Entertainment

What To Do, What To Do ..

Musical
Notes

is Studies at Wayne State University
and Temple Israel co-host a musical
concert featuring Alhambra. The 3:30
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, program at Tem-
ple Israel will feature Middle Eastern
and North African rhythms and include
songs of courtship, marriage and holi-
days in the Judeo-Spanish tradition, as
well as music for the upcoming
Chanukah season. Free admission; to
reserve tickets, call (248) 661-5700.
The Zamir Chorale of Metropoli-
tan Detroit performs its annual fall
concert 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, in the
Janice Charach Epstein Gallery at the
Kahn Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield. Fathers and Sons: A
Musical
Exploration
will focus on
songs from
various eras
of Jewish
history and
the relation-
ship between
parent and

concerts 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 27, and
8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 28-
29, at St. Andrew's Hall, 431 E. Con-
gress, Detroit. $20. (248) 645-6666.

On The Stage

the-minute pop culture. 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 23, at the Detroit Insti-
tute of Arts. $5.50. (313) 833 2323.
The Rugrats Movie, an animated
feature film based on the Nickelodeon
series, features the intermarried Pickles
family and opens on the silver screen
Wednesday, Nov. 25. Didi Pickles,
voiced by Melanie Chartoff, is Jewish
and an overly concerned mom who
seeks the advice of child psychologist
Dr. Lipschitz to make sure she's raising
her children right.

-

He's been dubbed
Tevye and family visit Macomb Cen-
"the prince of the
ter for the Performing Arts with four
new folk move-
performances of Fiddler on the Roof, 8
ment"; singer/song-
p.m. Friday, Nov. 20; 2:30 and 8 p.m.
writer John Gorka
GAIL
Saturday, Nov. 21; and 3 p.m. Sunday,
explores
the
joys
ZIMMERMAN
Nov. 22. $30/$27 students and seniors.
Arts 6-
and sorrows of the
Entertainment
(810) 286 2222.
human condition
Editor
An array of one-act works by Anton
in a 7:30 p.m. Sat-
Chekhov, including The Marriage Pro-
urday, Nov. 21,
posal, will be performed as the Theatre
concert at the Ark, 316 S. Main St.,
Neil Diamond croons the tunes from
Company presents Chekhov, directed
Ann Arbor. $13.50. (248) 645-6666.
his new CD, Neil Diamond: The Movie
by David Regal. 8 p.m. Thursdays-Fri- Album, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, on
For more than 20 years, the con-
days and 2 p.m. Sundays, Nov.
temporary jazz quintet of Spyro Gyra
an American Movie Classics (AMC) spe-
20-Dec. 6 (no performance on
cial, "Neil Diamond: The Making of the
has been entertaining audiences with
Nov. 26), in the Earl D. Smith
its unique fusion of instrumental jazz
Movie Album." He is joined by musical
z Theatre on the McNichols cam-
and rhythm and blues. Led by founder
conductor Elmer Bernstein. Check your
pus of University of Detroit
local cable listings.
and bandleader saxophonist Jay Beck-
Mercy. $10/$8 students and
The Academy Award-winning short
enstein, the group performs 8 p.m.
t seniors. (313) 993-1130.
Molly's Pilgrim will be shown by the
Saturday, Nov. 21, in an Ameritech
The stage is transformed into
Odyssey Channel 3:30 p.m. Thursday,
Jazz Series performance at Orchestra
19th-century London in Meadow Nov. 26. The film tells the story of
Hall. $15-$60. (313) 576-5111.
Brook Theatre's production of
Molly, a young Russian Jewish girl
U-M faculty members Stephen
Charles Dickens' A Christmas
teased by classmates for her ethnic
Shipps and
Carol, featuring Booth Colman
background. She is accepted by her
Louis Nagel
as Ebenezer Scrooge, Nov. 21-
peers when her mother creates a doll
perform rarely
Dec. 27 on the campus of Oak-
based on a Thanksgiving character.
heard concerto
land University in Rochester.
Check your local cable listings.
for piano and
$19.50-$36.
Call
for
showtimes.
violin by
Alhambra performs Sunday
(248) 377-3300.
Mendelssohn,
at Temple Israel.
as well as
works by Bar-
The Second-City Detroit celebrates
child from infancy to
tok and
its
fifth anniversary with its 14th live
adulthood. Free admis-
Mozart, with
Temple
Emanu-El's
Jewish
Film
comedy
revue, Daimlers Are a Girl's
sion; seating limited to
the Michigan
Series
presents
Judgment
at
Nurem-
Best
Friend,
8 p.m. Wednesdays-Sun-
the first 200 people.
Chamber
berg,
an
examination
of
Nazism
and
days,
with
additional
10:30 p.m.
(313) 861-8990 or
Symphony
its
motivations
through
the
famed
shows
on
Fridays
and
Saturdays. $10
(248) 901-3400.
Orchestra, 8
Nuremberg
trials
following
World
Wednesdays,
Thursdays
and Sun-
The Emerson String
Spyro Gyra takes the stage Saturday at
p.m. Satur-
War
II,
7:30
p.m.
Saturday,
Nov.
21,
days/$17.50
Fridays/$19.50
Saturdays.
Quartet performs
day, Nov. 21, Orchestra Hall.
in
the
temple's
Katz-
(313)
965-2222.
Mozart's Quartet in D
at Temple
man Hall. 14450 W.
He looks like
Quartet No. 2 in
major,
Shostakovich's
Beth El. $20. (248) 601-MCSO.
10
Mile,
Oak
Park.
Steve
Martin, has
A major and is joined by pianist Mena-
The 3 Baritones (Pablo Elvira,
$4.
(248)
967-4023.
been
called
the "Jew-
hem Pressler (of the Beaux Arts Trio)
Dino Valle and Quinto Milito) join
The
Detroit
Film
ish
Bill
Cosby"
and
for Brahm's Piano Quintet in F minor
Metropolitan Opera tenor George
Theatre
screens
Dan
writes
a
humor
col-
in a University Musical Society appear-
Shirley, bayanist Peter Soave and the
Zukovic's The Last
umn which appears
ance 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at Rack-
Rochester Symphony Orchestra in a
Big
Thing,
in
which
regularly in The Jew-
ham Auditorium in Ann Arbor. $18-
performance of operatic arias, classical
writer/director
ish News. Rabbi Bob
$32. (734) 764-2538.
songs and a tribute to Frank Sinatra 3
Alper performs
Zukovic
stars
as
Rockin' for the past 20 years and
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at Orchestra
stand-up comedy 7
Simon Geist, an
merging
Beatlesque pop and heavy
Hall. $15-$100. (313) 576-5111.
p.m. Sunday, Nov.
angry
and
eccentric
Jewish
mom
Didi
Pickles
in
"The
The Cohn-Haddow Center for Juda- metal, Cheap Trick plays a weekend of
hater of all up-to-
22,
at Temple
Rugrats Movie," opening Wednesday.

-

The Small Screen

Laugh Lines

The Big Screen

OUT & ABOUT NOTES: If you have an entertainment related event that you would like to have con-
sidered for listing in Out & About, please send the item, including a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone num-
ber, to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48034; or fax us at (248) 354-6069. Notice must be received
at least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject
to change.

11/20
1998

80 Detroit Jewish News