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CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK & THE CANTORS ASSEMBLY

present

The Peter & Clara Weisberg Concert

A Musical Extravaganza

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VOICE AKIVA

in celebration of Lag Baomer

Monday, May 22, 2000 — 8:00 p.m.

Congregation Shaarey Zedek — Southfield

Presenting nationally acclaimed Cantors and Kol Zimrah,
the Jewish Community Singers of Chicago directed by Cantor Richard Cohn
Performed in conjunction with the
53rd Annual Convention of the Cantors Assembly
ADMISSION IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

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liant lawyer with a pure
heart, has turned cynical
and jaded after losing
many cases to O'Brien.
With his office in chaos
and in danger of losing his
practice, he takes on a case
that could save his soul.
"People may perceive
that there's still some hope
for him by the time the
play ends," Lax says. "But
I think that a lot of peo-
ple's sense about the way
lawyers behave is that
there's less idealism."
Actually, there are three
lawyers in the play, and
they approach the case
with very different view-
points. The characters were
planned to have the traits
of a number of lawyers.
"I think it's pretty clear
from the script that
Mark Rademacher, who last portrayed the Jewish
[Rubensfire] is Jewish,"
doctor in JET's production of "Broken Glass," now
Lax says. "That's what we
takes on the role of Jewish lawyer Geoff Rubenfire in
both are, and that's what's
Performance Network's "... and Associates." Carla
most familiar."
Milarch, left, plays his idealistic young assistant, Pat.
Lax, a specialist in
municipal and zoning law,
who definitely remembers that it took
grew up in Detroit and Oak
two years to write the script. "Jerry
Park, where he graduated from high
thinks he wrote the funny line, and I
school. He and Stein went to the
think I wrote it."
University of Michigan and were fra-
The new playwrights, already antic-
ternity brothers, but Lax studied law
ipating a piece related to growing up
at Harvard while Stein stayed at
in Detroit, are gaining insights into
Michigan.
their comedy as they watch the way
Lax's first job out of college was
director James Posante is bringing it to
clerking for a judge, and he went on
the stage at rehearsals.
to work for a law firm, becoming Ann
"We're very grateful to Performance
Arbor city attorney and joining anoth-
Network for producing our play," Lax
er law firm while teaching at the uni-
says. "They put it in their Festival of
versity. His wife, Judie, is endowment
New Plays a couple of months ago,
director for the Washtenaw Jewish
and after it had one staged reading,
Federation, and his sons, a lawyer and
they asked if they could produce it as
a chef, live out of state.
part of their regular season. Our first
Active in Adat Shalom Synagogue
goal is that people attend and enjoy
while growing up, he now belongs to
this production. I'd like to see it per-
Ann Arborl Temple Beth Emeth,
formed elsewhere if people do enjoy it.
where he is on the board.
"We'd certainly like to write more
Stein, who grew up in Detroit,
things, but for the moment, we're
graduated from Mumford High
wrapped up in the process of learning
School and was a member of Temple
about production."
Israel. A personal injury specialist, he
practiced in Detroit for four years
before joining an Ann Arbor law firm
... and .Associates will be performed
and becoming part of the U-M law
at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays
faculty.
and 2 p.m. Sundays, April 28-
Stein and his wife, Pat McCune,
May 21, at Performance
president of Temple Beth Emeth, have
Network, 408 W. Washington,
three children. Their daughter soon
Ann
Arbor. $18 Fridays and
will make them grandparents. Their
Saturdays/$15
Thursdays and
oldest son is a chef, and their youngest
Sundays/$3
discount
for seniors.
just had his bar mitzvah.
(734)
663-0681.
"When a line gets a good laugh, we
have a selective memory," says Stein,

