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“Mary Poppins,” Crooker Theater, Brunswick

May 3-6, Thursday-Sunday, 7pm/Thurs, Fri, and Sat, 2pm/Sat. and Sun, “Mary Poppins,” Midcoast Youth Theater (MYT) is excited to present their upcoming production of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins, a musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film. The show is directed by Tammy Holmes and includes MYT’s largest ever cast of almost 120 members ranging in age from 4-70. Courtney Babbidge’s musical direction and KC Andreu’s choreography is perfect, but it shines brightest during the big musical numbers, of which there are many. The score is filled with timeless classics such as “Feed the Birds,” “Jolly Holiday,” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” “A Spoonful of Sugar,” and the Academy Award®-winning “Chim-Chim Cher-ee.” Linda Gardiner who plays Winifred Banks also served as the choreographer for the big tap number “Step in Time,” $12/advance, $10/seniors and students, $8/under 5, Brunswick High School, Crooker Theater, 116 Maquoit Road, Brunswick. FMI: 207-558-5827, www.midcoastyouththeater.org.
May 3, Thursday, 7pm, “Coffeehouse Concert: Married with Chitlins,” performs traditional American music, old-time country and blues, some jazz standards and Celtic reels and jigs, $10 at the door, Camden Public Library, 55 Main St., Camden. FMI: 207-236-3440, www.librarycamden.org.
May 3-5, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30pm, “Spring Dance Concert,” students from the Bowdoin College Department of Theater and Dance perform original works choreographed by faculty members Aretha Aoki, Gwyneth Jones, and Vanessa Anspaugh, Advance Tickets are free and can be reserved at Smith Union 207-725-3375, tickets available at the door, free, Pickard Theatre, Memorial Hall at Bowdoin College, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. FMI: 207-725-3663, www.bowdoin.edu.
May 3-4, Thursday-Friday, 7:30pm, “Music Under Stalin’s Shadow,” the Bowdoin Chorus and Mozart Mentors Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Antolini ’63 present “Music Under Stalin’s Shadow,” a retrospective of choral works written during Stalin’s dictatorship, some on his command, some with his permission and some secretly without his knowledge, composers include Alexander Alexandrov, Vissarion Shebalin and Nikolai Golovanov, the featured work is Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky Cantata (1938) with mezzo-soprano soloist Joelle Morris, Studinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College, 12 Campus Rd. South, Brunswick. FMI: 207-798-4141, www.bowdoin.edu.
May 5, Saturday, 8am-5pm, “Bath Mayfair and City-Wide Yard sales,” visit all along Main St. and visit yard sales offering a little bit of everything for everyone, free, Main St., Bath. FMI: 207-442-7291, www.visitbath.com.
May 5-6, Saturday-Sunday, 3pm, “Cinderella,” Elizabeth Drucker’s Ballet School presents the ballet “Cinderella”. The fully staged production features mice, magic spells, pumpkin fairies, and a talented cast of over 100 dancers. The ballet runs 75 minutes and will delight all ages, $12/adult, $10/children and seniors, Orion Performing Arts Center, 66 Republic Avenue, Topsham.  FMI:  207-729-6794. www.theballetschool.com.
May 5, Saturday, 7pm,”Greater Freeport Community Chorus’ Spring Concert: ‘As Time Goes By: Music from Films’,” the singers are led by Director Virgil Bozeman and accompanied by pianist Kellie Moody. India produces more films annually than any other country, so it’s fitting that among the concert’s featured pieces will be an arrangement of Indian composer A.R. Rahman’s “Jai Ho.” The Oscar-winning song accompanied a dance sequence performed during the ending credits of the 2008 movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” set and filmed in India but actually a British film. “Let the River Run” is another Academy Award winner, written by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon for the 1988 film “Working Girl.” The song, whose lyrics refer to “silver cities” and “morning lights,” accompanies the movie’s opening sequence, focused on New York City commuters. The arrangements of “Jai Ho” and “Let the River Run” both will feature percussion accompaniment. The wide-ranging concert will also include “Exsultate Justi,” from Director Steven Spielberg’s “Empire of the Sun”; “As Time Goes By,” from the classic 1940s film “Casablanca”; and an arrangement of “Into the West,” part of the soundtrack of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” Solo performances will include “Lara’s Theme,” from the 1965 movie “Doctor Zhivago.” Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Middle Street, Brunswick. FMI: 207-729-8515, www.gfccsings.org.

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