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Take a chance on PTC - ‘Mamma Mia!’
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BANGOR – There’s a whole lot of fun in the sun happening at the Bangor Opera House these days, a wealth of dreams and dancing queens.
Penobscot Theatre Company’s latest production – the final one of their 46th season – is the musical “Mamma Mia!” It’s a jukebox musical built on the tremendous catalog of 1970s Swedish pop supergroup ABBA, with book by Catherine Johnson. This production – directed and choreographed by Amiee Turner, with music direction by Phil Burns – runs through July 14 at the Bangor Opera House.
It’s the story of a young woman on the verge of getting married who is hoping to get a better sense of who she herself is by learning more about her history – specifically, who her father is, something her free-spirited and hard-working mother never told her. It’s about how powerful love can be … and what it means to allow yourself to feel it, no matter how much time may have passed.
It’s a lovely (albeit a tough thin) story, but the real highlights are the singing and the dancing – and as far as those are concerned, PTC’s production is pure dynamite. It is one of the biggest, brightest shows to grace this stage in some time, shiny and sweet and downright spectacular.
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Maine Literary Awards announced
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BANGOR – One of the higher honors in Maine letters has announced its 2019 crop of recipients.
The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance (MWPA) named the winners for the 2019 Maine Literary Awards at a ceremony held at the Bangor Public Library on June 13. The awards honor books published during 2018, as well as adult and youth manuscripts in drama, fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
The Maine Literary Awards are an annual competition coordinated by the MWPA. Nominations are open to all Maine residents (this includes seasonal and other part-time residents); the competition is for published books, as well as dramas, student writing and other short works (published or unpublished). In addition to being nominated by others, Maine writers can self-nominate.
This year, nearly 140 books were entered across the awards categories. In addition, more than 60 manuscripts were submitted into the Short Works and Drama Award competitions, while nearly 70 Maine students submitted work in the same categories in the award’s Youth Competition.
For more information about the Maine Literary Awards or the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, visit the MWPA website at www.mainewriters.org.
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The Wheelmobile is coming to Orono
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ORONO – One of America’s favorite game shows will be looking for contestants in Orono this weekend.
The Wheelmobile, the promotional vehicle for the game show “Wheel of Fortune,” will be in Eastern Maine searching for contestants to play on America’s Game. The Eastern Maine open auditions will only take place on Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22 at 5 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts on the campus of the University of Maine.
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Hobby horse fans show off their skills in Finland
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HELSINKI — The 400 contestants at a sports arena in Finland show jumped, barrel raced and pranced in a dressage competition. They just didn’t do it with live horses.
What organizers called “the biggest hobby horse event in the world” took place Saturday in Finland’s western town of Seinajoki, which hosted the annual national championships for the sport that simulates the gymnastic elements of real-life horseback riding.
Teens and young girls, mostly 10-to-18-years-old galloped, jumped and pranced with their homemade stuffed horse heads on a wooden stick in the physically demanding competition as over 2,500 spectators watched, Elviira Sarakoski of the Finnish Hobby Horse Association told The Associated Press.
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(No) Baby on board - ‘Childfree by Choice’
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There are plenty of people out there in the world who will tell you just how wonderful it is to be a parent. For these folks, there is nothing quite so rewarding as becoming a mother or father. That notion of the importance of having and raising children has been part of our society for so long as to have become engrained in the communal discourse.
But what about those who choose not to be parents? Those who choose to be childfree?
Dr. Amy Blackstone is a professor of sociology at the University of Maine; her new book is “Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family & Creating a New Age of Independence” (Dutton, $26). In it, Blackstone condenses a career’s worth of studies focused on childlessness and the childfree choice into a treatise on the concept of what it means to be childfree.
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