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York to work on a top-level project in Los
Alamos, N.M. in 1945. Show times are 8
Michigan Chamber Players, comprised of
p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays, 3 and 8 p.m.
faculty artists of the U-M School of Music,
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, through
including pianist Louis Nagel and violist
March 17. Tickets for the gala VIP open-
Yizhak Schotten, present a concert featuring
ing on Jan. 20 are $250. Regular tickets
music by Beethoven, Roussel, Britten and
are $17.50-$32.50. (734) 433-7673.
Tchaikovsky 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, at
St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild of Cranbrook
Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor.
mounts a production of Mary Chase's classic
Complimentary admission. (734) 764-2538.
tale about Elwood P. Dowd and his "imagi-
GAIL ZININIERMAN
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra pres-
nary" 6-foot rabbit friend, Harvey, 8 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment
Editor
ents Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony,
evenings with a 2 p.m. Sunday curtain, Jan.
thought by many critics to be his greatest
19-21, 25-27, at the guild playhouse in
masterpiece, 8 p.m. Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 2
Bloomfield Hills. For ticket information, call (248)
p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26-28. Piccolo player Jeffrey Zook
644-0527.
joins the symphony in Antonio Vivaldi's Piccolo
Buried Child, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-win-
Concerto in C major. $19-$67. (313) 576-5111.
ning play about the disintegration of the American
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma examines the Silk Road coun-
Dream, comes to Hamtramck's Planet Ant Theatre 8
tries from easternmost Asia to Europe, using music
p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays
to draw people from diverse cultures together, in an
through Feb. 11. $10. For reservations, call (313)
8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, concert at Macomb Center
365-4948.
for the Performing Arts. $60-$75. (810) 286-2222.
Relive the heyday of the swing era with a big band
musical revue when the national tour of Forever
Swing hits Detroit's Music Hall Center for the

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Jazz and blues singer Barbara Morrison, whose

2 1 /2 octave range has graced stages around the world,

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appears in concert 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
Jan. 19-20, at Detroit's Gem Theatre. $35-$65.
(313) 963-9800.
Blues legend B.B. King brings his music to
Detroit's Fox Theatre 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20,
where he'll be joined by Bobby "Blue" Bland and
the Manhattans. $30-$75. (313) 983-6611.
Sons of the Never Wrong are Chicago's answer to
Peter, Paul and Mary. The group performs its three-
part harmony on top of witty, whimsical original
songs 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, at The Ark in Ann
Arbor. $11. (734) 761-1451.
Pianist Jim Brickman, a staple of adult-contempo-
rary music, entertains in a concert of pop, country
and smooth jazz tunes 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25,
at Macomb Center for the Performing Arts. $23-
$29. (810) 286-2222.

ON THE STAGE

Grosse Pointe Theatre presents Alan Ayckbourne's
comedy thriller Communicating Doors 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Feb.
3 at Grosse Pointe War Memorial's Fries Auditorium.
For ticket information, call (313) 881-4004.
The Purple Rose Theatre Company stages the
world premiere of a new play by Lanford Wilson as
the first production in its newly renovated facility in
Chelsea. Rain Dance centers around a young
American scientist (Matt Letscher), who leaves New

coaches, refreshments, music, games, sledding, rides
and more, 12:30-3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, just west
of the Community Center on Oak Park Boulevard.
All activities are free. (248) 691-7555.
Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster and their Sesame
Street friends present 24 performances of a new
Sesame Street Live musical, Big Bird's Sunny Day
Camp Out, Jan. 24-Feb. 4 at Detroit's Fox Theatre.
Call for show times. $10-$18. (248) 433-1515.
Rochester's Meadow Brook Art Gallery hosts
Punch's Progress: A Century of American Puppetry
From the Detroit Institute of Arts, a family exhibi-
tion that traces the changing face of puppetry from
1850-1950, through Feb. 25. Admission is free. Call
for hours: (248) 370-3005.

THE ART SCENE

Sholem Aleichem Institute hosts artist and art his-
torian Hope Palmer, who will lecture on
Contemporary Jewish Artists 2:30 p.m. Sunday,
Jan. 21, at the National Council of Jewish Women
offices, 26400 Lahser Road (Homestead Building,
corner of Northwestern), in Southfield. Admission i
free. (248) 352-6852.
Birmingham's Hill Gallery presents
American Folk Art: 19th and 20th
Centuries, featuring weather vanes,
whirligigs, hooked rugs, folk furniture and
paintings, through Feb. 7. (248) 540-9288
Detroit's Center Galleries presents
Activating Space, a multidisciplinary col-
laborative project between Center for
Creative Studies art and design students,
led by CCS faculty members Robert
Rabinovitz and Joseph Wesner, through
Feb. 17. Opening reception: 6-8 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 19. (313) 664-7800.

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The 24-hour-a-day Plymouth
The musical revue
Performing Arts Jan. 23-28. Show times
International
Ice Sculpture Spectacular,
"Forever Swing"
are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m.
the
oldest
and
largest ice carving event in
visits Music Hall
Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7
North America, runs through Jan. 21 in
Center for the
p.m. Sunday. Featuring a live stage orches-
Performing Arts. Kellogg Park, downtown Plymouth.
tra, swing kids and singers, the show fol-
Admission is free. (734) 459-9157.
lows the fictitious traveling Tommy
U-M grad and author Brad Meltzer dis-
Vickers Band as it performs tunes like
cusses and signs copies of his latest novel, First
"Begin the Beguine," "In the Mood," and "It Don't
Counsel, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Borders Books
Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing." $20-$45.
and Music on Woodward in downtown
(313) 983-6611.
Birmingham. (248) 203-0005.

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The Oak Park Recreation Department sponsors
Winterfest, a family event featuring horse-drawn

The Scarab Club hosts its second annual Robert
Burns Night Dinner to commemorate the birthday
of the Scottish bard, 6-10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25.
$30. For information and reservations, call (313)
831-1250.

FYI: For Arts and Entertainment related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number,
to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 354-6069; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks before
the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.

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