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He wrote a sequel, The Legacy, and plays about other subjects, including Lost Highway — The Music and Legend of Hank Williams. "When I was living at home, we had a reasonably active Jewish family life for country Jews," Harelik says. "When I went away to college, all that stopped. I expect my connec- tion to that was my family and not the technical aspects of practicing Judaism, although much of my writ- ing is about Jewish life. "My personal spiritual needs have been fulfilled with the practice of yoga and have been for many years. It's something that I found not long after I was out of college. I don't find myself to be spiritually needy, but I have nostalgia for things Jewish and Jewish family celebrations. Every year, there is a seder I attend. It's less spiritually oriented than it is nostalgi- cally oriented because it takes me back to my childhood." Several years ago, Harelik appeared at the Fisher Theatre in The Heidi Chronicles. When he came into town, he was invited to meet with people who had been tracing their genealogy and shared his last name. Morris Harelik, through business contacts, had connected earlier with the playwright's uncle. "Our families had immigrated from the same part of Russia, but we don't know if we're blood relations," explains Morris Harelik of West Bloomfield, who has learned that both families could look back on some of the same given names and wonders if that indicates relation- ships. The family members that Mark Harelik knows well have had upbeat reactions to The Immigrant. "The play is a pretty flattering portrait of our progenitors and of life in Texas, so the family reaction has been extremely favorable," says Harelik, who is preparing to portray the father of the leading character's fiance in TV's Boy Meets World. "The sequel to The Immigrant has been produced on the West Coast. The portraits are not as flattering, and the events don't come to such a happy conclusion. The family response has been a little different to that one." Harelik's next play will be about child abuse, and he's doing extensive research on the subject. "I'm an amateur scholar," he says. "I pick a subject and delve into it as deeply as I can." The Immigrant will be per- formed at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield Previews run 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 6-7, and 2 p.m. Sunday Oct. 10. Opening night is at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10. Regular performances continue 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays; 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 7. There will be a Wednesday matinee on Oct. 27. $15 for Previews/$21 Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings/$25 Saturday evenings/$18 Wednesday and Sunday matinees. (248) 788- 2900. NEWSPAPERS .r...... ak 0..h.. unliTitecla HOUR ■ Barry D. & Edith S. Briskin NEXTEL V J RICOH BUSINESS SYSTEMS !,. .1A CZINE MENIIINJII1M1111111110111 1 1111111111110 •1111 i teX( //, Art Galleries Co. 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