Best Bets
FABULOUS FINERY
on to a successful career
not only as a musician
but as an actor on the
big screen.
Last year, fans were
Harry Connick J r.
surprised to see
grew up the son of two
Connick — alongside a
lawyers who co-owned a
number of Jewish
record store in New
celebrities — appear on
Orleans, La. He began
TV during the CBS
playing piano at age 3
tribute to Israel's 50th
and was accomplished
anniversary.
enough to perform at
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Surprisingly, Conflict:
his father's swearing-in
Arts & Entertainment
does have ties to the
ceremony as New
Editor
Jewish community.
Orleans District
1 have Jewish her-
Attorney at age 6.
itage on my mother's side. My moth,
By the time he was
er was Jewish, but I was raised
1-0, he made his debut with a New
Catholic. By the time I knew her, she
Orleans jazz band. The songs he con-
was sort of non-denominational," he
tributed to the film soundtrack of
told our sister paper The Atlanta
When Harry Met Sally marked his first
Jewish Times. Connick's mother
multi-platinum success, and he's gone
passed away when
he was very young.
Harry Connick Jr.
and his Big Band
"Come By Me" tour,
in support of his lat-
est CD release, heads
to Pine Knob 7:30
p.m. Monday, Aug. 9.
Tickets are-S45 pavil-
ion/$29.50 lawn.
(248) 645-6666.
WILD ABOUT
HARRY
Hudson's and the Founders
Council of the Detroit Institute of
Arts celebrates the 30th anniversary of
Fash Bash this year on Wednesday,
Aug. 11, at the Fox Theatre.
The event, attracting 5,000 guests
each year, is the single largest auxiliary
fund-raiser for the DIA, raising more
than S2 million since its inception.
In conjunction with this year's
theme, "A World Odyssey of Fashion
& Adventure," fall fashions influ-
enced by trends and traditions from
around the world will be featured.
Showcasing the latest fall looks, this
year's designers include Sonia Rykiel,
Jean Paul Gaultier, Missoni, Anne
Klein, Ellen Tracy, Cheap & Chic,
Escada, Margaretha Ley, Michael
Kors, Ralph Lauren Collection and
Moschi no.
Multimedia and live
entertainment on the run-
way include comedienne
Wanda Sykes-Hall as emcee,
tap dance king Savion
Glover and dance group
Muntu, as well as bands
from around the world.
While Fash Bash is tradi-
tionally a black tie event,
guests this year are encour-
aged to have fun with the
Odyssey theme and dress in
fashions inspired by their
favorite travel destinations.
Fox Theatre doors open
at 6:30 p.m. for pre-show
mingling and people watch-
ing. The show begins at 8
p.m., followed by dancing
at the After Bash at the
State Theatre next door.
Tickets are $175 for
patrons, $45 for sponsors,
$30 for individual ticket
holders, and are available at
the DIA box office, (313)
833-6760; the Fox Theatre
Box Office, (248) 433-
1515; and Ticketmaster
outlets, (248) 645-6666.
Patron tickets are available
at the DIA and Fox
Theatre box offices only.
Keith Lockhart conducts the Boston Pops on Thursday at the Fox Theatre.
MARIAN
THE LIBRARIAN
Leslie Ann Handelman of West
Bloomfield takes on the role of librarian
Marian Paroo in Warren Civic Theatre's
production of Meredith Wilsson's The
Music Man this weekend and next in
the Warren Woods Auditorium, 13400
12 Mile Road at Schoenherr, in Warren.
She played the same role as a student at
West Bloomfield High School.
Joining. Handelman in the show are
Jewish actors Kristi Sorkin and Arlene
Sorkin of West Bloomfield and Randy
Barrett Topper of Farmington Hills.
Playing opposite Handelman as
Professor Harold Hill is John Michael
Manfredi of Auburn Hills, who was
seen in last season's Resident Alien at
Jewish Ensemble Theatre, where he
also directed Never the Sinner.
In this musical for the whole family,
directed by Hilberry Theatre graduate
Greg Trzaskoma, Professor Hill starts
out as a traveling salesman out to swin-
dle the residents of River City, Iowa, but
in the process falls in love with Marian.
Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays, August 6-7 and 13-14, and
2.p.m.'Sundays, August 8 and 16.
Tickets are $10/$6/$4. For informa-
tion, call (810) 751-8080.
POPS GOES THE
Fox
Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Esplanade
Orchestra return to Detroit's Fox Theatre with Bean town's
favorite summertime tradition 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12.
The "1999 Boston Pops Swing Tour" also will feature the
British dance troupe the Jivin' Lindy Hoppers in an
evening of swing music from the '40s to the present.
The program will salute the big bands of Count Basic,
Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw
and Brian Setzer and end with a centennial tribute to Duke
Ellington. The music of composers George Gershwin,
Leonard Bernstein and Scott Joplin will be highlighted.
This is Lockhart's fifth season as Boston Pops conductor.
He's had a busy year, including four new programs for the
30th season of the PBS series Evening at the Pops and the
release of his fifth album with the orchestra, A Splash of Pops.
In addition to his activities in Boston, he also completed his
first year as music director of the Utah Symphony.
Tickets are $37.50/$50/$75 and are available by calling
(248) 433-1515.
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8/6
1999
84 Detroit Jewish News