OGUNQUIT —Film, TV and stage star Michele Lee will headline the Ogunquit Playhouse’s production of “Summer of Love” on June 22-July 16.

The new musical by Roger Bean revolves around a conservative bride who runs away from the altar and into a VW bus full of hippies from Haight-Ashbury. With a little help from them and dropouts from San Francisco, she comes to realize she has to make her own kind of music.

Lee will portray Mama, the earth mother of the Golden Gate Park band of hippies.

Featured will be music from the late 1960s by such influential artists of the love generation as The Mamas and the Papas, Donovan, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane.

Songs will include “Dream a Little Dream of Me,” “Get Together,” “Piece of My Heart,” “White Rabbit,” “Spinning Wheel” and “Happy Together.”

Lee has starred on Broadway as well as recorded and performed with legends of the entertainment industry. She is best known for her Emmy-nominated role as Karen MacKenzie in the CBS soap opera “Knots Landing,” the fifth-longest running prime time dramatic series in television history.

Discovered by David Merrick, Lee starred with Metropolitan Opera’s Cesare Siepe in the musical “Bravo Giovanni” at age 18. This led to national recognition for her breakout role as Rosemary in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” opposite Robert Morse, which led to the film version in 1967.

Carl Reiner’s cult classic, “The Comic,” with Dick Van Dyke, followed along with her role in Disney’s “The Love Bug,” the highest grossing film of the year.

Lee appeared in Universal’s 2004 romantic comedy “Along Came Polly,” opposite Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston.

In 1974, she appeared on the Broadway stage in Michael Bennett’s musical “Seesaw.” Her performance garnered a Tony nomination, as well as the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics Award for Best Actress. In 2002, she completed a long run in Charles Busch’s Broadway hit “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” opposite Linda Lavin and Tony Roberts. Her performance earned another Tony nomination.

Lee became the first woman to produce, direct, write and star in a motion picture for television in 1995, and has produced numerous films for television, including CBS’s Emmy-nominated “Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story.”

Lee opened in New York in “Love, Loss & What I Wore,” written by her favorite writer-director Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron. A concert with Michael Feinstein followed at Carnegie Hall in February 2010.

The Ogunquit Playhouse has performances Tuesday through Sunday, through Oct. 23. For tickets and showtimes, visit www.ogunquitplayhouse.org or call 800-982-2787.

Other shows at Ogunquit

“The Music Man,” July 20-Aug. 20

“Legally Blonde, the Musical,” Aug. 24-Sept. 17

“Miss Saigon,” Sept. 21-Oct. 23