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JAMD students perform `Little Shop of
Horrors' as the school's first spring musical.

DIANA LIEBERMAN

Staff Writer

Top: Seymour, played by Jason Garden, 15, of
West Bloomfield, is taken aback by his tiny
plant's ferocious teeth.

Above: Chorus member Elektra Petrucci, 15, of
Royal Oak, escorts Jon Guyer,14, of Huntington
Woods, who portrays Partick Martin.

arch out for those harmless-looking little green plants in
their cute ceramic pots.
Before you know it, any one of them could turn into a
rapacious monster, devouring man and beast alike.
That's the theme of Little Shop of Horrors, the spring musical to be
presented 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, March 26 and 27, by the
Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit. Tickets are S10 per person.
The show is not recommended for children.
The musical, which features 20 JAMD students, will be staged at
the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center's Handleman Hall at
Maple and Drake roads. Book and lyrics are by Howard Ashman,
with music by Alan Menken.
In addition to local talent, the school is importing a puppeteer from
Trenton to handle the voracious adult plant, said director Mitch
Master, who teaches at the JAMD and is a well-known local actor.
Master said he was "thrilled" to be working at the JAMD.
"I feel like a millionaire, because I love what I do for a living," he
said. "The kids here are so passionate, driven and caring."

Cast members of the JAMD's "Little Shop of Horrors."

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The Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit's Max M.
Fisher Jewish Community
Foundation will distribute more
than $150,000 in grants to 10
Jewish community social service,
cultural and educational programs.
The 10 programs are:
• Jewish Association for
Residential Care: $20,000 for Jewish
spiritual access for people with
development disabilities.
• Jewish Apartments and Services:
S12,000 for a prescription program
for seniors.
• Kadima Jewish Enrichment
Program: 520,500 to provide Jewish
culture and heritage opportunities to
Kadima clients, a Jewish mentally ill
population.
• Jewish Family Service: $20,750
for a program to facilitate home-
sharing arrangements for two unre-
lated people.
• Women's League for
Conservative Judaism Eilu v'Eilu:
523,000 for its adult Jewish educa-
tion program.
• Jewish Community Council:
58,150 to increase the Jewish com-
munity's involvement in the fight
against illiteracy through the Detroit
Jewish Coalition for Literacy.
• Fresh Air Society: 57,500 for
Horizons Avodah, a vocational pro-
gram for campers with special needs
who have graduated from the
Horizons program.
• Jewish Family Service and
Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy
Network: $24,000 for Project
Lifelinks, a case-managed, hospice
information, referral resource net-
work.
• Jewish Community Council:
$5,000 for the Southeast Michigan
Coalition on the Environment and
Jewish Life (SEMCOEJL), a project
that addresses the concerns and con-
nection between Judaism and the
environment.
• Congregation Beth Shalom:
512,700 for the Gathering Place, an
outreach program for new
Americans so they can get involved
in a congregation setting and Jewish
life.
• Letters of intent for the fall
cycle of grants are due Aug. 10,
2001; full proposals are due Sept.
21, 2001. Call Federation's Jordana
Weiss: (248) 203-1467.

