“Hair”-National Broadway Tour, Collins Arts Center, Bangor

April 25-26, Thursday-Friday, 7pm/Thursday, 8pm/Friday, “Hair”-National Broadway Tour, hailed as “intense, unadulterated joy,” tells the story of a group of friends choosing to speak up and sing out in celebration of love, life and freedom, a few minutes of nudity under dim lights, $53, Collins Arts Center, UMO, Orono. FMI: 1-800-622-TIXX, www.collinscenterforthearts.com.
April 25, Thursday, 7:30-8:30pm, Jazz Ensemble Concert, by University of Maine School of Performing Arts, guest artist Bryan Davis, trumpet, directed by Jack Burt, $9, Minsky Recital Hall, UMaine Campus, Orono. FMI: 207-581-4700, www.umaine.edu.
April 26-28, Friday-Sunday, 3pm/Friday and Sunday, 7pm/Friday and Saturday, 10am and 2pm/Saturday, 11am/Sunday, Anah Shrine Circus, acts include comedian Johnny Peers, jugglers from Argentina, aerial star, Castle’s Performing Bears, motorcycle globe act and more, $8/adult advance, $4/child advance, $10/adult day-of-show, $5/child day-of-show, Bangor Civic Center, 100 Dutton Street, Bangor. FMI: 207-942-2254, www.anahshriners.com.
April 26-28, Friday-Sunday, 6pm/Friday and Saturday, 2pm/Sunday, “The Little Prince,” the beloved classic comes to the stage, tells the story of a world-weary aviator whose plane crashes, stranding him in the middle of the Sahara Desert which leads to a transforming experience, Penobscot Theatre Presentation, $10/adults, $5/12 and under, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main Street, Bangor. FMI: 207-942-3333, www.penobscottheatre.org.
April 27, Saturday, 7:30-8:30pm, Baroque Orchestra of Maine (BOOM), baroque solo and trio sonata selections, performed on period baroque instruments by composers J.S. Bach, Corelli, Castello, Vivaldi, Weiss and more, $20/adults, free/students, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 225 French Street, Bangor. FMI: 207-947-0156, www.fiddleheadmusic.org/boom/
April 28, Saturday, 12pm, Met Opera: Giulio Cesare, David McVicar’s second new production of the season is this dynamic staging, a hit at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2005, which incorporates elements of Baroque theater and 19th-century British imperialism to illuminate the opera’s themes of love, was, and empire building, $28/adults, $18/students, Collins Center for the Arts, Orono. FMI:  1-800-622-TIXX, www.collinscenterforthearts.com.
April 27, Saturday, 7:30-8:30pm, Orchestra Concert, by University of Maine School of Performing Arts, $9, Minsky Recital Hall, UMaine Campus, Orono. FMI: 207-581-4700, www.umaine.edu.