It’s theater season again in the North End and at long last the Roving Players won’t have to roam anymore.

After forming as a band of truly “roving” players putting on shows in parks and centers in Poulsbo, Bainbridge, Kingston and Bangor, the North End theater group had found a stable home for its productions in the Indianola Clubhouse.

Then last year about this time as such troupes around the county were revving up for the fall season, the 75-year-old Clubhouse went under the knife for a $370,000 complete renovation which put it out of commission as a venue for the Players.

So, without a place to perform they cancelled their fall production. And as work lingered past estimated deadlines the Players had to move its most profitable play — the holiday production — “A Christmas Story in Kingston” to a double room at Camp Indianola.

Reactions were mixed.

Then once again, in the spring the Roving Players were without a space to perform.

“The hiatus has been very difficult” said Roving Players board president Ken Stephens. “Without a chance to put on a show, it’s hard to get people interested in coming out to do a show with you.”

“We’ve had to do fundraisers just to keep ourselves afloat,” said director Sue Michaelis.

Luckily, the Players won’t have to battle that stigma for the foreseeable future as the Clubhouse renovations were finished over the summer. Just in time for the Roving Players’ triumphant return — cue the trumpets — “Bell, Book and Candle.”

So it’s not exactly a triumphant play in the grand scheme of things. “Bell, Book and Candle” is probably remembered more for its 1958 on-screen version starring James Stewart and Kim Novak than the 1950 play by John Van Druten. But still it’s a grand show for a return, Michaelis said.

“I’ve always loved this show,” she said, noting she’s been wanting to perform it for more than 10 years and had it cast since last year’s fall false start. “It’s a romantic comedy about a witch who loses her powers when she falls in love … something right up my alley — a little different, it’s got a little zing to it.”

It’s got the air of the late ‘60s, early ‘70s television show Bewitched starring Elizabeth Montgomery — in fact some even surmise “Bell, Book and Candle” was the inspiration for the show — but the Roving Players will be putting their own true-to-script touches on it, on stage.

“I don’t think Hollywood did it justice,” Michaelis said. “It was definitely a Doris Day vehicle.”

She noted her dissatisfaction with what she perceived as flat characters — even though the leading role was played by Kim Novak, not Doris Day — so much so that she asked her cast not to see it so they wouldn’t come in with those characters as a preconception.

“The characters are much more vibrant than they did in the movie,” she said.

For the Roving Players, Nancy Frye will be in character as the witch — Ms. Gillian Holroyd, while Will Stewart plays her love interest and next door neighbor Shephard Henderson. Roving Players president Stephens has been cast as a drunkard author, Sidney Redlitch, who’s next project is researching and writing a book about witchery while LeOnna Small plays the crazy old Aunt Queenie.