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Happy anniversary to everyone associated with Marsh River Theater, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
“A new front entrance, hallway and ticket counter has kept the Friends of Marsh River Theater busy this spring,” reports founder George Wildey.
The opening performances for the 2006 season, featuring the Marsh River Singers, are 8 p.m. today and Saturday, June 24, at the theater on Route 139 in Brooks.
“Back to Broadway” will offer “memories with a Broadway flavor” from some of the “great stage hits,” Wildey wrote.
The theater is located in the former Union Hall, built in 1904 by citizens of Brooks and members of local fraternal organizations.
For years, Union Hall was a center for community activities ranging from town meetings to performances, movies, basketball, roller-skating, bowling and dances.
The building was purchased by New England School of Communications in 1995 and donated to Friends of Marsh River Theater in December 1998.
And there is even more reason to celebrate this season.
“Because of the tremendous response,” Wildey wrote, “we have added a third day of performances for the summer theater camps,” which have been playing to sold-out audiences.
He also wants you to know that two “extremely popular” performers, Paul Sullivan and Erica Brown, will be returning, and that audiences will have the opportunity to hear Evergreen, “who has a statewide following.”
The following performances all begin at 8 p.m.: Evergreen, Saturday, July 1; Lorna Prescott & Company, Saturday, July 8; David Dodson Trio, Saturday, July 15; Paul Sullivan & Friends, Saturday, July 22.
Performances of the Senior Camp Musical are 7 p.m., Thursday, July 27, and Friday, July 28, with a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday, July 29. The evening performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 29, features The Maine Women’s Balkan Choir.
Jockular Juggler & Comic Chris Quimby will appear at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5.
The Junior Camp Musical is 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 10, and Friday, Aug. 11, with a matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, followed by a variety show at 8 that evening.
The following performances begin at 8 p.m.: Blue Hill Brass, Saturday, Aug. 19; Bruce Nye, the Elvis Guy, Saturday, Aug. 26; Erica Brown & the Bluegrass Connection, Saturday, Sept. 2; and the Community Players in “Never Too Late,” Friday, Sept. 8, and Saturday, Sept. 9.
Tickets for the first two performances, which are fundraisers, are $12.
Regular individual tickets are $7 and $10, or $60 and $80 for the season.
For reservations call 722-4110.
Doors open at 4 p.m. and games begin at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at the Community Building on Indian Island for the Penobscot Nation’s Senior Citizen Club Gift/Food Basket Bingo.
Admission is $15 and $5 for specials; refreshments will be available.
Club President Eileen McGillicuddy of Levant reports proceeds from the event will “raise funds for the Seniors’ Activity program.”
Flash in the Pans, the community steel band from Blue Hill, organized and directed by Carl Chase, appears in concert from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 26, on the grounds of the historic Fort Point Lighthouse in Stockton Springs.
Fort Point Lighthouse is located at the tip of Cape Jellison at Fort Point State Park. This concert is being hosted by the Bureau of Parks and Lands.
The band members volunteer their time to perform benefit concerts on Monday nights throughout the summer in our area.
At this concert, the Stockton Springs Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will be selling refreshments to raise funds for uniforms and camp.
For more information about the concert, call Jeri Cole at 567-3356.
For more information about Flash in the Pans, visit http://peninsulapan.org.
Members of John Bapst High School Class of 1956 will hold their 50th reunion beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at the school, now known as John Bapst Memorial High School on Broadway in Bangor.
A tour of the building and dinner follow.
Sunday’s events include a Class Mass and breakfast. For information, call Ann Keenan Albert, 848-9948.
Richard Newcomb of Hampden wrote to report that the organization, The Friends of Hamlin Inc., “is trying to reach its goal to erect a flagpole” at Lakeview Cemetery in West Hampden.
He said anyone interested in making a donation to this cause can do so by writing Friends of Hamlin, 205 Western Ave., Hampden 04444.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.
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