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That's Entertainment
The Cuban National Folkloric
Dance Ensemble
8 P.M. Tuesday, January 30
adult $23 • student/sr. cit. $21
Tower of Power
sponsored by
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CHUCK PASQUE
8 P.M. Thursday, February 1
adult $21 • student/sr. cit. $19
Mark Russell
8 P.M. Saturday, February 3
adult $24 • student/sr. cit. $22
Jazz at Lincoln Center
featuring
Wynton Marsalis, Conductor
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7 P.M. Sunday, February 4
adult $27 • student/sr. cit. $24
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on the
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and to order tickets,
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Barrymore.
With the coaxing of his virginal
If you're looking for something
theatrical to do this weekend, girlfriend, theater agent and re-
plan to attend I Hate Hamlet at altor, Rally agrees to play the
the Players Guild of Dearborn. role, much to the chagrin of his
TV agent. And with ex-
Or I Hate Hamlet at St.
pert coaching — from
Dunstan's Guild of
the ghost of John Bar-
Cranbrook. Or I Hate
rymore — Rally strives
Hamlet at Grosse
to achieve Shakespeare-
Pointe Theatre. Not to
an superiority. Does he
be confused, of course,
succeed? You'll just have
with I Hate Hamlet that
to go to Dearborn — or
ran at Village Players in
Birmingham in June. JULIE SMITH YOLLES Bloomfield Hills — or
ARTS & ENT ERTAIN-
Grosse Pointe to find
Or I Hate Hamlet that
MENT ED ITOR
out.
ran in February last
Ross Grossman of
year at Meadow Brook.
"I Hate Hamlet was one of our Oak Park enjoyed playing An-
best-attended shows last year," drew Rally so much, that after
said Michael Vigilant, public- a debut stint this summer at Vil-
lage Players, he re-
PHOTO BY BRIAN TOWNSEND
turns to the Players
Guild of Dearborn to
reprise the role. This
is closing weekend for
his show.
"I hadn't planned
on trying out again
for the show," said
Grossman, who's a
clinical case manager
by day. "But then I
thought, 'How am I
going to watch some-
one else play the
role?' So I decided to
audition."
Alan Ellias, on
the other hand, liked
the role of the TV
agent, Gary Peter
Lefkowitz, when he
went to see Gross-
man play Hamlet at
Village Players.
"Gary is a really
funny part, and I
thought that I could
bring my own per-
"Full season. Three million dollars—no tights..."
sonal flair to the role
negotiates Alan Ellias (the agent), right, with Ross
— Gary is L.A. chic,"
Grossman (Hamlet/Andrew) and Jeanine Matlow (the
said Ellias.
realtor) at the Players Guild of Dearborn.
Ellias returns to
relations manager for Meadow the Players Guild of Dearborn
Brook Theatre. "There are a lot stage after a five-year hiatus,.
of people who really hate Ham- Past roles include the laughing
let, so it's fun to come and see a gas-loving dentist in Little Shop
comedy where the lead character ofHorrors and chorus member in
takes such enjoyment at mock- Annie.
Then there's Jeanine Mat-
ing him."
And it's quite a comedy indeed. low who plays the role of the re-
In case you've somehow managed altor with much comedic flair.
to miss the show at one of the zil- She saw I Hate Hamlet twice
lion theaters locally that have when she lived in New York. So
presented it, I Hate Hamlet is it was a natural to try out when
about a mediocre, but successful she moved to Dearborn after her
TV actor who makes the bucks husband transferred to Ford.
Grossman did have one piece
doing commercials and a weekly
TV show, "L.A. Medical" — an of critical advice for future would-
be Hamlets: "The tights itch like
"ER" take-off.
The actor, Andrew Rally, crazy. Always have a back-up
comes to New York, unwillingly, pair — in case they run."
Oh, by the way, where will I be
to play Hamlet in Central Park.
He moves into, coincidentally, a this weekend? Running spots
medievalesque apartment previ- from the light booth at St. Dun-
ously occupied by the late John stan's, of course. I Hate Hainlet.
A Run On Tights
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