April 1 online and April 3 by phone or at the box office for the summer season at Northern Sky Theater, which also announced the casts for the four original musical comedies playing in repertory from June 14 to Aug. 26.

This summer shows will see the return of familiar faces at Northern Sky as well as a new troupe of interns.

“Our intern program has always given young theater artists a chance to work in all areas of a professional theater,” Artistic Director Jeffrey Herbst said. “This year we have three outstanding interns taking on major performance roles in our shows, as well. Also, all five interns are Wisconsin natives and are attending or have attended schools in Wisconsin.”

The summer world premiere, “Oklahoma in Wisconsin” by Richard Castle and Matthew Levine, features returning company members Doug Mancheski, Eva Nimmer, Bill Theisen, Rhonda Rae Busch and Alex Campea and introduces performing intern John Brotherhood. Show times are at 6 p.m. Mondays and 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays.

Matt Zembrowski’s “Doctor! Doctor!” which premiered last year at Northern SKy, returns with the same cast — Mancheski, Fred “Doc” Heide, Chase Stoeger, Nimmer, Bill Theisen, Busch and Kelly Doherty, as well as performing intern Laura Paruzynski. It’s on stage at 8:30 p.m. Mondays and 6 p.m. Thursdays.

“Victory Farm,” by Emilie Coulson, Katie Dahl and James Valcq, returns for its third run with Northern Sky with returning cast membersMancheski, Nimmer and Molly Rhode. New for the 2017 cast are Herbst, Stoeger, and Sevastopol High School graduate Isaiah Spetz. Performances are at 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Saturdays.

The Fred Alley/James Kaplan classic “Lumberjacks in Love” returns to the woods with the same all-star cast from last year’s 20th anniversary production — Heide, Stoeger, Mancheski, Herbst, Rhode and Nimmer. It plays once a week, at 8:30 p.m. Thursdays.

Northern Sky is a nonprofit professional theater organization that produces original musical shows in repertory from June through August in its outdoor amphitheater in Peninsula State Park. The company continues with fall shows at Door Community Auditorium and town halls from September through October, as well as Christmas holiday shows. The cast and times for its fall show, the world premiere of Paul Libman/Dave Hudson’s “Naked Radio,” will be announced in April, with tickets on sale May 1.

General admission tickets are $22 for adults, $11 for students, and $6 for ages 12 and younger; reserved seats are available for an extra $7. A Wisconsin state park sticker is not required to attend performances. For tickets or more information, visit the Northern Sky box office, in the Shops at Green Gables, Wisconsin 42, Ephraim; call 920-854-6117; or go to www.northernskytheater.com.