We know 2025 is going to be full of love and laughter, and there’s no one we’d rather enjoy it with than you!
Northern Sky Theater is announcing a four-show season of laugh-out-loud comedies for 2025 that includes one world premiere.
Northern Sky will present three shows outdoors in Peninsula State Park during the summer: Something in the Water (a world premiere who-done-it, where nothing is as it seems), Dairy Heirs (a home grown fan favorite, with a side of tongue in cheek), and No Bones About It (back by popular demand, where there’s smoke, there’s laughter!).
Indoors at the Gould for the fall will be The Bachelors (celebrating its 25th anniversary).
The three summer shows at the Park will run in repertory six nights a week, including two double show nights on Mondays and Thursdays. The fall indoor shows will run six times a week in September and October. A ticket sale date will be announced in early 2025.
 OUTDOOR SEASON |
Something in the Water World Premiere Book, Music & Lyrics by Matt Zembrowski Peninsula State Park Amphitheater – Summer 2025 This summer’s premiere is sure to be another smash hit by Matt Zembrowski, author of Dad’s Season Tickets. In this madcap, musical farce, the Grand Waukesha Springs Resort has seen better days. It will take more than a miracle to keep it from closing for good. With the help of its dedicated staff (and a few zany guests) the beloved hotel might just escape being lost to history. Mayhem and mistaken identities abound in this Vaudevillian murder mystery where nothing is as it seems (and no one really dies!) |
Dairy Heirs Book by Joel Kopischke & Eva Nimmer Music by Alissa Rhode Lyrics by Joel Kopischke Peninsula State Park Amphitheater – Summer 2025 Dairy Heirs centers on Elsie Fredericks, a passionate farmer, continuing in her family’s long tradition. But when her father passes away unexpectedly, estranged older brother Gabe returns to Wisconsin from Los Angeles with his own ideas about what to do with the family business. As the siblings wrestle with the fate of the farm, so do their partners, neighbors, two wannabe identical twin farmhands, and one extraordinary cow. Dairy Heirs untangles the question of what family tradition means to people with different dreams, and where — and with whom — one finds “home sweet home.” |
No Bones About It Music by Paul Libman Book & Lyrics by Dave Hudson Peninsula State Park Amphitheater – Summer 2025 No Bones About It features feuding families, star-crossed lovers, and bitter rivalries – Sound familiar? This summer, our successful duo of Libman and Hudson, tell the story of Romeo and Juliet in a way you never would have imagined, to hilarious results. In this case, ‘char’ crossed lovers, Ronny and Julie, find themselves at the Verona National Ribfest where their families are competing for the top prize. Drawing heavily from the source, No Bones About It is full of love and music, but with a bit more of a happy ending than Shakespeare’s play. |
 INDOOR SEASON |
The Bachelors Book and Lyrics by Fred Alley Music by James Kaplan Gould Theater – Fall 2025 This take on two guys co-habitating, celebrates the realm of bachelorhood through the lens of Stew and John, hapless bumblers in search of love in Madison, Wisconsin. Two thirty-something (or is that forty-something?) bachelors inhabit a cave-like apartment basking in a blissful state of extended adolescence. One night they innocently order out for pizza, never expecting the delivery girl is the reincarnation of a woman they both wronged in a previous lifetime. |
See you soon!
Jeff Herbst, Artistic Director
Molly Rhode, Associate Artistic Director