Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine March 23-29

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Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine March 23-29

Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine March 23-29

“Bangor Flower Show,” Cross Insurance Center, Bangor

March 24-26, Friday-Sunday, 12-6pm/Fri, 10am-6pm/Sat, 10am-5pm/Sun, “BDN Garden Show,” break loose from winter’s grip with a weekend of music, gardening, food, and fun. This year come see all your favorite parts of the garden show. Enjoy the music, vendors and beautifully landscaped gardens on display. Don’t miss your opportunity to turn your garden dreams into reality. The Cross Insurance Center will be completely transformed, for one weekend only, into beautiful gardenscapes and a family-fun area. From flowers to stone and from demonstrations to vendor booths, we have it all, $8/door, free/under 12, Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main Street, Bangor. FMI: 800-745-3000, bdnmainegardenshow.com.
March 24-26, Friday-Sunday, 5pm/Fri, 4pm/Sat, 11am/Sun, “Dramatic Academy Presents: The Neve Ending Story,” join Bastian, a lonely boy who finds friendship, danger, and endless adventure in the pages of a magical book, this play brings to life Fantastica, a land of stories and a world in peril, populated by dragons, werewolves, a childlike empress, and Atreyu, a heroic young orphan, embark on the quest of a lifetime, $10-$12, Penobscot Theatre, 131 Main St., Bangor. FMI: 207-942-3333, www.penobscottheatre.org.
March 24, Friday, 7pm, “Amadeus-NT Live,” Lucian Msamati (Luther, Game of Thrones, NT Live: The Comedy of Errors) plays Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, broadcast live from the National Theatre, and with live orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God. What is NT Live? National Theatre Live transmits the best of British theatre live from London to screens around the world. The broadcasts are filmed in front of a live audience, with cameras carefully positioned throughout the theatre to ensure cinema audiences get the best-seat-in-the-house view. Productions are transmitted via satellite to the Collin Center, then projected onto a high definition screen — one of the largest in the state, see site for ticketing details, Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono. FMI: 207-581-1755, www.collinscenterforthearts.com.
March 24-26 and 29, 8pm/Fri.-Sat, 3pm/Sun, 7pm/Wed, “Papermaker,” during a paper mill strike in a small Maine town, the lives of two families collide and tensions rise around a company CEO and a man building a wooden ark in his yard. Criss-crossing the lines between workers and management, novelist Monica Wood’s first play is a revealing drama about family, loyalty, and the dignity and tragedy of mill-town life, see site for ticketing details, Penobscot Theatre, 131 Main Street, Bangor. FMI: 207-942-3333, www.penobscottheatre.org.
March 25-26, Saturday-Sunday, 9am-4pm, “Maine Maple Weekend at Bob’s Sugar House,” sugaring demonstrations, tours, samples of maple syrup on ice cream, pancakes, baked beans, candy, popcorn, taffy, maple butter, and more; door prizes, discounts, balloons, and the sweetest day in the neighborhood, Bob’s Sugarhouse, 262 E Main Street, Dover Foxcroft. FMI: 207-564-2145, mainemaplesyrup.com.
March 25, Saturday, 1-4pm, “The Met: Idomeneo,” a live broadcast from the Metropolitan Theater in New York. Mozart’s first operatic masterpiece returns to the Met in the classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production, conducted by Music Director James Levine. The superb ensemble includes Matthew Polenzani as the king torn by a rash vow; mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of his noble son Idamante; soprano Nadine Sierra as Ilia; and soprano Elza van den Heever as the volatile Elettra, who loves Idamante to the bounds of madness, $23/adults, $18/seniors, $2/facility fee added to tickets, Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono. FMI: 207-581-1755, www.collinscenterforthearts.com.
March 25-26, Saturday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Sat, 2pm/Sun, “University Singers Concert,” University Singers is the premier vocal ensemble in the School of Performing Arts at the University of Maine, selected by audition, the 60-member group is comprised of both music majors and students studying other disciplines across campus, the group tours throughout New England every spring and to Europe every four years, the Singers will perform a selection of classical and contemporary music, tickets for the Minsky performances are $9, Minsky, University of Maine, Orono. FMI: 207-581-1755, www.umaine.edu.

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