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Marcia Thomas as Billie Holiday, Freeport

March 29, Thursday, 7pm, “Guys and Dolls,” musical based on an adaptation of Damon Runyon’s short stories written in the 1920’s, concerned gangsters, gamblers and other character of the New York underworld, $8/general, $5/students, Marcia Buker Elementary School Auditorium, 132 Main Street, Richmond.  FMI:  207-798-9348,www.richmondme.org.

 

March 29, Thursday, 7:30pm, “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Marcia Thomas as Billie Holiday with Flash Allen on piano, a fictional account of the final appearance by Billie Holiday at a seedy night club in Philadelphia, $19/general, $15/seniors and students, Freeport Factory Stage, 5 Depot Street, Freeport.   FMI:  207-865-5505,www.freeportfactory.com.

 

March 30, Friday, 7pm, Hot Country Nights, country style music and laughs, proceeds benefit the Class of 2012 and Brunswick High School faculty member Mary Norbert, $8, $5/seniors and students, Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School, 116 Maquoit Road, Brunswick.  FMI:  207-319-1910, www.mainetoday.com.

 

March 30, Friday, 7:30pm, Downeast Country Dance Festival, contra dance with Franklin County Fiddlers and Nor’easter, attend dance, instrumental and singing workshops and family activities, play in the festival orchestra and jam sessions, $12, $8/ages 11-21, Mt. Ararat Middle School, Topsham.  FMI: 207-563-8953, www.deffa.org.

 

March 30, Friday, 7:30pm, Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, who are manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set, with Young Company, professional actors and community members, $12, Theater Project, 14 School Street, Brunswick.  FMI:  207-729-8584, www.theaterproject.com.

 

March 31, Saturday, 7pm, Penobscot Bay Singers Annual Spring Concert with the Mount View Chamber Singers, diverse program of short choral works, pieces range from sweet and inspirational spirituals and ballads to rowdy sea chanties, $12, Belfast Unitarian Church, 37 Miller Street, Belfast.  FMI: 207-338-4482, www.uubelfast.org.

 

April 4, Wednesday, 12pm, The Met Opera:  Live in HD, Massenet’s “Manon,” Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s production,  $23, $21/seniors, Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater Street, Damariscotta.  FMI:  207-563-3424, www.atthelincoln.org.

 

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