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Summerguide: On The Town

Sail Races

Casco Bay Sailing· Associotion Raclng Calendar, 1988:

Date Race Phone #

Early Bird Tune-Up Centerboard Pilot Race Harraseeket Boon Island J-24 States Downeast Fun Race Camden/Castine Boothbay Race Week Monhegan/Manana M.S. Regetta Interclubs 1st Fall series 2nd Fall series 3rd Fall series 4th Fall series 5th Fall series n/a 781-2284 767-2115 781-9820 846-5613 846-5613 799-1310 846-5613 781-2284 n/a n/a 781-9820 781-9820 761-5815 443-2780 781-9820 799-1310 781-9820 781-9820 781-9820

Windjammers

Anybody who has visited the coast of Maine has seen the lovely windjammers with white sails billowing like aprons in the wind. If you would like a closer view. go to Boothbay Harbor during Windjammer Days. July 12 to 14. You can sail on the following windjammer cruises out of Camden Harbor: The Adventure. The Angellque. Capture the romance of times gone by with Grange natural wicker.

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Music

Bangor Band Concerts. Paul Bunyan Park.June 21. June 28. July 5. July 12. July 19. July 26. August 2. August 9. at 7 p.rn. 947-3542.

Bowdoin College Artists' Series. First Parish Church. Brunswick. Thisgraceful old church wilt be open to a seriesof sixconcerts at 8 p.m. One of the world's great chamber ensembles. the Vermeer Quartet. and Bowdoln's resident group for over twenty years. the Aeolian Chamber Players.open the 24th season (June 30). Next. Irs New York concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and Naumbergwinner Charles Neldich. presenting clarinet music from Mozart. Bruch. and Brahms (July 7). Third is New York Chamber Symphony concertmistress Syoko Aki and the Brunswick Oratorio Chorale. with music of Bach and SChumann (July 14). followed by George Crumb's 'Voice of the Whale." written for the Aeolian Chamber Players, intemationally acclaimed pianist Edward Auer. and The Cassatt String Quartet (July 22). Continuing with the seoson is the ever-popular ~in Trio.with guests Maria Bachmann. violin. and Paul Doktor. performing Dvorak's A-major piano quintet. with flutist Unda Chesis (July 29). And finally. Bowdoin CoI••

lege graduate and renowned baritone Kurt Ollmann and the Aeolian Chamber Players close the season with Beethoven's "Archduke" trio (August 5). 725-3<XXl.

Devonsquare, Kennebunk Town Hall. will perform their English and Irish folk songs at 7:30 p.m. Advanced ticke~s may be bought by calling 9854343 or paying sa'at the door.

Anne Dodson. Olin Arts Center. Bates College. Lewiston. A folksinger. Dodson will use different intruments to accompany her lovely singing. $4/$2. 786-6135.

Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin College. Featuring music of composers In residence Robert Rodriguez. Alvin Brehm. Elliott SChwartz, Glen Cortese, and George Crumb's monumental "Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death" (July 20,21,23) at 8 p.m. 725-3<XXl.

opera favorites at 7:30 p.m. $7.f:IJ/S4.236-2823.

People's Community Concert Band will play at Millcreek Park In South Portland at 7 p.m. for free. 883-6166.

Portland Symphony Orc •••••••• presents a seriesof three summer concerts in FortWilliams Park, Cape Elizabeth at 7:30 p.rn.: Independence Pops concert. fireworks likely (July 2); Baroque chamber music concert with fireworks (..lily 15); and Tum-OfThe-Century pops concert (July 21). The gates will open at 6 p.m ..and there will be pre-concert musical entertainment. $8/$6. Call 773-8191.

" Rockport Folk F•• tlval, Rockport Opera House. Rockport. The folk artists wllI19tum to Rockport this summer with performances on Friday night by John and Helen Gowier. Bill Preper. Steve Sellors. and Different Shoes. Saturday evening. Michael Cooney. Cindy Kallet. and the Ben Guilmette Group will play. There will be a workshop on Saturcay attemoon from 12 to 4. TICkets~ the evening c;oncerts can be bought In advance at the Owl and Turtle Book Store in Camden or the Reading Comer in Rockland.

Slx.h Annual Grea'er Portl •• d Rock-Off. at the Reiche School, Portland will taxi for takeoff at at 1 p.m. $3/$5.874-9002.

SChooner Fare. Gould Academy. These popular singers of Irish folk music will perform at 7 p.m. 824-3306.

Theater

Aced~a Repertory Theater. Somesville. Mt. Desert Island (8 miles from Bar Harbor) Tuesday to Sunday at 8:40.Call 244-72&J for information.

The Camden Shakespeare Company occupies a beautiful outdoor amphitheater behind the library in Camden. For more information. call 236-8011.

The Portland Players presents Chicago. a razzle dazzl~ musical by Bob Fosseand Fred Ebb. May 2O-June 12. 799-7337.

aa'" F•• tlvel Theater. Bates College. Lewiston. The theater will climax its season with Orgasmo Adulto Escapes From the Zoo on May 12-21 atthe Gannett Theater. For ticket information call 786-6161.

Maine S'a'e Music Thea'er (formerly Brunswick Music Theater) Pickard Theater. Bowdoin College. Brunswick. Now celebrating its 30th anniversary as the only professional resident stock music theater remaining in the country. the Maine State Music Theater presents Sugar Babies (June 14-26); Li'l Abner (June 28-July10); 42nd Street (July 12-July 31); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (August 2-

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Mad Horse Theatre Company, 122 Brackett Street, Portland. Dubbed Maine's Best New Theater by a Portland Monthly poll, this little band of actors working in repertory has received a large share of critical acclaim. Beginning May 19 and running through June 12 is You Can't Get There From Here, also known as "Uncle Wally'S Traveling Diorama of Maine Wonders," a musical comedy revue on the interaction between the tourists and the Down Easters, will feature Randy Judkins as well as the Theatre's repertory cast. Written for this company by up-and-coming playwright Martin Jones, this play is a collaborative effort with the cast, The company is tentatively planning a summer of music and comedy at a location in the Greater Portland area. 775-5657.

Hackmatack Playhouse, on Route 9, Beaver Dam,

Berwick. the only playhouse in Maine that used to be a cattle barn, presents its summer season: Kiss

Me Kate (June 28-July 10); The Foreigner (July 12-July 23); Little Shop of Horrors (July26-August 7); Ten Little Indians (August 9-August 20); The

King and I (August 23-September 4).8 p.m. The • musicals also have an 8 p.m. Sunday performance, $6 to $10. 698-1807.

Hackmatack at Cocheco Falls, Franklin Place, Dover, New Hampshire will be showing The Fantastics from May 13 to 22 at 8 p.m. 603-749-3996.

Portsmouth Academy af "'Performing Arts, 855 Islington Street, Portsmoliftl, New Hampshire will be performing Ah, Wilderness from May 29 to 29. Call 603-443-44 72.

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Runell Square Summer Theater, Russell Hall on the University of Southern Maine's Gorham campus. Homesteaders (June 23foJuly 3); Pump Boys and Dinettes (July 7 to July 17); Squire Haggard's Journal (July 21 to 31), All plays run from Tuesday through Sunday at 8 p.rn. with a 2 p.m. performance on Sunday. $7 through $11. Call 780-5483.

Sanford Maine Stage Company, Little Theatre at Nassen College, Springvale. The company offers four productions during the summer. The shows are: The Odd Couple (June 21 to July 2); Carousel (July 6 to July 23); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (July 27 to August 13); and The Glass Managerie (August 17 to August 27). Performances will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday through SatUlday with no performances on Sunday afternoons, Call 636-2222,

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Verona (July 9), Richard II (july 22), Jane Eyre (August 5), and fwo children's shows; The Thirteen Clocks (July 13), and Rapunzel (August 16). The plQYSrun all summer In repertory at different dates. Dates given here are only opening dates. TIcket prices $4-$12.Call 933-2952.

The Theatre of the Enchanted Fores" Pavilion Theatre, University of Maine, Orono, presents The Dance of the Ocean Going Away (May 15); Hiawatha (June 17 to June 26); and The Young Company In Really Rosie (July 8 to July 10). $3.50/$5. 581-1755.

. . Ogunquit Playhouse, U.S. Route 1, Ogunquit. Maine. Theatre schedule to be announced. Rrstrate summer theatre for decades in a venerated site with lovely landscaping. For updates on tonighfs performance, call 646-5511.

Of Ants end Women,Portland Performing Arts Center, 25 A Forest Avenue, will feature three musicplQYSby DeJax Productions. May 20 to June 5. 761-{)591.

The Theater Project. •... sChool Street. Brunswick. This -'..•. season they will show: The Nerd by Larry Shue (June 23 to July 10) and Abelard and Heloise by Ronald Millar (August 11 to August 21). Also they will present in repertory: Baby with The Bathwater by Christopher Durang and Waiting for Godot by samuel Beckett from July 14 to August 7. Check with the theater for exact dates. TIcketsare $6to $8 or you may buy passes. Call 729-8584.

The Theater of Fantasy,Danfourth Street. Portland. Ann Witten, performance poet, and Alison Pou, performance artist, Saturday, June 18 at 7 p.rn. and 9 p.m., $8;Michael Lane TratJlman, storyteller and clown, July 14 to 16; and Judy Sloan, one woman show, August 19 to 21. Call 775-5957. Dance

American Ballet East will be in residency at the Ul')iversityof New England in Biddeford during the summer. They will present open rehearsals free to the public on Wednesday nights from 7 to 8:30 p.rn. Formore information, call 283-0171.

1988Bates Dance Festival. now in its sixth year at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, presents a dozen public events by outstanding national dance artists, most of them free of charge: a forum, "Introducing Babe Miller & Company," Olin Arts Center; a forum, "Introducing the Faculty," Olin ArtsCenter at 7:30;a lecture-demonstration, 'West African Dance," Alumni Gymanasium at 7:30; a performance, "Babe Miller & Company in Concert," SChaeffer Theater, $12/S7,July 1andJuly2;a workshop, "Contact Improvisation," July 5 at 7:30; a concert, "Plano Recital by Greg Presley," Olin ArtsCenter, July 6 at 7:30;a lecture demonstration, Continued on page 27

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