Three musicals are planned at Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University’s outdoor summer theater, for its 57th season.

“Grease” opens the season on June 12 and runs through June 27. The Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey musical takes audiences back to the late 1950s at Rydell High School, led by the duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys’ and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers.

It includes the songs “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightnin’,” “It’s Raining on Prom Night” and “Alone at the Drive-In Movie.” More than 50 years after its Broadway debut, “Grease” remains a community, high school and college theater staple.

Up next is the Bill Russell-Henry Krieger musical “Side Show,” the story of conjoined twins whose union brings them fame but denies them love. The show, which is told almost entirely in song, only lasted for a few months in its initial Broadway run in 1997, but it developed a cult following.

It will be staged July 8 through 18.

The season concludes with “Brigadoon,” running from July 25 through Aug. 9.

The Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe classic tells the story of a New Yorker named Tommy Albright who arrives in a mysterious and magical Scottish village called Brigadoon, which only appears for one day every 100 years. He falls in love with a beautiful villager, but he has to choose whether to return to old life or stay in Brigadoon forever.

The show also is a major inspiration for the Apple TV+ series and current Broadway hit “Schmigadoon.”

Porthouse Theatre is located at 3143 O’Neil Road on the grounds of Blossom Music Center in Bath Township. Individual tickets and season subscriptions are available online at www.kent.edu/porthouse/tickets and by calling 330-672-3884.