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Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Bangor Opera House

131 Main Street
Bangor, Maine 04401
Phone: (207) 942-3333

Apr 14 thru May 02, 2010. "In the whole long, sorry history of rock musicals, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the first one that truly rocks." -- Rolling Stone. "The most exciting rock score written for the theater since, oh, ever!' = Time Magazine. "Sublimely Trashy and Surprisingly Powerful." - LA Times. This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock 'n roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation. Who's never had a rock 'n roll fantasy?   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

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Guys and Dolls - Lyric Music Theater

176 Sawyer Street
South Portland, Maine 04106
Phone: (207) 799-1421

Apr 23 thru May 01, 2010. Take a step back in time with the uplifting classic, Guys and Dolls. This Tony-award winning story of gambling, gamesmanship and unrequited love, features music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Guys and Dolls features such well-known songs as "Adelaide's Lament," "Luck Be a Lady" and "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat." Directed by Maine theatre icons Vince and Denise Knue, Guys and Dolls will have you tapping your feet all the way home.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

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Armida - Gioachino Rossini - Collins Center for the Arts

University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469
Phone: (207) 581-1755

May 01, 2010. This mythical story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorak. Renee Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini's version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as "a buried treasure, a box of jewels." The fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, "has an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element." Performance at 1 p.m.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

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Bach at Leipzig - Portland Stage

25A Forest Avenue
Portland, Maine 04101
Phone: (207) 774-0465

May 04 thru May 23, 2010. When the coveted position of organ master at Leipzig Cathedral is advertised, the greatest musicians of 18th century Germany scurry to audition. Waiting for their turns to play, seven discordant characters collide in a hilarious fugue of wit and wordplay, as they deliciously scheme, bribe, and double-cross to win the post that will make one musician a legend. The Portland Stage Experience is intimate, exhilarating, and completely original, handicapped accessible, and we provide listening aids. For info and tickets phone (207) 774-0465.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet - Merrill Auditorium

20 Myrtle Street
Portland, Maine 04101
Phone: (207) 842-0800

May 05, 2010. The grace and elegance of classical ballet coupled with an eclectic repertoire full of sharp new works makes Aspen Santa Fe Ballet one of the most exciting contemporary ballet companies in the world. Sensual and stylish, exuberant and edgy, Aspen Santa Fe has captivated the dance world and charmed audiences with its sophisticated European flair, performing inventive works by today's foremost choreographers that showcase the company's "musicality, athleticism, and technique-conscious delivery" (New York Times). The program will include an imaginative reconstruction of Twyla Tharp's masterful 1975 ballet, Sue's Leg, set to the music of Fats Waller, and more.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

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Southern Comforts - The Public Theatre

31 Maple Street
Lewiston, Maine 04240
Phone: (207) 782-3200

May 07 thru May 16, 2010. This delightful Off-Broadway comedy follows the awkward and enchanting romance between a taciturn Yankee widower and a spunky southern grandmother. Each set in their own ways, with separate families, habits, political opinions and households of furniture, these stubborn old dogs must learn a few new tricks about the importance of compromise and the rewards of change.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

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45 Seconds from Broadway - Waterville Opera House

Studio Theater 93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

May 07 thru May 16, 2010. Forty-five seconds is the amount of time it takes to walk to Broadway from this Neil Simon play's setting, a coffee shop off the lobby of midtown-Manhattan's tourist-class Edison Hotel. Comedian Mickey Fox holds center stage, along with the dining spot's proprietor and his wife, an upscale society dame and her nearly mute husband, a British impresario, a Broadway ingenue, and a South African playwright. One-liners fly through the comic first act; the play takes on a more serious note in Act II, when Mickey's older brother pleads with him to help his son become the comedian he desperately wants to be.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

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The Odd Couple - City Theater

205 Main Street
Biddeford, Maine 04005
Phone: (207) 282-0849

May 07 thru May 16, 2010. Biddeford City Theater presents Neil Simon's The Odd Couple.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

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West Side Story - Portland Players

420 Cottage Road
South Portland, Maine 04106
Phone: (207) 799-7337

May 14 thru May 30, 2010. Portland Players presents West Side Story.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

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The Underpants - Bangor Opera House

131 Main Street
Bangor, Maine 04401
Phone: (207) 942-3333

May 16 thru Jun 13, 2010. Steve Martin - the renowned comic actor and author of Picasso at the Lapin Agile provides a wild satire adapted from the classic German farce about Louise and Theo Markes, a couple whose conservative existence is shattered when Louise's bloomers fall down in public. Though she pulls them up quickly, he thinks the incident will cost him his job as a government clerk.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

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