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Take A Bow ...
On Stage And Off

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special To The Jewish News

omedian Alan King and
singer/pianist Michael
Feinstein are among the big-
name talents
giving a lift to the 1997-
98 Jewish Community
(JCC) Center Encore
Series.
King brings his humor
to the Maple-Drake stage
Nov. 15, and Feinstein
celebrates romantic music
on Valentine's Day.
Also scheduled for
Maple-Drake perfor-
mances are singer Craig
Taubman, Sept. 28; vocal-
ist Debbie Friedman, Jan.
18; a Detroit Symphony
Orchestra ensemble,
March 8; and poet Yehuda
Amichai, April 19.
Encore visits the Jimmy
Prentis Morris Building
with a Detroit Symphony
Orchestra ensemble on
Jan. 11 and folk artist Kol
Sasson on April 4.
For information, call
(248) 661-7649.

Tickets prices are $18 for general
admission, $15 for seniors and $13
for students.
In other Gurwin activities, there
will be auditions for a children's pro-
duction of Rodgers and
Hammerstein's
Cinderella.
For information on both
shows, call (248) 288-
1508.

* While Nancy Gurwin
works on productions in
Michigan, her son,
Danny Gurwin, a musi-
cal theater graduate of
the University of
Michigan, is playing in
Sweeney Todd at the
Pioneer Theatre in Salt
Lake City, Utah. He has
the role of Tobias in the
professional regional com-
pany's three-week run.
"It's a great stretch
role, a journey that fol-
lows a shy and with-
drawn man as he
becomes aggressive and
ultimately out of con-
trol," said Gurwin, who
has been cast in his sec-
ond role at Pioneer.
Earlier, he had the part
of Jack in Into the Woods.
As Tobias, Gurwin
sings "Nothing's Going
to Harm You" and is
thrilled to be invited
back to the state and one
of its notable stages.

* Nuns — some actually
Jewish — bring universal
outreach and classic
American songs to the
Maple-Drake JCC as
Top: Lynn Bright:
part of Nancy Gurwin
A workout for
Presents. They are cast
local
performers.
members for her first
musical of the 1997-98
Middle: Michael Feinstein * Lynn Bright wants to
season, The Sound of
appears on Valentine's Day build on her 17
Music, which runs Oct.
as part of the Jewish
Hollywood years as a
18-Nov. 9 and stars
Community Center's
writer
and actress by
Laurie Jerrell and Ron
Encore Series.
conducting a weekly
Otulakowski.
If Otulakowski looks
Bottom: Danny Gurwin, workout for local per-
formers.
familiar, it could be
a graduate of U-M's
because he puts on the
musical theater program, With space set aside at
dinner-theater programs
is on the road in Sweeney the Southfield Centre
for the Arts, she will
at Kingsley Inn.
Todd.
conduct
classes exploring
The JCC curtain goes
how to relax on stage
up at 8 p.m. Saturdays
and how to approach a scene.
and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays, except for
Bright, who returned to Michigan
Oct. 19, when there is only a mati-
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