Enjoy theater this summer, attending the stage-testing premiere of this new St. Croix Valley musical supporting the creative works of two UWRF instructors:

Director Kathy Welch, Stage and Screen Arts

Playwright/Librettist Marybeth Lorbiecki, M.A., English Department

These stage-testing performances are a crucial step in bringing “Lucette!” to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a UWRF Travel Abroad experience next summer.

All is not well in the forests where Paul Bunyan and his lumberjacks are cutting trees. The tall tale woman, Lucette, must flee along with her animal friends. Now she must go in search of a new place where she can belong. When Paul (with Babe the Blue Ox) and the lumberjacks come to her new community, Lucette is upset. Trouble is, Paul has fallen in love! Lucette is determined to teach Paul and all the lumberjacks a lesson or two with the support of her girlfriends and enormous cow Nel. Humorous calamities pile up, and no one knows how things will end up. Will Lucette be able to save any of her tree and animal friends? This dynamic new musical with an environmental twist integrates a wide range of American folk music styles made contemporary in memorable singable songs.