Mostly musicals on tap this week

Except for one British comedy and a puppet show, this shapes up to be a mostly musical week.

• "ENCHANTED APRIL," adapted by playwright Matthew Barber from Elizabeth von Arnim's 1921 novel (and filmed twice, in 1935 and 1992), is the third of this summer's four Old Lyric Repertory Company productions in Logan.

The romantic comedy revolves around four unacquainted Englishwomen who share the cost of renting an Italian castle. Two of the central characters are frustrated housewives looking to escape a dreary Hampstead winter. Their idyllic plans are compromised by two other women who join them — a staid widow and a free-spirited young noblewoman.

Directed by Lynda Linford, the cast includes Tracy Hill as Lottie, Keri Hostetler as Rose, Kindra Steenerson as Lady Caroline Bramble, Jackie W. Fullmer as Mrs. Graves and Maribeth Evensen-Hengge as Costanza, with Lego Louis as Frederick Arnott, Lee Daily as Mellersh Wilton and Phillip R. Lowe as Antony.

Performances are Thursday-Saturday this week in the Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center, and July 23 and 31 at 8 p.m., with Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. on July 10 and 31. Tickets are $15 for adults, $13 for senior citizens and USU faculty/staff and $10 for all USU students or youths under 18. Matinee tickets are $10, $6 and $5 (435-797-0305).

• "THE SECRET GARDEN," Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon's Tony Award-winning musical version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's book, opens Friday and continues through July 23 at the SCERA Shell amphitheater, Orem.

Directed by Neal Johnson, the cast includes Marissa Smith as Mary Lennox, Cindy Winkel as Lily, Laura Money Brockbank as Martha, Tony Winkel as Dickon, Jordan Allen as Colin, Joel Gillespie as Archie and Chad Hardy as Craven.

Performances are 8 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays. Tickets are $10-$14 (depending on location of seating) for adults and $8-$12 for children, students and senior citizens (225-2569 or 225-2787 or www.ufoc.org).

Another production of "The Secret Garden" is being produced July 8-Aug. 5 as one of four entries in the Utah Festival Opera series in Logan, with Michael Ballam as Archibald Craven.

• "TRIUMPH OF LOVE," a 1997 Broadway musical based on a classic commedia d'ell arte play by Marivaux, a contemporary of Moliere, is the second of this season's three productions for Utah Musical Theatre, a summer stock series based in Ogden.