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SOUTHERN COMFORT

Located in the heart of the French
Quarter, historic Preservation Hall is a
must-see for visitors to New Orleans. It
was built as a residence in the 1750s and
was transformed over the years into a
tavern, a haven for writers and artists and
finally an art gallery During the 1950s,
art dealer Larry Borenstein hired veteran •
musicians to play at his gallery When
Sandra and Allen Jaffee, a Pennsylvania
couple with a love for jazz, bought the
building in 1961, they moved the art
gallery next door, kept the hall open for
jazz performances, and began booking
worldwide tours for what they called the
Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
An intergenerational mix of some of.
the best New Orleans-style players
around, the band has appeared at many
venues, including the Red Sea Jazz
Festival in Israel. A small group of musi-
cians continues to play seven nights a
week at the tiny Preservation Hall.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
comes to Orchestra Hall for concerts
with the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, under the direction of pops
conductor Erich Kunzel, 10:45 a.m.
and 8 p.m. Thursday, June 10; 8 p.m.
Friday, June 11; 8:30 p.m. Saturday,
June 12; and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 13.
$13-$65. (313) 576-5111;
www.detroitsymphony.com .

SWEET SUCCESS

The classic 1961 musical comedy
about a window washer who charms his
way to the top of a major company, How
to Succeed in Business Without Really
Trying won a Pulitzer Prize and seven
Tony Awards, including one for Best
Musical. With music and lyrics by Frank
Loesser ("I Believe in You," "Coffee
Break," "A Secretary Is Not a Toy") and
book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock
and Willie Gilbert, the musical has
enjoyed several successful Broadway
revivals. In 1995, Matthew Broderick,
like Robert Morse before him, won a
Tony for Best Actor in a Musical.
How to Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying will be presented in the
outdoor Greek theater at Cranbrook
by St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild
Fridays-Sundays, June 4-12. All per-

formance are at 8:30 p.m.,
except on Sunday, June 6,
when there is a 2 p.m.
matinee. Members of the
Jewish community fea-
tured in the cast include
Heather Bell, Susan Borin,
Mark Nathanson, Don
Shore and Susan Tauber.
Tickets are $15 general
admission/$12 seniors and
students. For more informa-
tion, call (248) 644-0527.

Comedy Club, 5070
Schaefer Road, Dearborn.
Tickets are $15; dinner
show packages are $27.95.
For more information, call
(313) 584-8885.

GAIL ZIMMERMAN
A rts c;',- Entertainment

Looking for some great
ideas to refurbish, expand or
redecorate your home? The
Friends of the Huntington Woods
Library provide inspiration again this
year with the annual Huntington
Woods House Tour, 1-5 p.m. Sunday
June 6. The tour will feature six unique
homes and a reception in the Woods
Gallery, located in the lower level of the
library, at 26415 Scotia.
Advance tickets may be purchased
at the library for $7; day-of-tour tick-
ets are $8 and are available in front of
the library from 12-3 p.m. For more
information, call (248) 543-9720.

Editor

GE I I ING
THE WILLEYS

Walt Willey is probably best
known as attorney Jackson
Montgomery on the soap opera All
My Children. His on-again, off-again
relationship with Erica Kane (Susan
Lucci — yes, she finally won that
Daytime Emmy!) has been one of the
soap's most popular story lines.
The actor exercises his funny bone as
a published satirist and cartoonist and
with a stand-up comedy career that has
taken him to some of the top comedy
clubs in the country. The subjects of his
humor range from the topical to the
universal, from sex to pets and, of
course, his favorite "soap." His song
parody "Here in Pine Valley" is con-
stantly reinvented with new verses.
Willey performs 8:15. and 10:45
p.m. Saturday, June 5, at Joey's

The Preservation
Hall Jazz Band
per firms with
the DSO in
the final Pops
concert of
the season.

INTO THE
WOODS

MAGNIFICO

"Contemporary Art From Cuba:
Irony and Survival on the Utopian
Island," opening today and running
through August 15 at Cranbrook Art
Museum, brings together the dynamic
work of 20 young Cuban artists. All of
them are creating art that celebrates
the rich history and culture of Cuba

while revealing the complex realities of
contemporary Cuban life.
Marilyn Zeitlin, director of Arizona
State University Art Museum, curated
the exhibit. "Unlike their predecessors
who launched direct attacks against
official Cuba and who soon found
exile was the best alternative to
silence, the artists in this exhibition
have developed a visual language based
on irony, humor and oblique satire for
commenting upon Cuban reality,"
says Zeitlin. "Through their work,
they speculate on Cuba's complicated
past, its love/hate relationship with the d
United States and its cultural unique-
ness as a nexus of African, European
and Asian cultures." Zeitlin will lec-
ture at the museum on July 23.
Cranbrook Art Museum is located at
1221 N. Woodward Avenue in
Bloomfield Hills. Summer hours are 11
a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays, with
new Friday evening hours until 10 p.m.,
featuring educational programming, jazz
concerts and refreshments. $5 adults/$3
students, children and seniors/5 and
under and members free. For more
information, call (877) 462-7262.

THE WILDER SIDE

Ann Arbor's Young People's Theater
will stage Thornton Wilder's classic
play Our Town at Ann Arbor Civic
Theater 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday
and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June
10-13, in a production suitable for the
whole family. The theater is located at
2275 Platt Road.
Using methods created by the great
acting coach Sanford Meisner, the 34-
member cast of 8-15-year-olds, under
the direction of actress/teacher Loretta c-\
Grimes, will utilize a bare stage, mini-
mal props and pantomime to bring the
production to life. Winner of the 1937
Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Our Town
begins in 1901, and portrays the every-
day life of the people of the village of
Grover's Corner, N.H. Cast members
from Washtenaw County's Jewish com-
munity include John Boonin,
Alexander Jacobson, Hannah Jacobson,
Jacob Lehman and Arielle Lipshaw.
Tickets are $7 adults/$5 students and
are available at the door or by calling
Young People's Theater, (734) 971-7207.

FYI: For Arts and Entertainment related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number,
to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 354-6069; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com 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.

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