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a lecture by

Ruth R Wisse

Harvard University

Nick's popular animated series
makes the jump to the stage at the Fox.

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Ruth Wisse is professor of Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard .Universi-
ty A world renowned expert on Yiddish prose and poetry, she is the author of nu-
merous books and articles on I. L. Peretz and Sholem Aleichem. Professor Wisse is
a regular contributor to Commentary, New Republic and Moment, and a contributing
editor to the Jerusalem Report.

Sunday, May 10, 1998
3 p.m.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
27375 Bell Rd., Southfield

Sponsored in part through the generosity of
The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation
in memory of Morris D. Baker

The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information,
please call the Cohn-Haddow Center at (313) 577-2679.

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Clockwise from top right: Spike the dog, Chuckie Finster, Lil and Phil DeVille
Tommy Pickles, and Tommy's mom, Dee-Dee Pickles.

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR
Special to The Jewish News

here was a time when the-
ater for kids meant happy
clown-like characters that
waved to the crowd and
shuffled as they sang to nursery
rhymes. With low-budget sets on sim-
ple stages, the shows were more
inclined to induce sleep in both par-
ents and tots.
Then came Rugrats — The Live
Adventure.
Fitted with high-tech projected sets
and a score by the founder of the late
1970s band Devo, the live show, based
on Nickelodeon's animated series, has
won raves from critics in Connecticut
where it debuted in early February as
well as other points on its national tour.

Now the show, fresh from a stop at
New York City's Radio City Music
Hall, will perform in Detroit for nine
days starting May 8 at the Fox The-
atre.
"We haven't played a real Midwest-
ern city yet," said Jonathan Hochwald,
the show's executive producer and
president of PACE Entertainment.
"For a lot of kids, this will be their
first time to the Fox, the first time in a
theater, the first time to a live show.
"But I think the kids are going to
go crazy," he said.
It would be hard not to. Featuring
a script by the Emmy Award-winning
cartoon's main writers and dancing
and directing by a nationally known
choreographer, the live version will
focus on the larger than life-size ver-
sions of the popular lead character,