American Folklore Theatre Opens Season

American Folklore Theatre is pleased to announce the opening of its summer season on June 18 in the amphitheatre at Peninsula State Park.

June 18 marks a later-than-usual season opening for AFT. Managing Director Kaye Christman explained, "Every few years the logistics of the calendar year mean that we have to shift our season dates slightly." Christman further noted, however, that the season will close later than usual (August 30), maintaining approximately the same season length as in previous years.

Fishing for the Moon – the historic first collaboration between legendary AFT collaborators Fred Alley and James Kaplan – will be featured opening night. The show, which premiered at AFT in 1992, is a lighthearted romance tracing the confusion that envelops a gentleman from Georgia who comes to small-town Wisconsin to look for a man who runs his farm like an army camp. It will play throughout the season on Mondays at 8 pm, Wednesdays at 8:30 pm, and Saturdays at 6 pm.

Another Alley-Kaplan collaboration, the enduring fan favorite Lumberjacks in Love, will take the stage on Tuesdays at 8 pm, Wednesdays at 6 pm, and Fridays at 8 pm beginning June 24. This musical north woods romp tells the tale of four burly lumberjacks who live in a blissful state of unperturbed masculinity until the unexpected arrival of a mail-order bride.

Completing this season’s trio of productions is the return of A Cabin with a View, written by Dave Hudson and Paul Libman (the team that brought AFT Muskie Love and Main-Travelled Roads). A Cabin with a View tells the story of Lucy, a 1959 UW student whose safe, traditional worldview is shaken by a chance encounter with a counter-culture poet named George. A Cabin with a View will play on Thursdays at 8 pm and Saturdays at 8:30 pm. An extra performance of A Cabin with a View is scheduled for Friday, June 20 at 8 pm.

Tickets are on sale at the AFT office in the Green Gables shops in north Ephraim, via phone at 920.854.6117, and online at http://www.FolkloreTheatre.com. All summer performances take place outdoors in the amphitheatre at Peninsula State Park. A park sticker is not required if you park in the theatre parking lot.