November 07, 2024
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‘Annie Get Your Gun’ auditions set in Bangor

Warm up your vocal chords and get those feet a-movin’ to be prepared for Bangor Community Theatre auditions for “Annie Get Your Gun.”

Stephanie Erb, the group’s vice president, announced auditions for this Broadway favorite will be held 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29, and Thursday, Aug. 30, at Columbia Street Baptist Church, 63 Columbia St., Bangor.

“Both adult and children’s roles will be available,” she wrote.

“Auditioners are asked to come prepared with one song and sheet music,” she wrote.

“Some [auditioners] may be asked to script read and-or dance.”

Rehearsals begin Wednesday, Sept. 5, in Bangor. The production will run Oct. 12-14 at Peakes Auditorium in Bangor.

More information is available by calling Erb at 884-8114 or Nancy Dymond at 942-3148.

Mark Neslusan reports that lyric baritone Alan Bailey will appear in a benefit concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19, at Bucksport Middle School auditorium.

Proceeds from the suggested donation of $5 will benefit the Kawaii grand piano fund.

The piano, Neslusan said, was acquired by the Bucksport Area Cultural Arts Society for the auditorium, and the society is working to raise $10,000 to help cover that expense.

Deborah Colageo of Bangor will accompany Bailey on the piano as he presents a concert of classical selections and jazz standards. Several guest singers will join him after intermission to perform duets from well-known Broadway shows.

Violist Margret Hjaltested entertains for the SummerKeys’ Mary Potterton memorial concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22, at Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

The concert is free, but donations are appreciated. For information about the Eastport-Lubec concert boat, call 853-2500.

From Rod Rodrigues comes word that Eastern Maine Camera Club & By Design Gallery are presenting a photographic art show, contest and sale, Art for Acadia 2, to benefit Friends of Acadia National Park.

Club president Don Darling reports many members will be submitting one or two works along with donations of $25 for a single entry and $40 for two.

The photographs will be juried Monday, Aug. 20, and the top three pictures displayed through September.

The public is invited to the Art for Acadia 2 gala opening 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, at By Design Gallery, 20 Harlow St., Bangor.

The event will feature free refreshments and the opportunity to vote for the People’s Choice award from entries excluding the top three award-winners.

Russ Van Arsdale reports a few openings remain for Northeast CONTACT’s third annual benefit golf tournament.

The 18-hole scramble begins with an 8 a.m. shotgun start Friday, Aug. 24, at Hermon Meadow Golf Club.

The cost is $300 per foursome or $250 for a family foursome “made up of four members of one family or two pairs of different families,” Van Arsdale said.

Proceeds from the tournament benefit Northeast CONTACT, “Maine’s oldest, grassroots consumer assistance and education organization, which has been promoting better consumer-business relations since 1972,” Van Arsdale wrote.

Checks and player information may be sent to Northeast CONTACT, 109 State St., Bangor 04401, and more information may be obtained by calling Van Arsdale at 989-4945 or Northeast CONTACT executive director Gerry Palmer at 944-8000.

Jewish Community Council of Bangor executive committee members Norman Minsky, Barbara Podolsky and Howard Segal wrote “on behalf of the Bangor Jewish Community and the families of those injured” in a van accident Aug. 6 on Interstate 95 near Argyle “to express our sincere thanks to all who helped.”

“From the passer-by who called 911 to the first responders, the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department, the Maine State Police and all the rescue teams involved, our deepest gratitude,” they wrote.

“Your efforts to transport and comfort the youngsters makes you all heroes.”

The committee expressed its “profound thanks” to Dr. Jonathan Busko and Karen Clements of Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor for their “professionalism in handling such a crisis situation with extraordinary caring and kindness.”

They also thank “the entire EMMC staff … for their sensitivity to the needs of the injured, given the unique circumstance of aiding Orthodox Jewish young men whose families were far away.”

All their needs were met, from kosher food to telephones, to ensure “that not only their medical, but their spiritual, requirements were met.”

The committee believes this area is fortunate “to have a facility like EMMC whose entire staff exhibited such compassionate care.”

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


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