PIANO MAN

Highly acclaimed pianist Kazimierz Brzozowski
ushers in Birmingham Temple's Vivace Musical
Series for 2000-2001 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21.
The program will feature works by Chopin,
Mozart and Prokofiev.
The recipient of top honors in the prestigious
National Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland,
for three consecutive years, Brzozowski made his
New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 1993. He
currently is a faculty member at Oakland
Community College, Orchard Ridge Campus in
Farmington Hills.
Tickets for the evening, which includes an
afterglow with the artist, are $15 for seniors, stu-
dents and temple members/$18 for nonmembers.
For information and reservations, call (248)
788-9338 or (248) 288-3953.

NEW HOME

Youtheatre, the nonprofit arts organization that
originated as a program of the Detroit Institute of
Arts in 1964 and established itself as an inde-
pendent organization in 1991, has achieved a
national reputation in arts education and family
entertainment, serving as a primary cultural
resource for thousands of young people, families
and educators in the Detroit metropolitan area.
This fall, Youtheatre, which for the past nine

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The Birmingham-Bloomfield
Symphony Orchestra opens its season
7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, at Temple
Beth El with Bach to the Future, a
concert featuring works by Bach,
Beethoven and Brahms. Tickets, avail-
able at the door, are $20/free for stu-
dents with photo ID. (248) 645-2276.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
premieres a new work by Pulitzer Prize-
winning, Ann Arbor-based composer
William Bolcom, Concerto Grosso for
Four Saxophones, featuring the Prism
Saxophone Quartet, 10:45 and 8 p.m.
Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct.
20-21, at Orchestra Hall. Also on the
program are Copland's Appalachian
Spring and Tchaikovsky's Symphony
No.4. $15-$71. (313) 576-5111.
Elvis the Concert - Elvis perform-
ing on a video screen backed up by his
original band and singers live on stage

years has operated out of
Music Hall Center for the
Performing Arts, begins a new
chapter when it opens its
2000 2001 season in the
newly renovated Millennium
Center in Southfield. The
theatre is located at 15600
J.L. Hudson Drive, on the
campus of Providence
Hospital.

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GAIL ZIMMERMAN

Arts & Entertainment
Editor

Youtheatre will hold a grand-opening celebration
Sunday, Oct. 15, at the Millennium Center, fea-
turing two outdoor tents with storytelling, pup-
pets, clowns and a magic act; a family friendly
lunch; strolling entertainment; a main stage per-
formance by New York's the Gizmo Guys; and a
dessert reception.
Doors open at 12:30 p.m. with the mainstage
performance at 2:15. Admission is $20 per person;
tickets available at the door. For information, call
(248) 557-PLAY.

FUNNY GUY

Jeff Altman is one of the few comedians who consistently make David Letterman
laugh. Dave always ushers Altman, who's appeared on The Late Show about 40 times,
onto the set with the words, "He's nuts."
Altman, 41, takes the stage like a man fighting a losing battle against a multiple per-
sonality disorder, careening frantically from character to character, voice to voice, idea to
idea. He currently is in development with Letterman's production company, Worldwide
Pants, on its first foray into animation, creating a primetime series based on Altman's sig-
nature character, Carl.
One of the comedian's most famous routines revolves around his father. "My father
did it every Jewish father does it," says Altman. "As they get older, Jewish men start
hitching up their pants, until its all the way up and all you see is a belt and a head."
Flip You Like a Cheese
With two Showtime specials, a CD
Jeff Airman
and
numerous
guest
and
starring
roles in sitcoms under his
Omelette)
appears at the
belt, Altman takes the stage at Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle in Royal
Comedy Castle
Oak 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13-14. $15/no
this weekend.
coupons. (248) 542-9900.

with an orchestra - comes to the Fox
Theatre for two performances, 5 and 9
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14. $35/$27.50.
(313) 983-6611.
Classical and pop vocalist Sarah
Brightman brings her "La Luna World
Tour" to the Palace of Auburn Hills 8
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14. $50/$35.
(248) 645-6666.
The Buena Vista Social Club's Omara
Portuondo, with special guest Barbarito
Torres, takes the stage 8 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 14, at Hill Auditorium in Ann
Arbor. $14-$34. (734) 764-2538.
Canada's Great Big Sea mixes the tra-
ditions of their seafaring ancestors with
the energy of modern rock in a musical
performance 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14,
at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater. $15-
$25. (248) 645-6666.
Legendary jazz vocal artists Jon
Hendricks and Annie Ross, two-thirds
of the trailblazing Lambert, Hendricks
& Ross trio that pioneered "vocalese,"

the art of writing lyrics for instrumen-
tal solos, open the Ameritech Paradise
Jazz Series at Orchestra Hall. They'll
sing the songs they made famous 8
p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19. $16-$62.
(313) 576-5111.
Folk singer Tom Paxton appears 7:30
p.m. Friday, Oct. 20, at The Ark in
Ann Arbor. $15. (734) 761-1451.
The Village Players of Birmingham
present a concert version of Rodgers
and Hammerstein's rarely performed
1947 musical Allegro, directed by Jay
Kaplan, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, at
Players Theatre, 752 Chestnut (off
Woodward and Hunter). Free, with
donations accepted. (248) 569-5973.
St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild of
Cranbrook presents the musical
Nunsense 8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Oct.
20-29. $12-$15. (248) 644-0527.
The Hilberry Theatre production of
Shakespeare's As You Like It premieres

8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 20-21, and runs in
repertory through Dec. 16. $14-$18.
(313) 577-2972.
Join former. Detroiter Dan Robbins,
author of the book Whatever
Happened to Paint By Numbers, as he
gives an in-depth lecture on his inven-
tion, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at
the Detroit Historical Museum. Free
with admission. (313) 833-1262.
The "World Famous" Lipizzaner
Stallions ride in to the Palace of
Auburn Hills for a stop on their 30th
anniversary tour 2:30 p.m. Sunday,
Oct. 15. $19.50/$16.50. (248) 645-
6666.
International Institute's Original
World Market Festival of the World
runs 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, noon-8
p.m. Saturday and noon-6 p.m.
Sunday, at the Southfield Civic
Center. $3 adults/$2 children and sen-
iors. (313) 871-8600.

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