Arts Entertainment

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The reigning virtu-
oso of the violin,
Itzhak Perlman
returns to the
Detroit area 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 11,
at Macomb Center
GAIL
for the Performing
ZIMMERMAN
Arts.
If you missed
Arts 6.
his
triumphant
per-
Entertainment
formance last fall at
Editor
Orchestra Hall in
which he helped to salute the 100th
anniversary of Detroit's organized
Jewish community, this is your chance
to hear a musician renowned not only
for his flawless technique but for his
charm and humanity. $55 adults/$48
students and seniors. (810) 286-2222.
Box seats for the dress rehearsal of
the Michigan Opera Theatre produc-
tion of Eugene Onegin are being
offered as a benefit for Brandeis
University in a performance on
Thursday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. Bus
transportation from the Congregation
Shaarey Zedek parking lot to the
Detroit Opera House will be provid-
ed and is included in the $50 cost.
Proceeds will benefit the technology
fund of the university. For more
information or tickets, call Harriet
Shogan, (248) 788-9613, or Sonya
Goldberg, (248) 851-6495.
Reservations close May 3.
Elliott Smith, whose "Miss Misery"
from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack
was nominated last year for an
Academy Award for Best Original Song,
comes to St. Andrew's Hall Saturday,
April 3. He will perform selections from
his new CD, X0, his major-label debut
and a lush departure from his usually
spare offerings. Doors at 8; Smith goes
on at 10:30. 431 E. Congress, Detroit.
$11. (313) 963-7237.
One of the most popular and corn-
mercially successful young jazz singers
on the scene, Cassandra Wilson per-
forms a tribute to Miles Davis 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 3, at Pease Auditorium
on the campus of Eastern Michigan
University in Ypsilanti. Net proceeds
benefit the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz
Festival. $25/$20. (248) 645-6666.

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Award and Pulitzer Prize-Winning
drama which chronicles the homecom-
ing of a World War II veteran. It will be
performed at Wayne State University's
Studio Theatre 8 p.m. Thursdays-
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, April 8-
11 and 15-18. The Studio Theatre is
located downstairs from the Hilberry,
4743 Cass Ave., at Hancock, in Detroit.
$8/$6 students. (313) 577-2972.

Cellist Vladimir Babin and pianist
Vladislav Kovalsky perform works by
Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and
Brahms 8 p.m. Saturday, April 3, at
Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N.
Fourth, Ann Arbor. $5-$15. For reser-
vations, call (734) 769-2999.
Named after a
phrase in Ayn Rand's
Below: Elliott Smith performs
novel Atlas Shrugged,
Saturday
at St. Andrew's Hall.
Collective Soul has
Right: Detail from Freda Kroll's "La
built on the success of
Dolce Vita," at the Woods Gallery.
the group's very first
single, "Shine," to sell
more than 5 million
records. The band
appears with special
guests Marvelous 3 in
a show beginning 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, April 6,
at the State Theatre in
Detroit. $21.
(248) 645-6666.

On The

Oa and
Community College
and Orchard Ridge
Players mount a production
of Neil Simon's London Suite
8 p.m. Thursday and Friday,
April 8-9, at the Smith
Theatre on the' Orchard Ridge
Campus of Oakland
Community College, located
at Orchard Lake Road and I-
696. Debra Silverman and
Andrew Levin are part of the
cast in this four-part classic
comedy. $7 adults/$4 stu-
dents. (248) 471-7667.
Neil Simon's comedy about
a young recruit enduring the
indignities of boot camp in
World War II, Biloxi Blues
opens Friday, April 9, in a
Theatre Company production
at the McAuley Theatre on
the Outer Drive Campus of the
University of Detroit Mercy. A pre-
view performance takes place
Thursday, April 8. Show times are 8
p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays. $10/$8 students and seniors.
(313) 993-1130.
The Subject Was Roses is a Tony

8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays, April 8-18. $18 adults/$16
students. For tickets and more informa-
tion, call (734) 971-2228.
An explosive, experimental version
of Shakespeare's last play about illu-
sion, revenge and reconciliation —
which casts Prospero as a woman —
The Tempest takes the stage 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 3 p.m.
Sundays, April 8-May 2, at Planet
Ant, 2357 Caniff, 3 blocks east of
1-75, in Hamtramck. The produc-
tion is intensified by a live-DJ mix
soundtrack performed by Mark
Ephraim, lead singer and son-
writer of Walk on Water.
Suggested donation: $10. For
reservations, call (313) 365-4948.

University of Michigan's
University Activities Center pre-
sents An Evening with Ellen
DeGeneres: Speaking Honestly 8
p.m. Thursday, April 8, at Hill
Auditorium in Ann Arbor.
Currently starring in the Ron
Howard film EdTV,
DeGeneres has newly joined
the lecture circuit. Her pre-
sentation will be followed by
a question-and-answer peri-
od. $15/$12.50 students.
(248) 645-6666.
It's Hash Bash. Comedian
Tommy Chong brings his
offbeat humor to Ann
Arbor's Michigan Theater 2
p.m. Saturday, April 3. $10-
$35. (248) 645-6666.

The YiddiSh Film Series
presents The Visas That
Saved Lives 7:30 p.m.
Above: Darcy Scott:
Sunday,
April 4, and 12:45
"The Procession," watercolor,
p.m.
Monday,
April 5, at the
at the Cary Gallery.
Jimmy Prentis Morris
Left: "Satchel Paige," from
Building of the Jewish
"Discover Greatness! An
Community Center in Oak
Illustrated History of Negro
Park. While American con-
The Ann Arbor Leagues Baseball," opening
suls throughout the neutral
Civic Theatre pre- Saturday at the Museum of world were instructed not to
African American History.
sents The Sound
grant such visas, the
of Music, a
Japanese consul in this film
Richard Rodgers
took it upon himself to issue an esti-
and Oscar Hammerstein II classic for
mated 1,600 visas and save several
the whole family set against the back-
thousand lives. No admission
drop of the Nazi occupation of Austria,
charge. (248) 967-4030.

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4/2
1999

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