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A Farmington Hills native
plays a Wugrat' baby at
Detroit's Fox Theatre.

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SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to The Jewish News

id you know Amy Sonne when she
lived in Farmington Hills?
She graduated from North
Farmington High School in 1992 and
Michigan State University four years later, had her
bat mitzvah and additional religious studies at
Temple Israel, was a camper and later counselor at
Tamarack and took lessons and taught dance at
Annette and Co.
Well, Sonne (pronounced "sunny") followed her
dance dreams to New York and is about to return
to Michigan with a role on the professional stage.
She can be seen in the touring production Rugrats
— A Live Adventure.
Then, again, maybe "seen" isn't exactly the right
word. Sonne, portraying baby Phil Deyille, will be
in total disguise when the musical runs April 30-
May 9 at the Fox Theatre.
"We're in big costumes — big heads, big legs,
big arms," says Sonne, appearing in the 90-minute,
full-scale adaptation of the hugely popular Emmy
Award-winning animated Nickelodeon series. "You
can't really tell who's in there. We don't speak
because the babies are all tracked by actors who do
the voice-overs for the cartoon on television."

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1999

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