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LiLIE YOLLES ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

ife on the road has not been too shabby for Robin Lyon and her 4-year-

"It feels like
Andrew Lloyd
Webber
wrote me a
one woman
show with an
orchestra,"
Robin Lyon
says about
her role as
the Narrator

-

in Joseph and
th e Amazing

Technicolor
Dreamcoat."

old daughter, Madison — at least not during their stays in Detroit.
As the Narrator, the vocally intensive starring role in Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Lyon and Madison have had makeshift
homes in Chicago, Boston and twice in Detroit.
"Wherever we go, we just put our roots down and live a totally normal life for
Madison," says Lyon, who's been touring with the production for one year. "I cook
every night, or maybe every once in a while we go to Burg-
er King. It's a total family lifestyle because that's very im-
portant to me. We do everything that we would do in New
York," their home.
"People always ask me, 'What are you doing on your day
off?,'and I laugh, because I don't get a day off. I still have to
wake up at 7:45 to get Madison to school when everybody
else is having Mondays and Tuesdays off," says Lyon.
While most of the cast and crew are staying in meager,
rented apartments in Detroit, Lyon and Madison are en-
joying their stay in the plush, loving Bloomfield Hills home
of Phyllis and Marshall Loewenstein.
Lyon has known the Loewensteins since she first met
their daughter Judy when both girls were 10-years-olds at
Nicolet Camp in Wisconsin. Every year, they were campers
together. Then counselors. Lyon even dated Judy's broth-
ers.
Needless to say, Lyon's been particularly happy hanging out again with her
childhood friends and spending the High Holidays together. "Rosh Hashanah.
was a three-day food fest," laughs the lithe actress, who performs at the Thurs-
day matinee and Sunday evening shows. So that Lyon could spend Yom Kippur
with the family and see Phyllis Loewenstein read from the Torah at Temple Beth
El, Lyon swapped shows with the other Narrator.
Tonight, Lyon will be featured in a unique performance when she joins Can- Robin Lyon and her daughter, Madison Rose Gardiner — nicknamed Madison Square Gardiner by
her dad's softball team — have enjoyed the hospitality of their second family, the Loewensteins,
for Stephen Dubov in a special Sukkot/Shabbat concert.
Throughout the tour, Lyon's husband, a restaurateur in New York, visits when while in Detroit.
he can.
"Chez Loewenstein," pack up clothes, books and toys, and head back to New York
"He's been my biggest supporter since I've known him. He pushed me out the to rejoin her husband and start the next phase in their lives.
door when I got this job. He said , This is what you've been waiting for,' " she says
"It's just been a true technicolor adventure for us," she said. 111
of her husband, Brad Gardiner. "He's been wonderful about this year. After 10
Joseph and the Amazing Tech,nicolor Dreamcoat runs at 8 p.m. Wednesday and
years of marriage and having a baby, it's been kind of exciting."
Friday; 1 and 8 p.m. Thursday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; and 1 and 5:30 p4,m. Sun-
Following Sunday's 5:30 p.m. show, Lyon will say goodbye to the cast and crew
day. Tickets are $10-857.50. (313) 983-6611.
with
for
the
year,
straighten
her
lower-level
living
quarters
at
she's dreamcoated

Gilda's Club

Take a sentimental journey
back to the era of swing and
cloo-wop harmonies. Borders
Books and Music, Farming-
ton Hills. (810) 737-0110.

Sun., 2-4 p.m.

Walk or run through Detroit
to benefit the nonprofit cancer
support group at its annual
Family Walk and Block
Party. Cobo Center, Detroit.
(810) 851-6557.

Rather, Sunday Sail. Take
a boat tour through the
canals of historic Creekside
Corrununity with the Detroit
Historical Society.
(313) 833-1405.

Sun., 10 a.m.

Sun., 2 p.m.

IRP Photo-Art Show

Carouse

Members of the Institute for
Retired Professionals will be on
hand at an opening reception
for their exhibit, featuring
works by award-winning
photographers. Maple-Drake
JCC. (810) 967-4030.

The Rodgers and Hammer-
stein musical has an all-new
Ton3r Award-winning produc-
tion for its run at the Detroit
Opera House. (313) 872-1000.

Mon., 4-6:30 p.m.

Tues.-Fri., 8 p.m.;
Sat., 2 & 8 p.m.;
Sun., 1 & 6:30 p.m.

