Summer Theatre will return to NIC

Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre is going home, sweet home.

Executive Director Tracey Vaughan announced Thursday night that after a hiatus since 2014, productions are moving back to North Idaho College starting next summer.

“CDA Summer Theatre performed at NIC for over two decades, and we are delighted to return to them for our 2020 season,” she said. “This venue has so much to offer to our patrons and artists.”

Graydon Stanley, vice president for student services at NIC, said the reunion makes both sides happy.

“North Idaho College is so pleased to welcome Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre back to our campus,” he said. “We have a rich history of supporting the arts in North Idaho and look forward to their outstanding shows returning to the Schuler Performing Arts Center stage.”

Vaughan extended deep gratitude to the Kroc Center, which has hosted the productions since 2014.

“We have been guests of the Kroc Center for a little while, and they have been great hosts,” she said. “We absolutely love the Kroc Center and will continue a partnership with them on future projects.”

But NIC and Schuler, she said, offer too much to ignore.

“North Idaho patrons can look forward to this wonderful venue with outstanding features like flexible staging, state-of-the-art technical equipment, an orchestra pit, new seats installed this summer, ample parking by the lake, a comfortable lobby,

a variety of concessions options, and a professional quality facility throughout,” Vaughan said.

Season tickets for 2020 season are available for sale now. If patrons subscribe in June, they will receive one free ticket to a staged reading of Arsenic and Old Lace or Crimes of the Heart.

CDA Summer Theatre is offering four shows in 2020 with heavily discounted Season Tickets ($56 off regular pricing) and a three-show Flex Pass option.

The 2020 season lineup:

Little Shop of Horrors — Feed your need for musical hilarity with this delicious sci-fi smash about a man-eating plant. July 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — In this American take on the war between the sexes, seven empowered frontier women take charge of their destinies (and their men) in 1850s Oregon. July 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25

The Full Monty — While spying on their wives at a “Girls’ Night Out,” a group of unemployed steelworkers gets jealous, and the men come up with a bold way to make some quick cash. July 31, Aug. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8

All Shook Up — American jukebox musical with music from the Elvis Presley songbook is a rocking, heartwarming tale about following dreams, opening up to love, and the power of music. Aug. 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22

Meantime, the 2019 season is underway at the Kroc Center auditorium:

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast runs June 13–30; Oklahoma! July 11-28; and Smokey Joe’s Café Aug. 8–25. Tickets are on sale now for both 2019 and 2020 at cdasummertheatre.com or 208-660-2958.

Here’s a look at earlier CDA Summer Theatre productions at NIC:

2013: Big River, Mary Poppins, Romance/Romance, 9 to 5: The Musical, Christmas My Way

2012: Hello, Dolly!, Ring of Fire, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Ragtime, Over The River...Woods (Reading), Cool Yule

2011: The Wizard of Oz, A Little Night Music, Once On This Island, The Sound of Music, G.I. Holiday Jukebox

2010: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Cinderella, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Hairspray, Plaid Tidings

2009: Joseph...Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Producers, Dames At Sea, Miss Saigon, Nuncrackers

2008: All Shook Up, La Cage Aux Folles, Once Upon a Mattress, Les Miserables, White Christmas

2007: Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Full Monty, Putting it Together, Kiss Me Kate

2006: A Chorus Line, Peter Pan, Pippin, The King and I

2005: Some Enchanted Evening, Guys and Dolls, Footloose, Beauty and the Beast

2004: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 42nd Street, Little Shop of Horrors, CATS

2003: Annie, Chicago, Smokey Joe’s Café, Fiddler on the Roof

2002: Anything Goes, Into the Woods, West Side Story, Oklahoma!

2001: Crazy for You, Cabaret, Grease, Camelot

2000: Hello, Dolly!, The Music Man, Our Shining Hour, My Fair Lady

1999: Joseph...Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Forever Plaid, Pajama Game, Will Rogers Follies

1998: Mame, Nunsense, Man of La Mancha, Paint Your Wagon

1997: Annie Get Your Gun, Jesus Christ Superstar, Whorehouse, South Pacific

1996: Gypsy, How to Succeed in Business, Evita, Brigadoon

1995: Molly Brown, HMS Pinafore, Funny Girl, Show Boat

1994: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Somethings Afoot, Damn Yankee, The Sound of Music

1993: The Music Man, A Chorus Line, Side by Side by Sondheim, Camelot

1992: West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Some Enchanted Evening, Fiddler on the Roof

1991: The King and I, My Fair Lady, South Pacific

1990: Company, The Fantastiks, Oklahoma!