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MUSICAL NOTES
Kissed a Girl" at the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD)
media awards, visits Detroit's Magic Stick
Wednesday, Nov. 29. Doors at 6:30 p.m.
$12 advance/$15 day of. (313) 833-9700.
Karla Bonoff is a songwriter from
Southern California who first came to
light in the mid-'70s, when Linda
Ronstadt took note and recorded her song
"Someone to Lay Down Beside Me."
ON THE STAGE
Bonoff also wrote "All My Life," the song
sung by Ronstadt and Aaron Neville that
Wayne State University's Bonstelle
won the Grammy for Best Vocal
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Theatre presents The Miracle Worker,
Arts & Entertainment
Performance by a Duo or Group in 1990.
playwright William Gibson's telling of
Editor
Her other hits include "I Can't Hold
teacher Annie Sullivan's true-to-life struggle
On," "Tell Me Why," "Personally" and
to rescue the blind and deaf
"Home," songs recorded by other artists that Bonoff
Helen Keller from her solitary existence,
finally put on disc herself with the career retrospec-
Dec. 1-10. The play, directed by WSU
tive All My Lift: The Best of Karla Bonoff
theater professor Lavinia
(Columbia/Legacy Records).
Moyer, is suitable for chil-
Bonoff's great-grandfather David Borodanoff emi-
dren ages 8 and up.
grated from Russia to California in the late 19th.
Performances are
century. Somewhere between his arrival and her
scheduled 8 p.m.
physician father Karl's shortening his name to
Friday and Saturday
Bonoff, assimilation took its toll on Karla's Jewish
evenings and 2 p.m.
education. She didn't attend her first seder until she
Sunday afternoons.
was 25, she told the
Jewish News.
Still, a Jewish spark
seems to light many
of her songs, especial-
ly "Daddy's Little
Girl," a personal trib-
ute to her father and
the consequences of
coming to grips with
his mortality.
Karla Bonoff per-
form 8 p.m. Friday,
Dec. 1, at the Ark in
Ann Arbor. Tickets
are $17. (734) 761-
1451.
Above: The Bonstelle production
Several other Jewish singer/songwrit-
of "The Miracle Worker" features
ers also come to town this week.
Jamie A. White as Annie Sullivan and
Former member of Veruca Salt Nina
Tiffany Bedzvell as Helen Keller
Gordon has released her first solo CD,
Tonight and the Rest of My Life, and
Right: Karla Bonoff plays
brings a new harder guitar sound to The
The Ark Dec. I.
Shelter in Detroit on Sunday, NOV. 26.
Doors at 6 p.m. $15. (313) 961-6358.
Singer/songwriter/pianist/guitarist Warren
Tickets are $8-$10 and discounts are available for
Zevon, the son of Russian immigrants, brings his
groups of 15 or more. (313) 577-2960.
often edgy, satirical work to Ferndale's Magic Bag
The interactive comedy Tony N' Tina's Wedding
Nov. 27, after a recent stint filling in for band-
opens Friday, Nov. 24, at Harmonie Club, located in
leader Paul Shaffer on The Late Show with David
Detroit's Harmonie Park. The beautifully restored,
Letterman. Doors at 8 p.m.; $23 advance tickets.
historic building features a separate chapel for the
(248) 544-3030.
ceremony, an expansive dance floor, seating for more
Finally, folkie Jill Sobule, who received the
than 200 guests and a cash bar. The Italian dinner
Outstanding Song Award for the self-revealing "I
will be catered by Intermezzo. Show times are 7:30
p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 4:30 and 9 p.m.
Saturdays and 4:30 p.m. Sundays. Thursday and
Sunday shows are $55; Friday and Saturday shows
are $60. Discounts are available for groups of 20 or
more. (313) 961-5211.
THE BIG SCREEN
The Redford Theatre will screen the Frank Capra
classic It's a Wonderful Life in its original black and
white 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 1-2, pre-
ceded by an organ overture at 7. The evening will be
filled with Capra-like surprises, including an appear-
ance by Karolyn "Zuzu" Grimes, who played the
youngest child of Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed
in the film. $10. (313) 537-2560.
THE ART SCENE
The Janice Charach Epstein Gallery in the
West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center
holds a reception 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
30, in honor of the artists participating in the
exhibit Tradition With a Twist: Contemporary
Fiber Arts, which runs through Jan.
31. See next week's Jewish News for a
Beaded dreidel
feature article. (248) 661-7641.
by Linda
Billing itself as "the largest pottery
Girard, at the
sale in the country," the 25th annual
Birmingham
Potters Market, featuring the
Bloomfield
advanced ceramic students and guest
Art Center.
potters of Oakland Community
College Royal Oak campus, returns
this year Dec. 1-3. Hours are 10
a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday,
at the United Food and Commercial
Union Hall at 876 Horace Brown
Drive near 13 Mile Road in Madison
Heights. The sale features 130 pot-
ters offering nearly 40,000 pieces of
pottery, ranging from pots, vases,
platters, tiles and mugs to bird baths,
jewelry and more. All items are con-
stantly restocked. Admission is free.
For more information, call (248)
246-2686.
The Holiday Shop and Fiber Art
Sale, running Dec. 1-9 at the Birmingham
Bloomfield Art Center, opens with a special preview
5-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, with additional hours 10
a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Friday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. The show
features the work of more than 150 local and
national artists, including the beaded dreidels of
Linda Girard of Clawson and amulet bag necldaces
by Natalie Cohen of Walled Lake. For more infor-
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