OGUNQUIT — The Ogunquit Playhouse has just announced its 2015 Summer Season and there may be a great deal of dancing in the isles when viewers see the new lineup.

Five musicals, “Sister Act,” “Victor/Victoria,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” “Million Dollar Quartet” and “Saturday Night Fever,” will be locally produced on stage. A sixth event, the holiday musical “White Christmas,” will be co-produced with the Portsmouth Music Hall in December. In all, the six performances make 2015 the longest season in playhouse history.

It is also Bradford Kenney’s 10th season as executive artistic director of the playhouse. Since his arrival in 2006, Kenney has extended the length of Ogunquit’s summer theater season and grown box-office sales from 40,000 to over 100,000, last year.

“We are heading into my 10th anniversary season here at the Ogunquit Playhouse and for that, I wanted a lineup that included some of the most exciting dance shows and newest Broadway titles for our stage,” said Kenney of the shows he selected for the playhouse’s 83rd season.

Built in 1933 by Broadway showman Walter Hartwig and his wife Maude, the venue is New England’s largest, self-producing, nonprofit summer theater playhouse. It has a long history of leveraging its close proximity to New York’s talent to deliver Broadway-caliber productions to summer tourists and Maine residents alike.

According to Kenney, the Ogunquit Playhouse is one of only three independent regional theaters in New England and of all of them, Ogunquit is the only theater actually built to be a Broadway theater.

“Part of the draw to the Ogunquit Playhouse is that all of the shows performed are locally produced and casted in Maine,” he said.

The playhouse is the first regional theater in America to produce the stage version of Alan Menken’s blockbuster, “Sister Act,” as well as the 2011 award-winning “Million Dollar Quartet,” based on the true story of the 1956 impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Hunter Foster, the original Broadway director, will also direct the Ogunquit performance of “Million Dollar Quartet” in August.

While this is Kenney”s 10th anniversary, 2015 is also the 20th anniversary of the original production of “Victor/Victoria,” based on the original Blake Edwards film starring Julie Andrews playing a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be a woman in Paris in 1934. The Ogunquit version of “Victor/Victoria” will run in July.

Sally Struthers, one of the playhouse’s most regular stars to grace the stage, is set to return as lead comic actress in “Nice Work If you Can Get It.” Set in the roaring 20s during prohibition, the musical was nominated in 2012 for 10 Tony Awards, and won two. It features many popular Gershwin tunes including, “Let’s Call the Whole thing Off,” “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” and “Someone to Watch Over Me.” The original touring Broadway sets and costumes will be used in Ogunquit.

“We are delighted to welcome back our good friend Sally Struthers,” said Cheryl Farley, director of Marketing and Public Relations for the playhouse. “She’ll be doing what she does best, stirring up trouble on stage. Hilarity is in store.”

Both Kenney and Farley are excited to be the first regional theater to produce the August production of “Million Dollar Quartet.” The 2011 show won Tony awards for it’s biographical portrayal of the famed recording sessions that brought together rock-and roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time to perform what critics called the “one of the greatest jam sessions of all time.”

In October, the playhouse will become one of only a handful of regional theaters in the country to produce “Saturday Night Fever” on stage. According to Farley, this version will feature revised musical arrangements and dazzling choreography.

In a year of milestones, the playhouse added one more last fall when the Ogunquit Playhouse was upgraded from a Regionally Historic building to a National Historic recognition distinction. Part of that significance was due to the intimate setting that the playhouse offers visitors and the ability to produce high-end theater.

“It’s an environment that provides a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said Kenney in a previous interview about the attraction people have to seeing popular Broadway shows in Ogunquit.

“In bigger auditoriums everything happens four to five feet from the stage line. When you come into our playhouse, the stage juts out into the audience, and for one night you really create an intimacy between the actors and the audience,” Kenney said.

Tickets are available for Ogunquit Playhouse members and will go on sale to the pubic on April 1 at 10 a.m.. Prices start at $44 per show. For more information, visit the website www.ogunquitplayhouse.com or call the box office at 646-5511.

— Tracey Collins can be reached at miahreporter@journaltribune.com.