Y-Players return with ‘Hollywood’ production

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Many people have been awaiting the dates and times for the Y-Players’ next production, “Hooray for Hollywood,” at the Bangor Y on Second Street and here it is

The shows are 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 13; 7 p.m. Friday, May 16; 2 p.m. Sunday, May 18; 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 27; 7 p.m. Friday, May 30 and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 1. Admission is by donation. Proceeds will benefit Bangor Y programs.

Now in her 20th year as Y-Players director, Pam Martin wrote that “my girls are getting a little older and a 2-hour show kinda wears them out,” so she has “decided to do something different,” this year by “making a movie.”

As you enjoy popcorn and music from Academy Award-winning movies, you will watch “Hooray for Hollywood” on a 61-inch television screen.

The show will feature “Beauty School Dropout,” “King Kong,” “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee,” “Cellblock Tango,” “Wicked Witch of the West,” “Little Orphan Annie,” and 95-year-old Anna Wareing as Scarlett O’Hara in “Went with the Wind.”

Programs will contain ballots and Best Costume, Best Actor and Best Movie will be voted on.

At intermission, Martin wrote, “the ballots will be tallied, and we will go to the Academy Awards.”

The “stars” will leave a cardboard limousine and walk down a red carpet, surrounded by paparazzi and interviewers.

From the photographs Pam e-mailed me, I promise you another dynamite show, one that will have you cheering on your favorites, clapping your hands and laughing until your sides hurt.

For information about this event, call the Bangor Y at 941-2808.

Marlene Doucette wrote the Orono Historical Society’s annual Tasting Bee is 5-7 p.m. Monday, May 12, in the gymnasium of Asa Adams School in Orono.

Doucette invites you to enjoy sampling food from up to eight local restaurants. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 6-12, free for children under 5.

Tickets are available at Judy’s Scrappin’ and Stampin’, The Pretty Woman and Ampersand-The Store in Orono by calling Doucette at 866-2597 or at the door.

Doucette said proceeds would benefit “the restoration of the Civil War Monument in Webster Park in Orono.”

Paula Baines reminds you that organizers of St. James Episcopal Church Baby Shower for Crossroads Ministries hope you will drop off donations of baby items between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Sunday, May 11, at St. James Church, on the corner of Center and Main streets in Old Town.

Your contributions, from diapers to baby socks, will enable Crossroads Ministries of Old Town to help needy families in the area.

The last meeting of the academic year for Women of the World, a French Picnic, is noon Monday, May 12, in the MacKenzie Room at the Church of Universal Fellowship on Main Street in Orono, reports University of Maine WOW coordinator Mireille Le Gal.

Lunch for international and American women and their children age 10 and older is $4, $2 for children ages 6-10, free for children under age 6.

For information about the organization or the luncheon, call Le Gal at 581-3423.

A benefit concert for Lewis Wirta is planned 12:30-3:30 p.m. Monday, May 12, at Visions Gallery, 66 Main St., Houlton.

Melissa Fuller e-mailed that all donations for the concert featuring Kindred Harps will help raise funds to assist Wirta “who is ill with cancer.”

Fuller urges you to “please join us for beautiful music and refreshments,” and reminds you that everyone is welcome.

For information, call 532-9119.

Although advance registration is required, the public is invited to the Women’s Addiction Services Council 28th annual Silver Tea Celebrating Women in Recovery, 2-3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15, at the Blaine House in Augusta.

For information or to register, call Susan Nichols at 941-1612, ext. 203, or e-mail snichols@

wellspringsa.org.

This free event, open to anyone, also features the presentation of the Women in Recovery Leadership Award.

Tea, punch, desserts and informal tours of the public spaces of the Governor’s mansion will be offered, and musical entertainment will be provided by Ronni Katz and Kathleen McGee.

According to the release, WASC “was founded to enhance service coordination for women adversely affected by alcohol and drug use.”

For information about this program, contact Nichols at the above number or e-mail address.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.