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Pops conductor Charles Greenwell and the
Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra
present The Ballet Goes Pops 7,p.m. Sunday, Feb.
4, at Temple Beth El. The program includes
excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, symphonic
dances from Bernstein's West Side Story and
Copland's Billy the Kid. $20/students free when
accompanied by an adult. (248) 645-2276.
Accompanied by pianist Gilbert Kalish, opera star
Dawn Upshaw, also renowned as a proponent of new
music, performs songs from her upcoming CD 3 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 4, at the Wharton Center for Performing
Arts in East Lansing. $22-$36. (517) 432-2000.
Singled out around the world for its technical
brilliance, the Brentano String Quartet performs
8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, in a Chamber Music
Society of Detroit concert
at Seligman Performing
Arts Center on the campus
of Detroit Country Day
School in Beverly Hills.
$15-$67; (248) 645-6666.
At 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4,
the quartet performs a sec-
ond concert at Ann Arbor's
Rackham Auditorium. $14-
$30; (734) 764-2538.
Crazy and other shows, 3 and 7 p.m.
and 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 1, 4 and 7
Sunday, Feb. 4. $31-$35. (810) 286-
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9-11, at the Detroit
2222.
Film Theatre. (313) 833-3237.
The Theatre Company stages Keith
Reddin's Brutality of Fact, a painfully
funny comedy about a terminally dys-
THE SMALL SCREEN
functional family, 8 p.m. Thursdays
PBS's Nova presents Nazi Prison Escape,
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Feb. 8-25,
a documentary about what really hap-
at the McCauley Auditorium on the
pened at Colditz Castle, Germany's ulti-
Outer Drive Campus of the University of
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
mate escape-proof prison for the Nazis'
Detroit-Mercy $10-$12. (313) 993-1130.
Arts L Entertainment
most troublesome Allied prisoners, 9 p.m.
Oakland University's Department of
Editor
Tuesday, Feb. 6. Check your local listings.
Music, Theatre and Dance stages Eric
Bogosian's SubUrbia, an examination of life's mean-
FAMILY FuN
ing by a group of young people who feel alienated,
Feb. 8-18. Call for show times. $5-$10.
In conjunction with Detroit's 300th birthday,
Reservations: (248) 370-3013.
Youtheatre presents Michigan jazz master Harold
Host of WDET's Backstage Pass, Ann Delisi joins
McKinney and his troupe of musicians, dancers
and singers, who will create a living history of
the cast of The Vagina
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Monologues through Feb. 4,-
jazz, sprinkled with notes on Detroit's illustrious
jazz history, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and 2
and community activist
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3-4, at Southfield's
Mary Lou Zieve will perform
Millennium Theatre; $8 advance/$10 at the door.
Feb. 6-11, at the Second City
(248) 557-7529.
Theatre. Call for show times.
$45. (313) 965-2222.
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Chicago's renowned
Hubbard Street Dance
Company combines theatri-
cal jazz, modern and classi-
cal ballet in its repertoire
representing world-class and
emerging choreographers.
The troupe performs 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9-
10, at Ann Arbor's Power
Center. $18-$38. (734) 764-
2538.
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To make up for appearances
cut short by illness and missed
due to a snowstorm, Detroit's
own Marshall Crenshaw takes
the stage at Ferndale's Magic
Bag 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4.
$5. (248) 544-3030.
Master jazzman Marcus
Belgrave and his band pres-
ent 100 Years of Satchmo,
the story of the great musical
innovator Louis "Satchmo"
Armstrong, Saturdays and
Sundays during the month of
February at 12:30, 2 and
3:30 p.m. at Henry Ford
Museum. Free with museum
admission. (313) 271-1620.
ON THE STAGE
Macomb Center for the
Performing Arts performs
Crazy for You, including hits
from George Gershwin's Girl
FYI:
DANCE FEVER
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THE BIG
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Top: The Brentano String Quartet, with,
clockwise from left, violinist Serena Canin,
cellist Nina Maria Lee, violist Misha
Amory and violinist Mark Steinberg,.
perform two concerts this weekend
Above: Marcus Belgrave brings the story
of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong to Henry
Ford Museum.
Twenty-five-year-old
David Gordon Green's
directorial debut, George
Washington, in which a
group of kids wrestle with
universal issues of belong-
ing, first love and spiritual
restlessness, has been hailed
as one of the most auda-
cious American movies in
years. It will be screened 7
and 9:30 p.m. Friday; 4, 7
THE ART SCENE
The Detroit Society of Women Painters and
Sculptors exhibit their works at the Oakland
County Galleria in Pontiac. Feb. 2-March 16.
Opening reception: 6-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2. (248)
858-0415.
The Southfield Centre for the Arts hosts the pho-
tography show World Religions in Metropolitan
Detroit through Feb. 28. Part of the Pluralism
Project at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, it
reflects a wide array of traditions, including Judaism.
(248) 424 9022.
"Everyone - men, women and children of every
culture - can relate to this exhibition," says
President and CEO of the Charles H. Wright
Museum of African American History Christy S.
Coleman of Hair in African Art and Culture.
"That's because what we do with our hair makes a
definite statement about what we think of ourselves
and what we want others to think about us." The
exhibit opens Feb. 8 and runs through April 15.
(313) 494-5800.
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The Harlem Globetrotters, founded by Abe
Saperstein, a 24-year-old immigrant from London,
in . 1926, when black players were not allowed to
play in professional basketball leagues, bring their
75th anniversary world tour to the Palace of
Auburn Hills 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4. $10-$20.
(248) 645-666.
to: Gail For
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