From the Chamber: Thriving during staycation in Brunswick area
Maine State Music Theatre is back and more
By Cory KingFrom the Chamber
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As we alluded to last week, August is vacation month for many business leaders, teachers and area employees. Though our seasonal businesses may not have a moment to spare, many other businesses do make sure their employees take some time off in August. With school coming back in-person for many families this fall, this August will likely be busier than ever as family’s have one last hurrah.
This month we’ll be highlighting some things you can do with your friends and family on your staycation. Some of these are one-of-a-kind events while others are activities that you may not have thought of. Here they are in no particular order:
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Maine’s two largest summer music theaters are taking different approaches to presenting live theater in their second seasons during the pandemic, but, like last year, neither will produce large-scale musicals on their longtime stages.
The Ogunquit Playhouse has constructed a massive covered outdoor pavilion on the pastoral playhouse lawn, where it will produce four Broadway-style musicals with seating for 450 people. Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick will produce a concert series, children’s productions and other events in its traditional home at Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus, but is moving its signature mainstage productions to the Westbrook Performing Arts Center and presenting those shows in September and October.
Maine State Music Theatre to stage its major productions in Westbrook this season
Because of pandemic-related uncertainties and Bowdoin College s schedule, the Brunswick-based theater felt it had to change venues for the shows to go on.
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The Westbrook Performing Arts Center, photographed in 2012, will host Maine State Music Theatre’s major productions this season.
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Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick will produce two mainstage shows this season, but stage them at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center because of scheduling restrictions at its longtime home at Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus.
This season will mark the first time Maine State has produced its mainstage musicals outside of Brunswick and only the second time off-campus. Curt Dale Clark, the theater’s artistic director, said he knows the news will disappoint some people in town.
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