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“Bee Parks and the Hornets,” Strand Theatre, Rockland

May 2-5, Thursday-Sunday, 7pm/Thurs.-Sat, 2pm/Sat. and Sun, “Matilda,” Midcoast Youth Theater (MYT) is proud to announce their spring show and Maine’s premiere of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical. Based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book of the same name, Matilda, played by Scout Martin and Elinor Riley, is a bright little girl born to dimwitted parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, played by Chad Jacobson and Melissa Allen, who discard and belittle her especially for her love of books. At school, she takes on Miss Trunchbull, the wicked headmistress played by Michael Blakemore, in order to take a stand and change her destiny. She makes school friends and finds a caring protector in her teacher Miss Honey, played by Annie Dumont. Matilda’s bravery teaches Miss Honey and her classmates an important lesson that even though life can be hard sometimes you need to revolt and that, “nobody but me is gonna change my story” so “sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty,” free, Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School, 116 Maquoit Road, Brunswick. FMI: 207-558-5827, www.midcoastyouththeater.org.
May 3, Friday, 6:30pm, “Bee Parks & The Hornets,” An indie pop-rock band for all insects and ages, Bee Parks and the Hornets perform high-energy concert parties that combine rockin’ music, puppetry and audience participation to inspire young people to get up and move — both with their feet and in their communities. With all-original songs that promote kindness, equality, self-confidence, social justice, environmental awareness and dancing your heart out, Bee Parks and the Hornets take audience members of all ages on a musical adventure that will open up spirits and imaginations, $5-$10, Strand Theatre, 345 Main Street, Rockland. FMI: 207-594-0070, www.rocklandstrand.com.
May 3-5, Friday-Sunday, 7pm, “A Piece of My Heart,” Freeport High School’s spring play, A Piece of My Heart by Shirley Lauro, is a dramatic piece that tracks the lives of six women during and after the Vietnam War. A musician, a Navy Nurse, an Army Intelligence Officer, two Army Nurses, and a member of the Red Cross show what it was like to be in the middle of the action and what it was like after they came home. Trigger warning: depicts acts of war, mature language and situations. Not recommended for children under 13, $10/adults, $5/students, Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook, Freeport. FMI: 207-865-4706, www.rsu5.org.
May 4, Saturday, 2pm and 5pm, “Oratorio Chorale-What Binds Us Together: The Binding of Issac Story in Music,” music by Britten, Carissimi, Howard Frazin and Aharon Harlap. With soloists Malinda Haslett, Lucas Coura, Josh Collier and Keith Phares, pianist Christopher Staknys and cellist Ben Noyes, $20/advance, $25/door, students half price, free/under 12, Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Middle Street, Brunswick. FMI: 207-577-3931, oratoriochorale.org.
May 4, Saturday, 7pm, “Greater Freeport Community Chorus -Missa Kenya and Songs Inspired by Africa,” the centerpiece of the concert will be the five-movement “Missa Kenya,” a setting of Mass texts. American composer Paul Basler wrote the piece after he spent a sabbatical year at a Nairobi, Kenya, university. He writes in the forward to the composition that it fuses Kenyan musical styles with 20th century American classical styles. He describes it as his “gift to the warm, loving friends I left behind in Nairobi.” Among other pieces to be performed are “Famine Song,” which expresses the emotions of Africans who experienced the famine of the 1980s, and “Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain,” by Joseph Shabalala, founder of the South African choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Three guest musicians will be joining the chorus for the spring concert: Annegret Baier and Shirsten Lundblad, percussion, and Caitlin Ramsey, French horn. The group is directed by Virgil Bozeman IV and accompanied by pianist Kellie Moody, $10, free/under 18, United Methodist Church, 320 Church Road, Brunswick. FMI: 207-666-8817, www.gfccsings.org.
May 5, Sunday, 2pm, “DaPonte String Quartet-Beethoven or Bust,” Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat Major Op. 127 Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor Op. 18 Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor Op. 95, $20.78, Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Middle Street, Brunswick. FMI: www.daponte.org.
May 5, Sunday, 2pm, “Quasimodal Chorus Spring Concert,” singers come from all over the midcoast, from Winterport to Waldoboro. The Quasimodal Chorus will be joined in the performance by The Mill Street Irregulars. The music will include old favorites and a number of new pieces, several of which have not been heard in performance ever before, free, Camden Public Library, 55 Main Street, Camden. FMI: 207-236-3440, www.librarycamden.org.

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