Romance, community theater, a ghost and more feature in a homegrown production set on Whidbey Island that opens next week as the closing show of OutCast Productions’ 2025 season.

Ten years ago, Freeland residents Ken Merrell and Eileen Soskin collaborated to create “Pasture-ized,” a musical in two acts that had a short run at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island back in 2015. Merrell wrote the script and lyrics, while Soskin provided the music for each song.

A Broadway producer and director in his golden years moves to Whidbey after a heart attack, presumably to rest and recuperate. But he can’t quite leave show business behind, and instead of moving into a cushy retirement home as desired by his family, he purchases a run-down community theater and gets back to work

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