Your Northern Sky News • SPRING 2022
Zap-Moo-Rah! Flower Power! Jeffrey Herbst, Artistic Director The title of this article is a Northern Sky cheer. It’s original and has multiple purposes: • Hurray for the return of a regular, repertory season • Hurray for putting people back to work, adding up to over fifty seasonal hires • Hurray for a four-show season, including two world premieres We have a few alterations to “business as usual” in comparison to 2019, the last year we could say anything was usual. This year we will have two summer shows in rep in the park while another is playing at the Gould. So, it’s three shows, like usual, but two venues. And, as was the case even last year, we will have one show running indoors in the Gould for the fall. Here’s the season lineup:
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Love Stings by Richard Castle and Matthew Levine While planning a lavish wedding on a 1960s Door County bee farm, Bill Zapper begins to wonder if he and his reluctant fiancée are truly right for each other. Will this outrageous wedding go off without a hitch — or is this the calm before the swarm? Richard has adapted a P.G. Wodehouse short novel and set it in Door County. Matthew has completely captured the 60s and written a fantastically catchy score that embraces the vibe. Pam Kriger will return to direct. The design team includes costuming by Karen BrownLarimore, lighting by Jason Fassl, sets by Adam Stoner, and sound by Ben Werner. The cast will include many of the same people who have been reading the piece from the beginning, along with some newcomers: Corrie Beula Kovacs, Doug Clemons, Alex Campea, Molly Rhode, Lachrisa Grandberry, and one role still to be cast. We have a terrific pit for this show: Alissa Rhode (also musical director), Dennis Johnson (also arranger), and Colin O’Day.