When Vashon native Elise Ericksen returned to the island last September after a 17-year hiatus, one of the first things she did was to present Drama Dock with an appealing idea for a show: singers and dancers performing a revue of Frank Sinatra favorites. Drama Dock gave two thumbs up. “Fly Me to the Moon,” a fundraiser for Drama Dock, will open Saturday, Jan. 7, at the Vashon High School theater.

The show is a song and dance review, but Ericksen, 35, who conceived the idea, choreographed the dances and directed the original production, said the show is more than a concert. The setting is a café lounge. The singers are the lounge performers, while the dancers are the characters of the show. There is some storytelling, Ericksen said, but she hopes it’s not too obvious.

“I’d like the audience to come, enjoy the show and take away what they will,” she said. “They’ll see different interactions. It’s more than a story line from beginning to end; it is an exploration of the characters.”

The first half of the revue takes place on a casual Saturday night. The second half occurs the following Saturday, with a more formal and elegant ambiance. Together, four male and four female vocalists sing 25 songs, with six dancers performing during 19 of them. And the concept? It’s all Frank Sinatra.

“All the songs are his popular tunes,” Ericksen said, “all sung by the group, in duets or solos, with both men and women singing.”

Ericksen’s inspiration for the show came from American choreographer Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show, “Come Fly Away,” which featured Tharp’s dancers and Sinatra’s recorded voice accompanied by a live orchestra.

“Fly Me to the Moon” will have singers covering Sinatra’s songs, with Evan Stoltz on piano, Todd Zimberg on drums and Barry Cooper on trumpet.

“It will be a small band on stage,” she said. “The singers will be downstage with the dancers. They’ll be a lot going on, should be interesting.”

All but two of the performers are Vashon’s own, including Steven Denlinger, Marita Ericksen, Martin Feveyear, Shannon Flora, Lauri Hennessey, Gretchen Neffenger and Michael Shook. Dancers include Sarah Cummings White, Emmi Sarkola, Lori Spears and Erica Wagner. John De Groen, Adrienne Mildon and Xavier Ajeto will both sing and dance.

Guest dancers Katelyn Kollinzas, Rachel Singer and Ismael Sonanes hail from Portland’s PDX Dance Collective, which Ericksen founded when she lived there. For the past five years, she worked with PDX choreographing and dancing many styles of dance — contemporary, ballet, modern and musical theater. All of the styles, including some ballroom, will be used in the show.

Ericksen will not be performing, as she prefers to bow out when directing and choreographing. Nonetheless, she is excited about the show and this time in her life.

“Life is coming full circle,” she said.

The dancer, choreographer and director moved back to the island after the death of her father, John, a former pastor of the Vashon Lutheran Church. Her mother, Marita, is well-known on the island as a director of children’s musicals and as a soloist and singer with Vashon Island Chorale. Ericksen and her young son returned to the island to help fill the family’s large house.

“Mom didn’t want to sell the house,” Ericksen explained. “She has a good community here.”

And so, it seems, does Ericksen. Friends from her youth either still live on the island or are soon moving back, including several she met and befriended through dance.

“My friend Gemma danced at the Blue Heron (and lives on the island). I danced at Vashon Dance Academy and the park district. My best friend, Erica Wagner, and I put on our own ballet in high school, called ‘The Year of the Fairies,’” she said. “She’s moving to the island in January, so she’s in the show, as well as Sarah Cummings, who danced with us growing up. So it’s really full circle.”

Full circle and perhaps all in the family, too. After “Fly Me to the Moon,” Ericksen, who choreographed and was stage assistant for the fall youth musical, “Getting to Know … The Sound of Music,” directed by her mother, will be involved in the spring with another youth musical, “Peter Pan,” also directed by Marita.

“It’s fun to do projects with adults, and fun to work with the kids on the musicals,” Ericksen said. “I”d like to have a dance collective eventually on the island. When you have a collective, everybody shares in the work and choreography.”

As for “Fly Me to the Moon,” Ericksen said she thinks it will be a good show.

“It’s right after the holidays, in the new year, a feel-good time,” she said.