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ACTORS AWARDS
Need help with your Oscar predic-
tions in the acting categories?.In the
history of the Screen Actor Guild
(SAG) Awards, nine out of the 10
recipients of The Actor for
Outstanding Leading Performance in a
Motion Picture subsequently have been
honored with an Academy Award.
This year's SAG Awards, which will
be presented on Sunday, honor out-
standing performances from 1999 in
five film categories and eight television
categories. The unique ensemble
awards honor the performance by a
cast in a motion picture, as well as in
comedy and dramatic television series
— recognizing what all actors know,
that acting is a collaborative art.
Nominated for Outstanding
Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical
Motion Picture this year are Being
John Malkovich, Magnolia, American
Beauty, The Cider House Rules and The
Green Mile (the latter three all Oscar-
nominated for Best Picture).
Last year's recipient of SAG's Life
Achievement Award was Kirk
Douglas. This year's honoree is screen
great Sidney Pokier.
The 6th Annual Screen Actors Guild
Awards will be broadcast 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 12, on TNT.
TEVYEIS TALE
Based on Sholem Aleichem's stories,
with book by Joseph Stein, music by
Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon
Harnick, Fiddler on the Roof remains a
perennial favorite .of theater fans of all
ages. The musical will be mounted —
with a cast of 80 — March 10-19 by
the Novi Theatres on the Novi Civic
Center Stage, located at 45175 W. 10
Mile Road.
Taking the role of Golde is
Farmington Hills resident Jan Jacobs,
who as one of the few Jewish cast mem-
bers, has been called upon to explain
some of the Yiddish words and actions
to fellow actors. She's relied on stories
that her parents, Bert and Muriel Jacobs,
have told her about her grandparents'
experiences living in and leaving Russia.
Jacobs recently performed in Yiddle with .
a Fiddle at Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
playwrights, David Harris,
Another Jewish cast
Sima Rabinowitz and
member is Novi resident
Michael Robins, will pro-
Dr. David Shindler, who
vide a behind-the-scenes
plays Nachum the beggar;
look at the theater piece's
his daughter performs in
development 4 p.m.
the chorus. In all, seventeen
Sunday, March 12, at the
different sets of families are
Jewish Community Center
represented in this produc-
in West Bloomfield. They
tion, which is directed by
will describe the process,
Linda Wickert with set
GAIL. ZIMMERMAN
present improvisations by
design by Meadow Brook
Arts C Entertainment
local actors based on the
Theatre's Michael Powers.
Editor
characters and stage scenes
Show times are 7:30
from the play.
p.m. March 10, 12, 17
For more information, call the
and 18 and 3 p.m. March 11 and 19.
MJAC office, (248) 594-6522.
Tickets are $12; all seats are reserved.
(248) 347-0400.
SHOW & TELL
What does it mean to define oneself
as a lesbian or gay Jew? Through the
lives of eight characters ages 16-75, the
play From the Beginning I Did Not
Speak in Secret explores the search for
the intersections between observance
and belief and for an understanding of
the ways in which history, tradition and
family intersect with sexual identity.
Originally commissioned by the
Jewish Community Center of the
greater St. Paul area, From the
Beginning premiered last year, and will
be presented by the Michigan Jewish
Aids Coalition June 11-14.
As a preview, the production's three
Sidney _Niftier will receive a Life
Achievement Award at this year's
'Screen Actors Guild Awards,"
airing Sunday on TNT
BLACK BEAUTY
Ireland's premier folk singer, Mary
Black has been lauded for possessing
the warmest voice in Ireland. A pas-
sionate and intense vocalist with a
powerful rock singing style that also
encompasses elements of blues, jazz,
country and soul, she is a member of
Ireland's Black Family, who all have
musical backgrounds, and with whom
she has recorded and performed.
Black's early days were spent per-
forming in the folk clubs of Dublin.
She joined the renowned Irish band
De Dannan before leaving the group
for a solo career in 1986. In 1987 and
1988, she was voted Best Female
Artist in the Irish Rock Music Awards
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Poll. Black has frequently appeared
with Nanci Griffith in concert and
sung with Emmylou Harris.
Rooted deep in the lyrical tradition
of her homeland Ireland, Mary Black
will perform with her band 8 p.m.
Thursday, March 16, at Orchestra
Hall in a special program for St.
Patrick's Day. The program will
include material from her latest
recording, Song for Ireland.
Tickets are $15-$55. (313) 576-5111.
SLIPPERY RIDE
'Any new play by Arthur Miller is
an important event in American cul-
ture," wrote Time magazine in 1991.
"One as theatrically bold and intellec-
tually subtle as The Ride Down Mt.
Morgan is reason to shout for joy."
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan takes
place in the Reagan '80s, and like
Miller's other plays, explores themes
that are at once deeply personal and
entirely universal: the complexity of
relationships, the cause and effect of
our actions, the ways we deal with our
dreams, demons and disillusionments.
In this play, protagonist Lyman Felt
has it all: He's wealthy, successful,
respected and happily married — to
two different women. When Lyman's
latest act of imprudence sends his car
down an icy mountain road, and
brings his world of deception tum-
bling down around his hospital bed,
his world begins to fall apart.
Comical, romantic and suspenseful,
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is a wel-
come addition to a string of Miller plays
being staged this season in metro Detroit.
UD-Mercy produced Death of a Salesman
last fall; Meadow Brook just ended an
excellent production of All My Sons; and
JET is currently staging Broken Glass.
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, direct-
ed by Suzi Regan, opens in previews
Thursday, March 16, and runs 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays, March 17-April 16, at Ann
Arbor's Performance Network.
General admission tickets are $18
Fridays and Saturdays/$15
Thursdays and Sundays. There is a
$3 discount for students and seniors.
The preview performance is pay-what-
you-can. (734) 663-0681.
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