WHAT’S HAPPENING
JAN & FEB Andrew Lloyd Webber’s one-woman show will be performed by Brianne Beck at the Bangor Opera House. This tells the story of a girl from Muswell Hill, England, who travels to the United States looking for love. Where will her search lead? Visit PenobscotTheatre.org to learn more or to purchase tickets.
JAN. 8 COMEDY NITE
Get your laugh on at Bangor Arts Exchange Jan. 8 at 8 p.m. Comedy Nite will feature comics Ian Stuart, Henry Caitlin, Audrey Farber, Casey Watson and Alex Temple. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advance or $22 on the day of show. Visit the events tab at www.facebook.com/BangorArtsExchange for more information.
JAN. 10 THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY WITH ERICA NADELHAFT
Bangor Public Library will host a lecture by Erica Nadelhaft, the education coordinator at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine. Using letters as a starting point, the lecture will follow three branches of the Muehsam family as they struggled to escape Germany in the late 1930s and emigrate to the United States. Despite their wealth and connections, bureaucracy worked against them along the way leading to closed doors, imprisonments, escapes and deaths. For more information, visit facebook.com/YourBangorPublicLibrary.
JAN. 30 MOZART AND SAINT-GEORGES
The Bangor Symphony Orchestra will present Masterworks III on Jan. 30 at 3 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts. The performance is called Revolutionaries: Mozart/Saint-Georges, both 18th century composers who created revolutionary works that still delight listeners today. The performance will be conducted by Lucas Richman with special guest Wren Saunders on bassoon. In addition to the live performance, there will be digital access to a recording of it available for a fee from Feb. 1-15. Visit BangorSymphony.org for more information or to purchase tickets/access.
FEB. 10-27 MAYTAG VIRGIN
The Penobscot Theatre Company stages this Maine premiere of a southern love story just in time for Valentine’s Day. Maytag Virgin is a character-driven play about neighbors, unexpected journeys and healing. Visit PenobscotTheatre.org for more information or to purchase tickets.
FEB. 11-13 NATIONAL TOBOGGAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Head to Camden Snow Bowl for the rip roaring good time that is the U.S. National Toboggan Championships, which is back this year after a 2021 hiatus. Participants gather in two to four person teams for cool, fast runs on wooden toboggans down the chute. The best teams go to the finals for the chance to be the top tobogganing team in the U.S. Bring your costumes, your warm clothes and your sense of fun for this day on the ice. For more information or to register your team: camdensnowbowl.com/ toboggan-championships.
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Answers to this month’s Pop Quiz: Question 1: B; Q2: A; Q3: B; Q4: A; Q5: C. 8 / BANGOR METRO January/February 2022
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JAN. 6-23 TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
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