The Yewish Community Center

9urius Cliajes/Encore Concert Series presents

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Ensemble

CutTime Players

Sunday, February 6, 2000 • 3 p.m,

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building
Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6600 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322
Members: $10 • Non-members: $15

This eight-person ensemble from the D.S.O. will perform the music of

Ginka, Mahler, Mendelssohn and Bolling. The group also will play

two Jewish medleys, including such songs as To Life from Fiddler on

the Roof, Yiddische Momme and Turn Balalaika,

Director Yolanda Fleischer:
"A few of my students are still blushing,
but there's so much humor in the skits,
we giggle in anticipation."

Funded in part by: Natalie and Manny Charach Endowment Fund, Irwin and Sadie

Cohn Endowment for the Arts, DeRoy Testamentary Foundation, Boaz Siegel Culture

Fund, Benard L. Maas Foundation, Hiram Dorfman and David Engelberf, Trustees.

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working collaboratively to present
Ensler's play, and Albion, University of
Michigan and Michigan State
University theater groups also will stage
performances. Renowned actors will
mount productions in Los Angeles,
Atlanta, Toronto, Paris, Santa Fe and
Johannesburg, as well.
The UDM/OCC presentation,
directed by Yolanda Fleischer, features
professional actors Shirley Benyas,
Lavinia Moyer and Gillian Eaton, as
well as students from Fleischer's theater
company. Proceeds from the event will
benefit Alternatives for Girls, HAVEN
and Women Arise.
Says Fleischer, "My students and I
have been psyched to perform The
Vagina Monologues since 1997. It's a very
unique piece and it has given women a
voice. A few of my students are still
blushing, but there's so much humor in
the skits, we giggle in anticipation. 'The
Moan' really gets us giggling."
Fleischer points to Lenny Bruce as

a pioneer of using words in
new and different ways. "He
made certain words in the
language less sacrosanct. He
diffused the meaning.
"Guess what?" she adds.
"We can say this stuff
`Vagina practically rolls off
my tongue now."
The women in
Fleischer's production will
wear red outfits of their
own design, built out of
their wardrobes. And they
will carry a soft-sculpture
vagina, made by a local artist. "We'll
also have a "vagina chorus," says
Fleischer, a departure from the origi-
nal play.
A woman in the "vagina interview"
booth in the lobby of the theater will
pose questions to willing participants
and their responses will be incorporat-
ed into the show. This is in recogni-
tion of Ensler's inspiration for the
monologues, which are based on inter-
views with hundreds of women who
brazenly explored seldom asked ques-
tions about their vaginas.
In her book Woman: An Intimate
Geography, Natalie Angier writes, "The
vagina is both path and journey, tunnel
and traveler. You can make of it almost
anything you want, need or dread."
Asks Eve Ensler, "What are we say-
ing about our bodies if we can't say
`vacrina'?"
It has been written that the special
genius of The Vagina Monologues is
Ensler's ability to lead her audience to
lost, discarded and wounded parts of
themselves, and to make them shout,
weep and howl with laughter.
"Every day is Penis Day," she says.
Finally, a celebration of vagina,
Valentines and anti-violence.

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The Vagina Monologues will be presented by Oakland Community
College and University of Detroit Mercy 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, at
the Smith Theatre, Oakland Community College, Orchard Ridge
Campus, Farmington Hills. Tickets will be available at the door; $20/$10
for students with ID. Groups of 10 or more may purchase tickets in
advance by calling the Oakland University Womencenter at (248) 471-
7602 or the U-D Mercy Women's Study Program at (313) 993-6172. For
more information on V-Day 2000, including a complete list of colleges
where The Vagina Monologues will be performed, check out the Web site:
www.feminist.com/vday.
Other Michigan colleges performing The Vagina Monologues include:
Michigan State University — 1 and 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, at
Common Grounds Coffee House in Akers Hall; tickets are $5, available at
the door.
University of Michigan — 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, and 3 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 13, in Angell Hall, Auditorium B; and 8 p.m. Monday, Feb.
14, in the Pendleton Room at the Michigan Union; free, with a suggested
donation of $5, tickets available at the door.
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