Dance, Summer Theatre

itia providing the cannonfire for the 1812 Overture, and fireworks following the concert (Sunday, July 5, 8 p.m.; $8/$6); an All Gershwin Pops concert at Fort Williams Park, Cape Elizabeth, with pianist Michael Braz perfonning "Rhapsody in Blue" (Friday, July 24, 8 p.m.; $8/$6); Festival by the Lake at CMVTI, Auburn, featuring the All Gershwin Pops concert (Saturday, July 25, 6:30 p.m.); concert at Sugarloaf USA, Carrabassell Valley (Sunday, August 2, 2 p.m.); and a concert at Fort Williams Park, Cape Elizabeth, with violinistStephanie Chase (Saturday, August 8, 8 p.m.; $8/$6). For more infonnation on the Symphony's summer schedule, call 773-8191.

DANCE

The Portland Ballet Co.: Alicia DiBiase and Frederick Bernier.

The Portland Ballet Repertory Company pr~sents the fult length classic farce Don Quixote. This production is after the full-lengthballet choreographed by Marius Petipa, produced in 19th century Russia. Based on a theme from Cervantes' popular 17th century novel, the ballet version is a tongue-in-cheekcommentary on human foibles in regard to love, romance and idealism. Additional choreography is created by Roxanne McHugh, Ballet Mistress for Portland Ballet, and Gail Csoboth, Associate Artistic Director, who also stage the production. Overall direction is set by Eugenia O'Brien, Artistic Director. May 15 to 17, Portland Perfonning Arts Center, 25A Forest Avenue, Portland. For a schedule of evening and matinee perfonnances, call the PPAC Box office at 774-0465. The Portland Dance Center offers a Free Kids' Afternoon on Saturday, May 2, at 1 p.m. in the Center's studios; and on Friday, May 15, at 8 p.m., the Center presents Live From Studio I, in Studio I at the Dance Center. 25A Forest Avenue, Portland. 773-2562.

SUMMER THEATER

The Portland Players present Evita, the spectacular Andrew Lloyd Webber{fim Rice retelling of the legend of Eva Peron. She was a bit actress, mistress and wife to Argentina's dictator, Juan Peron, and a saint-like figure in whom avarice and benevolence combined to form one of the most powerfulfolk heroines of modern times. The show is eaaentially an operetta, and the non-stop musical is renowned particularly for the elegiac "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina." Evita runs May 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 & 31, and June 5, 6, 7. 12 and 13. For tickets and more information, call Portland Players, 420 Cottage Road. South Portland.

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Portland Lyric Theater presents Meredith Wilson's classic, The Music Man. The show runs from May 1 to May 23. For a schedule and more information, call 799-1421. Beau Jest Moving Theatre is a company dedicated to creating a style of movement theatre that combines singing, acting, dance, mime and satire. Since their debut at the Mirage Theatre in 1984, they have rapidly become one of New England's most popular "new mime" troupes. Beau Jest performs at the Theater of Fantasy from Friday to Sunday, June 12 to 14, in a show that features a series of sketches that cover topics ranging from urban living to surviving adolescence. At 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings; 2 p.m. on Sunday. The Theater of Fantasy is located at 50 Danforth St. in Portland. $7/$5.775-5957. But Can They Sing?, an evening of mime and dance with Jackie Reifer and John Saccone (formerly of Celebration Theater Ensemble), and Sheila Bellefleurof the Casco Bay Movers. Friday and Saturday, June 26 and 27,8 p.m., ilt the Theater of Fantasy, 50 Danforth St., Portland. $7/$6. 775-5957.

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Summer Theater

Summer theater begins in earnest any day now, and this means that summer theater directors and producers are busily lining up their productions, performance rights and players whiledusting off gels and makeup trays even as we, in our leisure, take a quick look at what the summer's stages have to offer: Acadia Repertory Theater, Somesville,Mt. Desert Island (8 miles from Bar Harbor). Same Time, Next Year (July 3 to July 12); The Mousetrap (July 14 to July 26); Cyrano de Bergerac (July 28 to August 9); and The Comedies of Anton Chekhov (August 11 to August 23). Tuesday to Sunday at 8:40. 244- 7260. Bates Festival Theater, Bates College, Lewiston. The Theatre presents Serenading Louie and The Serpent's Egg and Cannibal Masque. For informationcall 786-6077. Brunswick Music Theater, Pickard Theater, Bowdoin College, Brunswick. Now in its 29th consecutive season as the only professional resident stock music theater remaining in the country, the Brunswick Music Theater presents The Sound of Music (June 16 to June 28); Camelot (June 30

to July 19); BOYIfrom Syracuse (July 21 to August 2); tentatively, One Touch of Venus (August 4 to August 16; and Nunlense (August 18 to August 30. Tuesday to Saturday at 8 p.m.; Wednesday, Friday and Sunday mati· nees at 2 p.m. $10 to $16. 725·8769. The Camden Shakespeare Company returns to the Camden Library Amphitheater this season with a lineup of traditional and not·so-traditional theater. For more information, call 236-6979. Hackmatack Play houle, on Route 9, Beaver Dam, Berwick, presents its sixteenth season. The season: The Best Little WhQrehoule in Texas (June 23to 28, and June 30 to July 5); ~ey (July 7 to II, and July 14 to 18); One Flew Over the Cuckoo'l Nest (August 4 to 8, and August 11 to 15); and Annie (August 18 to 23, August 25 to 30, and September 1 to 6).8 p.m.; the musicals also have an 8 p.m. Sunday performance. $6 to $10. 698·1807. Mad Horle Theatre Company, 122 Brackett Street, Por· tland. Through May 10: Vanishing Points, by Martin Jones. Mad Horse Theatre Company, Maine's only professionalresident theatre ensemble, present the worldpremiere productionofVanilhing Pointl by noted Maine playwright Martin Jones, Thursdays through Sundays, April 23 through May 10 at Theater of Fantasy, 50 Danforth Street, Portland. Curtain time is 8 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays; 7 p.m. on Sundays. Directed by Michael Rafkin, the play is loosely based on the true tragic story of an artist friendof Martin Jones. The play followsthe IS-month personal journey of a young woman whose mother, father, and sister were brutally murdered in a still·unsolved case. Author Jones resides in Bru~wick, Maine. He is currently the Playwright-in.Residence at Portland Stage Company through a RockefellerFoundation grant. In January of this year, his play Welt Memphis Mojo, an FDG/CBS New Play winner, enjoyed a critically and popularly successful West Coast premiere in Los Angeles. It is being published by Broadway Play Publishers. Stage Arts Theatre Company in New York produced Snow Leopardl in 1985 (published by Samuel French, Inc.) and premiered his tril· ogy Zoology in 1983. Old Soldiers was published in Best Short Stories c.f 1983. Other works have been produced at the Guthrie Theatre in Minnesota and Off·Off Broadway. For additional summer activities, call Karl Rogers at 773-1782.

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Russell Square Summer Theatre, Russell Hall on the UniversityofSouthern Maine's Gorham campus. Light Up the Sky (tentatively) (June 24 to July 11); Little Shop of Horrors (July 15 to August 1); Greater Tuna (July 5 to August 22). Monday to Saturday, 8 p.m.; $7 to $11. The Russell Square Players also present three shows in repertory in Portland: An Evening of Original One-Actl, An Evening of Kurt Vonnegutf, and Starting Here, Starting