Bay Street Theater, The Gateway unveil summer lineup

The collective judgment of celebrity groundhogs calls for another three weeks of winter. But since spring training has sprung, it’s not too early to think about summertime — or summer theater — at Long Island’s two leading seasonal companies, which recently announced their seasons.

BAY STREET THEATER, SAG HARBOR

• “The Man in the Ceiling,” a world premiere musical by Pulitzer cartoonist Jules Feiffer and Andrew Lippa, Tony-winning producer of “Hamilton,” opens the Sag Harbor theater’s season May 30. Based on Feiffer’s semi-autobiographical novel, “Man in the Ceiling,” was featured last April in a reading during Bay Street’s New Play Festival. “We’re thrilled to bring a show we helped nurture to a fully realized production,” says Bay Street artistic director Scott Schwartz. It runs through June 25.
• Schwartz directs “Intimate Apparel,” July 4-30, a play by Pulitzer-winning author Lynn Nottage (“Ruined”), which introduces us to an African-American seamstress who in 1905 becomes a success making lingerie for society ladies and “ladies of the night.”
• Shakespeare closes Bay Street’s season with “As You Like It,” directed by Tony winner John Doyle (2005 “Sweeney Todd” revival), Aug. 8-Sept. 3. Enjoy again the cross-dressing adventures of Rosalind, one of Shakespeare’s most spirited women, as she finds romance in the enchanted Forest of Arden.

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THE GATEWAY, BELLPORT/PATCHOGUE

• The classic millennial-generation musical “Rent” comes of age. (It opened on Broadway in 1996.) The Gateway launches its season May 17 with the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning musical inspired by Puccini’s “La Boheme” and marked by both real-life and fictional tragedy. Its creator, Adelphi alum Jonathan Larson, died of an undiagnosed aortic condition the night before his show’s Off-Broadway debut. Like his characters, he was a young artist struggling to get by in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Through June 3.
• The 1999 revue “Swing!” celebrates the music of such legends as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Benny Goodman. Their repertoire, including “It Don’t Mean a Thing,” “Stompin’ at the Savoy” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” has enjoyed a renaissance on TV’s “Dancing With the Stars” and “So You Think You Can Dance.” June 7 through June 24.
• “On the Town,” the musical boasting top-notch creative-team pedigree — Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green — drops anchor in Bellport June 28-July 15. It’s the musical-comedy tale of three sailors on shore leave during World War II for a night on the town in “New York, New York,” title of the iconic song heard at every Yankees game, crooned by Frank Sinatra.
• The Gateway moves to Patchogue July 19-Aug. 5 for the jukebox musical based on disco-era hits by ABBA, among them “Dancing Queen” and “Winner Takes It All.” It is about a mom who’s unable to tell her daughter on the eve of her wedding which of three ex-beaus is eligible to give her away. The prospective fathers of the bride all show up. Hence, the exclamation point in “Mamma Mia!”
• Returning to Gateway Playhouse, the season winds up Aug. 23-Sept. 9 with “Little Shop of Horrors.” The Off-Broadway classic by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman satirizes the horror-film genre to a Motown and doo-wop beat in such campy songs as “Suddenly Seymour.” He’s the flower-shop clerk who tends a voraciously carnivorous plant named after his true love, Audrey. Be careful what you feed Audrey II.