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cert 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday,
Jan. 21; 8:30 p.m. Friday and Satur-
day, Jan. 22-23; and 3 p.m. Sunday,
Jan. 24, at Orchestra Hall. Big Band
Salute includes works by Duke Elling-
ton, Count Basie, Hoagy Carmichael,
George Gershwin, Glenn Miller and
others. $15-$60. (313) 576-1111 or
www.detroitsymphony.com .

In a musical trib-
ute to Martin
Luther King Jr.,
the Detroit Sym-
phony Orchestra
presents a family
concert, A Cele-
GAIL
bration
of Martin
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King,
Arts &
Direct from its Broadway run, the
p.m. Sunday, Jan.
Entertainment
Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy
Editor
15, at Orchestra
The Gin Game, starring five-time
Hall. Aaron Cop-
Tony Award winner and former
land's Lincoln Portrait, narrated by
Grosse Pointer Julie Harris and
Mayor Dennis Archer, is a highlight
Tony and Golden Globe winner
of the program, which includes a
Charles Dunning, comes to Music
movement from Dvorak's Symphony
Hall Center for the Performing
No. 9, Ellington's The Three Black
Arts next week. This production,
Kings and several gospel selections.
directed by Charles Nelson Reilly,
Tickets are $10. (313) 576-1111 or
won three Tony nominations,
www.detroitsymphony.com .
including a Broadway record-
Earlier in the weekend, for the
breaking 10th nomination for
first time in 10 years, the DSO per-
Harris. The Gin Game, a comedy
forms Brahms' A Ger-
man Requiem, which
brought the composer his
first major success.
Neeme Jarvi conducts
the orchestra, which will
be joined by soprano
Andrea Matthews, bari-
tone Kevin MacMillan
and the University Musi-
cal Society Choral
Union. Performances are
8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15;
and 8:30 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 16, at Orchestra
Hall. $13-$63.
(313) 576-1111 or
www.detroitsymphony.com .
of rivalry and budding romance
Lira, a trio composed of Larisa
between two stubborn retirees who
Matusova, Ida Kogan and Rivka
break through their loneliness to
Latinskaya, sings songs from all over
forge a friendship over a tumultuous
the world — in English, Russian,
series of gin games, will be performed
Hebrew, Yiddish, German and Italian
8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, Jan. 19-23,
— in a Cafe Europa Detroit concert
with 3 p.m. matinees Saturday and
12:45-2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, at the
Sunday, Jan. 23-24. Tickets are $25-
Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Commu-
$46.50. Call (313) 963-2366. Special
nity Center. Pianist Lyudmila Lebed-
$100 tickets are available for the
intseva provides the accompaniment.
opening night performance and
Refreshments will be served. Dona-
include a cocktail reception before
tions are accepted. (248) 967-4030.
the performance, preferred seating at
Conductor and trumpet soloist Jeff
the show and dinner afterwards at
Tyzik recaptures the sounds of the
Intermezzo Ristorante with a sched-
Swing Era in a DSO Pops Series con-
uled appearance by Harris and Durn-

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ing. For information on the $100
tickets, call (313) 962-2366.
A young woman agrees to help an
elderly couple bring peace to a dying
friend and soon discovers that things
aren't what they appear to be in Ira
Levin's Veronica's Room, opening Jan.
21 and running through Jan. 31, in
the Studio Theatre at Wayne State
University. The Studio Theatre is
located in the lower level of the
Hilberry Theatre at 4743 Cass Ave.,
on Wayne's campus. $81$6 students
and seniors. Call for show times,
(313) 577-2972.
Playing through March 14 at

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Featuring a company of 50 from the
Russian National Ballet, the love story
of Prince Siegfried and the exquisite
Odette is told in the Tchaikovsky bal-
let classic Swan Lake, which will be
performed 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, at
Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts. $28/$24 students and senior cit-
izens. (810) 286-2222.

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The Historic Redford Theatre and
Motor City Theatre Organ Society
screen Kander and Ebb's Oscar-
winning Cabaret 8 p.m. Friday,
Jan. 22; and 2 and 8 p.m. Satur-
day, Jan. 23, at the theater,
17360 Lahser Road at Grand
River. Organ overtures begin one-
half hour before show time.
$2.50. Tickets available at the
box office.

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Above; Israeli filmmaker Dan
Setton's "Diary of a Terrorist:
Mikdad" premieres on HBO.

Left: Julie Harris and Charles
Durning star in "The Gin
Game" at Music Hall.

Detroit Repertory Theatre,
Camp Logan, by Celeste
Bedford Walker, is a play set
in 1917 Houston and based
on the true story of the black
soldiers of the 24th Regi-
ment. In a confrontation with the
area's white citizenry, 20 persons were
killed or mortally wounded in the
only racially motivated riot to claim
more white lives than black. Less than
four months later, 13 soldiers of the
24th were hanged without appeal or
review under sentence by the largest
court-martial ever convened in the
U.S. Curtain times are 8:30 p.m.
Thursdays and Fridays, 3 and 8:30
p.m. Saturdays and 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sundays, through March 21. 13103
Woodrow Wilson, Detroit; adjacent
free parking with attendant. $15.
(313) 868-1347.

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Diary of a Terrorist: Mikdad
debuts 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, on
HBO, and reveals the deadly cat
and mouse game Middle East terrorists
engage in daily. Produced, directed and
edited by Israeli filmmaker Dan Set-
ton, who also made Suicide Bombers:
Secrets of the Shaheed, Mikdad retraces
the movements of Hussein Mikdad, a
family man and English speaking, col-
lege-educated Lebanese Muslim from
Beirut recruited by Hezbollah to carry
out a deadly attack on Israel. Check
your local listings.

Family Ftin

Disney Channel's On the Road
with Bear in the Big Blue House
offers local children the opportunity
to visit a giant replica of the "Big Blue
House," where they can sing, dance
and play with Bear and his friends,
Friday-Sunday, Jan. 15-17. Three live
15-minute shows will be performed
each day at 1, 3 and 5 p.m.. At the
Somerset Collection. (248) 643-6360.
The Plymouth International Ice
Spectacular, the oldest and largest ice
carving spectacle in North America,
runs through Monday, Jan. 18, in
Plymouth's Kellogg Park. Call the
event hotline for more information,
(734) 459-9157.

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