Northland Players, now in its 54th season, looks back fondly over our many performances over the years. Below is a complete list of our productions from 1971 to the present.
December 1971
The Family Man
Ronald Cady, Director
February 1972
You the Jury
R. Driscoll, Director
November 1972
Damn Yankees
R. Driscoll, Director
May 1973
An Evening of One Act Plays:
Home at Six, Bill Wenger, Director
Why Am I A Bachelor, Connie Wylemski, Director
The After Hours Visitor, Midge Shaw, Director
November 1973
Once Upon a Mattress
Midge Shaw, Director
November 1974
Annie Get Your Gun
Billie Lyon and Midge Shaw, Directors
May 1975
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Joyce Leslie, Director
Judy Bell, Assistant Director
November 1975
Finian’s Rainbow
Midge Shaw, Director
February 1976
Abraham Lincoln: Reader’s Theater
Harold Kievit, Director
May 1976
Send Me No Flowers
Joyce Leslie, Director
August 1976
Barnaby
Carol Baxter, Director
November 1976
Guys and Dolls
Midge Shaw, Director
Harold Keivit, Musical Director
April 1977
Spoon River Anthology (Our first Dinner Theater at Pierre Room, Cheboygan)
Joyce Leslie, Director
November 1977
Fiddler on the Roof
Midge Shaw, Director
Kay Allaire-Jarvis, Assistant Director
April 1978
The Snow Queen
Joyce Leslie, Director
June 1978
Come Blow Your Horn
Bill Hellman, Director
November 1978
South Pacific
Joyce Leslie, Director
Jane Alcock, Assistant Director
January 1979
Beauty and the Lonely Beast
Midge Shaw, Director
February 1979
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Bill Hellman, Director
Andrea Young, Assistant Director
March 1979
Angel Street
Kay Allaire-Jarvis, Director
June 1979
Those Were the Days
Joyce Leslie and Sue Conboy, Directors
November 1979
Auntie Mame
Midge Shaw, Director
Don Freeland, Assistant Director
February 1980
Riddle Me Ree
Tekla Stubblefield, Director
June 1980
Double in Diamonds
Berti Burmeister, Director
Tekla Stubblefield, Assistant Director
November 1980
The Sound of Music
Joyce Leslie, Director
Judy Bell, Assistant Director
February 1981
New Clothes for the Empress
Midge Shaw, Director
March 1981
Those Were the Days (First Dinner Theater at Audie’s, Mackinaw City)
Joyce Leslie and Sue Conboy, Directors
June 1981
Here Lies Jeremy Troy
Berti Burmeister, Director
November 1981
Flower Drum Song
Joyce Leslie, Director
January 1982
Blythe Spirit
Kathleen Clark, Director
February 1982
Annabelle Broom: The Unhappy Witch
Midge Shaw Director
March 1982
Irish Review
Joyce Leslie and Sue Conboy, Directors
May 1982
A Thousand Clowns
David Dynak, Director
November 1982
Oliver!
Midge Shaw, Director
November 1982
Same Time, Next Year
Joyce Leslie and Scott Usitalo, Directors
December 1982
The Man in the Dog Suit
Norm Edwards, Director
Midge Shaw, Assistant Director
March 1983
Irish Review
Joyce Leslie and Sue Conboy, Directors
May 1983
Snow White
Pam Westover, Director
November 1983
Carousel
Joyce Leslie, Director
November 1983
The Odd Couple
Berti Burmeister, Director
January 1984
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
R. Driscoll, Director
March 1984
Irish Review
Joyce Leslie and Sue Conboy, Directors
April 1984
Darius and the Dozer Bull
Midge Shaw, Director
Barbara Beckers, Assistant Director
November 1984
The Music Man (First production in the newly restored Opera House)
Joyce Leslie, Director
Pam Westover, Assistant Director
February 1985
Androcles and the Lion
Kay Allairer-Jarvis, Director
Judy VanderHart, Assistant Director
February 1985
Last of the Class
Joyce Leslie, Director
March 1985
The Mouse Trap
Kay Allaire Jarvis, Director
April 1985
30 Plus 30
Joyce Leslie and Sue Conboy, Directors
November 1985
You Can’t Take it With You
Joyce Leslie, Michele Peters, Pam Westover, Associate Directors
February 1986
Barefoot in the Park
R. Driscoll, Director
February 1986
The Near-Sighted Knight and the Far-Sighted Dragon
Alice Mae Meyer, Director
Joyce Leslie, Assistant Director
March 1986
Night Must Fall
Kay Allaire-Jarvis, Director
Carolyn Muench, Assistant Director
November 1986
Shenandoah!
Joyce Lesle, Director
Wayne Smith, Assistant Director
December 1986
Goldilocks and the Christmas Bears
Midge Shaw, Director
Kay Allaire-Jarvis, Assistant Director
February 1987
Forty Carats
Michele Peters, Director
March 1987
Irish Review
Jerry Piper, Director
November 1987
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Michele Peters, Director
February 1988
Leader of the Pack
Barbara Beckers, Director
March 1988
Alone Together
Joyce Leslie, Director
May 1988
The Phantoms of This Opera (Tribute to the Centennial of the Cheboygan Opera House)
Midge Shaw, Directors
Nina Sherwood, Sand Strohshein, Assistant Directors
November 1988
Annie Get Your Gun
Joyce Leslie, Director
Pam Westover, Assistant Director
November 1988
I Ought to Be in Pictures
Barbara Beckers, Director
February 1989
Cole
Barbara Beckers, Director
March 1989
Any Wednesday
Joyce Leslie, Director
July 1989
Dirty Work at the Crossroads
Barbara Beckers, Director
Linda Carlton, Assistant Director
November 1989
Camelot
Michele Peters, Directors
Lewis Crusoe, Assistant Director
February 1990
The Forties in Review: Its times and Its Tunes
Barbara Beckers, Director
February 1900
Beauty and the Lonely Beast
Midge Shaw, Director
June 1990
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Lewis Crusoe, Director
Cindy Precord, Assistant Director
November 1990
Hello Dolly!
Barbara Beckers, Director
Barbara Enos, Cindy Precord, Assistant Directors
June 1991
Nunsense
Midge Shaw, Director
Ray Roth, Music Director
November 1991
My Fair Lady
Lewis Crusoe, Director
Linda Carlton, Assistant Director
February 1992
Here Lies Jeremy Troy
Berti Burmeister, Director
June 1992
Steel Magnolias
Barbara Beckers, Director
Linda Carlton, Assistant Director
October 1992
Grease
David Macqueen, Director
Helen Johnson, Assistant Director
March 1993
Come Blow Your Horn
Michele Peters, Director
November 1993
Oklahoma!
Barbara Beckers, Director
Sharon Gulau, Debra Frato, Assistant Directors
February 1994
Rainbow Review
Ray Roth, Director
March 1994
Not so Grim Fairy Tales
Michele Peters, Director
June-July 1994
Nunsense II
Linda Carlton, Director
Lewis Crusoe, Debra Frato, Assistant Directors
November 1994
Love, Sex, and the I.R.S
Sharon Gulau, Director
Billie Lyon, Assistant Director
February 1995
Du Wop and Bobby Sox
Denny Beach, Director
March 1995
Squabbles
Linda Carlton, Director
June 1995
Silver Anniversary of Musical Memories
Midge Shaw & Committee, Director
November 1995
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Ray Roth, Director
December 1995
Goldilocks and the Christmas Bears
Midge Shaw, Director
February 1996
Board Stiff: The Last of the Lumber Barons
Jim and Donna Masters, Directors
March 1996
The Last of the Class
Norm Edwards, Director
June 1996
God’s Favorite
Sharon Gulau, Director
November 1996
H.M.S. Pinafore
Ray Roth, Director
February 1997
A Musical Collage
Jim and Donna Masters, Directors
March 1997
Eat Your Heart Out
Lisa Elsworth, Director
November 1997
Forever Plaid
Darlene Beauchamp, Director
February 1998
Do You Remember?
Ray Roth and Cindy Plaunt, Directors
March 1998
Around the World in 90 Minutes
Florence Weiss, Director
June 1998
Arsenic and Old Lace
Kay Allaire-Jarvis, Director
November 1998
Fiddler on the Roof
Linda Carlton, Director
February 1999
A Night at the Movies
Jack Barber, Director
March 1999
16 Million
Jewel McRae, Director
June 1999
The Foreigner
Gene Beach, Director
November 1999
Brigadoon
Gene Beach, Director
February 2000
Country Cousin’s Family Reunion
Florence Weiss, Director
March 2000
Swing Into Spring with the Northland Noteables
Ray Roth, Director
July 2000
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Jewell McRae, Director
November 2000
Children of Eden
Ray Roth and Gene Beach, Directors
February 2001
Theatre of the Mind
Jack Barber, Director
March 2001
A Night with the Noteables
Ray Roth, Director
July 2001
Little Shop of Horrors
Gene Beach
November 2001
State Fair
Barbara Beckers, Director
February 2002
My Fatal Valentine
Ray Roth and Michele Peters, Directors
March 2002
Escanaba In Da Moonlight
Alison Pence, Director
November 2002
The Music Man
Ray Roth, Director
February 2003
Star Spangled Girl
Berti Burmeister, Director
March 2003
Move Over Miss Markham
Alison Pence, Director
July 2003
Nunsense III
Barbara Beckers, Director
November 2003
Clue: The Musical
Jill Kkiatkowski, Director
February 2004
Bloodline or Hanged in Their Own Family Tree
Barbara Beckers, Director
March 2004
The Cemetery Club
Alison Pence, Director
November 2004
Nuncrakers: Nunsense IV
Barbara Beckers, Director
February 2005
USO Canteen
Jack Barber, Director
March 2005
More Fun Than Bowling
Kevin Wells, Director
August 2005
USO Canteen
Jack Barber, Director
November 2005
Lil’ Abner
Linda Carlton, Director
February 2006
The Secret of Cell Block #7
Karen Pellenz, Director
March 2006
Love, Swing and All That Jazz
Kevin Wells, Director
November 2006
Anything Goes
Sharon Gulau, Director
February 2007
Broadway is My Beat
Jack Barber, Director
March 2007
Bell, Book & Candle
Alison Pence, Director
August 2007
Broadway is My Beat
Jack Barber, Director
November 2007
Mame
Pat Conaway, Director
February 2008
Misconceptions
Barbara Beckers, Director
March 2008
Farndale Avenue
Alison Pence, Director
August 2008
Pump Boys and Dinettes
Barbara Beckers, Director
November 2008
Moon Over Buffalo
Sharon Gulau, Director
February 2009
Pump Boys and Dinettes
Barbara Beckers, Director
March 2009
We Found Love…Farndale Avenue
Alison Pence, Director
November 2009
Chicago
Jolie Hile, Director
Pat Conaway, Music Director
February 2010
Rich is Better
Cindy St. Clair
March 2010
All Night Strut
Pat Conaway
November 2010
Guys and Dolls
Midge Shaw, Director
Ray Roth, Music Director
Jo Cooley, Choreographer
February 2011
The Escape of Bubbles Malone
George Krawczyk and Diane Schryer, Directors
March 2011
Alone Together Again
Pat Conaway, Director
November 2011
42nd Street
Diane Schryer, Director
Pat Conaway, Assistant Director
George Krawczyk, Music Director
Joni Reed, Choreographer
February 2012
A Tribute to Frank Sinatra
Jack Barber, Director
March 2012
Everybody Loves Opal
Bertie Burmeister, Director
November 2012
The Pajama Game
Pat Conaway, Director
Denise Slaughter, Music Director
Joni Reed, Choreographer
February 2013
Virgil’s Family Reunion
Diane Schryer, Director
March 2013
Meshuggahnuns!
Barbara Beckers, Director
November 2013
White Christmas
Jill Kwiatkowski, Director
George Krawczyk, Music Director
Joni Reed, Choreographer
February 2014
Murder Twice Baked
Diane Schryer, Director
March 2014
Coming Back to Jersey
Cindy St. Clair, Director
November 2014
Damn Yankees
Midge Shaw, Director
Denise Slaughter, Music Director
Joni Reed, Choreographer
February 2015
Hallelujah Girls
Berti Burmeister, Director
March 2015
Virgil and the City Slickers
Diane Schryer, Director
November 2015
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Pat Conaway, Director
George Krawczyk, Music Director
Joni Reed, Choreographer
February 2016
USO Canteen
Jack Barber, Director
George Krawczyk, Music Director
March 2016
The Iliad, the Odyssey and All of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less
Jay Johnson and Steve Brisson, Directors
November 2016
Mary Poppins
Jill Kwiatkowski, Director
Pat Conaway, Music Director
Joni Reed, Choreographer
February 2017
The Foreigner
Diane Schryer, Director
March 2017
Home on the Radio
Jill Kwiatkowski, Director
George Krawczyk, Music Director
October 2017
The Drowsy Chaperone
Pat Conaway, Director
Don Conaway, Music Director
Jo Cooley, Choreographer
February 2018
A Valentine Greeting with Jack, Boots and George
Jack Barber, Director
George Krawczyk, Music Director
March 2018
Alibis: A Murder Mystery
Pam Lalond, Director
October 2018
The Addams Family
Jill Kwiatkowski, Director
Pat Conaway, Music Director
Jo Cooley, Choreographer
February 2019
Happy Groundhog’s Day with Jack, Boots and George
Jack Barber, Director
George Krawczyk, Music Director
March 2019
The Kitchen Witches
Diane Schryer, Director
October 2019
Once Upon a Mattress
Midge Shaw, Director
Jo Cooley, Choreographer
February 2020
Virgil Wins the Lottery
Diane Schryer, Director
August 2021
The 39 Steps
Doug Conaway and Jay Johnson, Directors
March 2022
Drinking Habits
Diane Schryer, Director
October 2022
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Doug Conaway, Director
February 2023
The Second Time Around
Amy Maltby, Director
March 2023
The Kitchen Witches
Pat Esther-Schmidt, Director
November 2023
Scrooge!
Pam Lalond & Jay Johnston, Directors
Kim Staffan, Choreographer
February 2024
The One That Got Away
Randy Maltby, Director
March 2024
Barefoot in the Park
Lawson Mann, Director
November 2024
Sister Act
Pat Conaway, Director
Thanks to member Michelle Peters for compiling the initial list.