Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine June 23-29

Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Region of Maine June 23-29
June 23, 2016
Out and About for the York/Sanford Lakes Region of Maine June 23-29
June 23, 2016

Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine June 23-29

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“Cyrano,” Monmouth Theater, Monmouth

June 23-26 and 29, Thursday-Sunday and Wednesday, 2pm/Wed, 4pm/Sun, 8pm/Thurs-Sat, “Always….Patsy Cline,” A love letter to miss Patsy Cline featuring over 27 of her songs! You’ll fall to pieces if you miss this brilliant retelling of the legendary singer’s all too short career. Always, Patsy Cline tells the true story of the friendship and pen-pal relationship that developed between Patsy Cline and Houston housewife Louise Seger, her most devoted fan. Louise narrates the story of the day in 1961 when she met Patsy at the Esquire Ballroom. Afterward, Patsy kept in touch with her number one fan by writing her long hand-written letters until the day she died tragically in a plane crash. She signed the letters “(Love) Always, Patsy Cline.” Enjoy…and even sing along…to 27 songs including Sweet Dreams and Walkin’ After Midnight. Nance Carbone, a Lakewood favorite, will reprise her role as Patsy. You would be Crazy to miss this one, $17-$35, Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road, Madison. FMI: 207-474-7176, www.lakewoodtheater.org.
June 24, Friday, 10:30am-1:30pm, “Fete Nationale/St. John the Baptist Feast Day Celebration,” the Gendron Franco Center, in association with the Quebéc Delegation to Boston, the Franco-American Collection at USM/LAC, The Maine Franco-American Genealogical Society and Place St-Louis in Auburn, will host an event in celebration of Franco-American and Quebéc culture and heritage. The event will start with a social hour and cash bar in the Center’s Heritage Hall at 10:30 a.m. At 11:30 a.m., a feast day luncheon will be served, followed by a musical celebration of the event in the Performance Hall, $10, Franco Center, Heritage Hall, 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston. FMI: 207-689-2000, www.francocenter.org.
June 24, Friday, 2pm and 7pm, “SNAFU! Comedy Group,” Maine residents Michael Menes and Leland Faulkner both have made their livelihoods as professional variety entertainers and are both well-established solo artists. But in their new two-man show, SNAFU! They conspire to bring to life Murphy’s Law. What can go wrong, will go wrong as these “Masters of the Ridiculous” explore a collection of comedic props, physical gags, and imaginative illusions. The show is in the tradition of the classic American comedy teams like Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Suitable for all ages, the performance also includes hand shadows, juggling acts, and audience participation, free, Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Foundation, 371 Sawyer Road, Greene. FMI: 207-946-5311, www.sawyer-foundation.com.
June 24, Friday, 7pm, “‘Poor Howard’ Stith and Mike ‘Bullfrog’ Rogers,” veteran Blues performers will play the bottleneck steel guitar and harmonica playing the blues with all the passion and flair of two old troubadours, $10, Vienna Union Hall, 5 Vienna Mountain Rd., Vienna. FMI: 207-293-2674, www.viennamaine.org.
June 24-26, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Fri. and Sat, 2pm/Sun, “Are You Being Served?” Lovers of innuendo and British humor, Flying Circus fans and seekers of laughs – look no further than this uproarious play. To the delight of fans everywhere, this popular British television comedy is now a stage show that revels in nonstop double entendres. When the motley crew of the Grace Brothers department store prepare for a sale of German goods and then depart for a staff holiday in Spain, they survive their stay in the tropics at a one star establishment and their encounters with everything from a Spanish crumpet to randy revolutionaries with everything intact but their modesty, $12, $10/students and seniors, Gaslight Theater at Hallowell City Hall, 1 Winthrop Street, Hallowell. FMI: 207-626-3698, www.gaslighttheater.org.
June 25, Friday, 7:30pm, “Cyrano,” Cyrano by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Jo Roets Directed by Tess Van Horn Cyrano de Bergerac is a master of swordplay and wordplay, but a “magnificent Mount Everest of a nose” blocks his path to true love. From Parisian balconies to bloody battlefields, tongue-tied Christian borrows Cyrano’s words to woo beautiful Roxane—but is she falling for Christian’s looks or Cyrano’s soul? A cast of three triangulates this classic into a lightning-paced romance of duels, panache, sacrifice, and one enormous schnoz, see site for ticketing details, Theater at Monmouth, Cumston Hall, 796 Main Street, Monmouth. FMI: 207-933-2952, www.theateratmonmouth.org.
June 26, Sunday, 3pm, “Snow Pond Symphony,” Snow Pond Center for the Arts introduces the Snow Pond Symphony. Come help Snow Pond and New England Music camp kick off their 80th summer, with a special concert at the Bowl-In-The-Pines. Snow Pond faculty member, Jo-Ann Sternberg, formerly clarinet with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, will solo with the Symphony, under the baton of music director and conductor Leon Gregorian, $20/adult, $10/student, Snow Pond Center for the Arts, 8 Goldenrod Lane, Sidney. FMI: 844-476-6976, snowpond.org.

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