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Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine Nov. 12-18

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“August: Osage County,” Lakes Region High School, Naples

Nov. 12-14, Thursday-Saturday, 7pm/Thurs.-Sat, 2pm/Sun, “August: Osage County,” the Lake Region High School Drama Club under the direction of Eugene Long invites you to an evening of dark comedic, thought-provoking theater when they present Tracy Letts ’”August: Osage County,” $8/adults advance, $6/seniors and students advance, $20/families advance, $2 more at the door, Lake Region High School, 1877 Roosevelt Trail, Naples. FMI: 207-518-1348, www.lakeregionschools.org.
Nov. 12-15, Thursday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Thurs.-Sat, 2pm/Sun, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” Leading the cast through “Sondheim’s romp through Rome” is local actor/musician Steve Jones playing Pseudolus, salve to Senex. Steve Sessions and Carol Jones portray Senex and Domina. As their son Hero and his intended Philia are Jacob Michaud and Janelle Raven. Andrew Turner plays fellow slave and comic relief, Hysterium. Erroneous, a befuddled old man is played (with almost no acting!) by Dennis Twitchell, and super-soldier Miles Gloriosus by Jon Potter. Elton Cole plays Lycus from the House of Lycus.Rounding out the cast is Proteans and Courtesans are Chris Ivey, Jack Gentempto, Colbi Donovan, Sandra Fickett, Kristen Short, Maddie Prentice, Ciara Nadeau, Corrine Turner and Justice Pittman, $6/opening night, $12/adults, $10/seniors and students, Norway Grange, 15 Whitman St, Norway. FMI: 207-739-6200, www.ohmpaa.com.
Nov. 13-15, Friday-Sunday, 7pm/Fri. and Sat, 2pm/Sun, “Peter Pan the Musical,” based on J. M. Barrie’s timeless children’s classic. Meet Peter, Tinkerbell, a band of bungling pirates, a ticking crocodile, and the villainous Captain Hook in this high-flying TONY Award-winning musical performed around the world for 60 years, presented by Windham High School, $10-$14, Windham Performing Arts Center, 406 Gray Rd, Windham. FMI: 207-893-1742, www.windham.k12.me.us/wsd_hs.
Nov. 13, Friday, 7:30pm, “34th Asbury Short Film Concert,” back by popular demand for a fifth year, New York City’s longest-running short film exhibition returns with an entirely new selection of award-winning shorts from all around the world, Jason Reitman (Director: Juno, Thank You For Smoking, Up in the Air) calls it, “The best short film show I’ve ever seen,” $10/Adults, $5/Students, Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, 18 Bradley St., Fryeburg. FMI: 207-935-9232, www.fryeburgacademy.org.
Nov. 13-15, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Fri. and Sat, 5pm/Sunday, “Our Town,” welcome to Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Sweethearts Emily Webb and George Gibbs are due to marry soon, Joe and Howie deliver the daily newspaper and milk, and the children scurry off to school. Love, life, and death move along just the same as paint dries and the rooster crows. In Thornton Wilder’s classic American play, their town is every town, and the banalities of daily life are rarely seen as the precious, awful, and wonderful miracles of existence they truly are. This Pulitzer Prize winning drama strips the stage of artifice and draws the audience into the universality of human existence, urging us to celebrate “every moment,” presented by USM Dept. of Theatre, $8/students, $11/seniors, $15/general, Russell Hall, USM Gorham Campus, 37 College Ave, Gorham. FMI: 207-780-5151, www.usm.maine.edu/theatre/our-town.
Nov. 14, Saturday, 9am-3pm, “Annual Church Christmas Craft Fair,” offering fine crafts, fresh wreaths, baked goods and fudge, silent auction, books, knit items, homemade soup and lobster roll lunch, free, North Windham Union Church, 723 Roosevelt Trail, Windham. FMI: 207-892-6142, www.uuc.windham.org.
Nov. 15, Sunday, 5pm, “University Chorale: Hope and Redemption,” the University Chorale’s Hope and Redemption concert focuses on choral music that addresses these two themes through many musical time periods and perspectives. Sacred music from as early as the baroque period through modern art music are incorporated into this concert. Featured composers include: Handel, Tschesnekoff, Thompson, Brahms, Ames, Whitacre, and Dawson, free, Corthell Concert Hall, USM, 37 College St, Gorham. FMI: 207-780-5151, usm.maine.edu/music/events.

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