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Youthearre presents the children's musical Are
You My Mother?, adapted from the P.S. Eastman
classic about a baby bird's journey to find its moth-
er, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, April 7, at
Southfield's Millennium Center. S10/available at
the door. (248) 557-7529.
Based on the comic strip
Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz,
Snoopy - The Musical,
designed especially for young
children, features music by Larry
Grossman with lyrics by Hal
Hackady. It comes to Macomb
Center for the Performing Arts 3
and 7 p.m. Friday (90-minute
performance) and 10 a.m., 1
and 3:30 p.m. Saturday (60-
minute performance), April 13-
14. $8-S10. (810) 286-2222.

Michigan Dance Challenge and the
Four-time Grammy winners (one for
Global
Spectrum Network present ball-
Best Classical Recording and three for Best
room
dancing
in A Battle of World
Chamber Music Performance) the
Champions
-
Canada's
Alain Doucet
Emerson String Quartet perform works by
and
Anik
Jolicoeur
vs.
USA's
Haydn, Ligeti, Kurtag and Bartok 8 p.m.
Gary McDonald and Diana
Friday, April 6, in a University Musical
McDonald - Saturday,
Society concert at Ann Arbor's Rackham
April
14, at the Hyatt
Auditorium. 520-536. (734) 764-2538.
GAIL ZIMM ERMAN
Regency
in Dearborn. Doors
German chanteuse lite Lemper is
Arts & Entei lainment
open
at
7
p.m. The evening
Edit or
known for performing Berlin cabaret songs
also
will
feature
amateur,
from the Weimar era, portraying a cast of
pro-am
and
professional
characters from a time when decadence
competition. 525/dinner available;
and sophistication fell under the shadow of Nazism
dancing and competition Friday, April
and impending war. Well known for her interpreta-
13/510. For tables and individual tick-
tions of Jewish composer Kurt Weill's music, she'll
ets,
call (248) 399-4651.
perform his works, cabaret standards and selections
8
p.m.
Friday,
Punishing
Kiss,
from her new CD,
April 13, in a UMS concert at Ann Arbor's Michigan
THE BIG SCREEN
Theatre. 516-536. (734) 764-2538.
Fans of French film will enjoy a dou-
ble treat as the Detroit Film Theatre
presents The Widow of St. Pierre
(France/Canada - 2000 - Patrice
Accompanying his country blues vocals on
Leconte), starring Juliette Binoche and
acoustic guitar, Kelly Joe Phelps appears at The
Daniel Auteuil in a tale set in 1849
Ark in Ann Arbor 8 p.m. Friday, April 6. 513.50.
Newfoundland in which a man sen-
(734) 761-1451.
tenced to die by the guillotine causes
Singer/songwriter Duncan Sheik - who often
the residents of his small community to
performed with Jewish classmate Lisa Loeb when
re-evaluate their desire to carry our the
they both were students at Brown University -
1986
deed; and Bad Blood (France
plays Ferndale's Magic Bag 8 p.m. Friday, April
-
Leos
Carax),
set
in
futuristic
Paris,
13. $15. (248) 544-3030.
in which a young street punk (Denise
Lavant) schemes to steal the only
known serum effective against a deadly
ON THE STAGE
new disease transmittable by a mere
Wayne State University's Hilberry Theatre opens
caress. The Widow of St. Pierre screens
The Rover, in which a swashbuckling cavalier
7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday; 4, 7 and 9:30
known for his romantic exploits is caught in a
p.m. Saturday; and 1, 4 and 7 p.m.
duel of wits with a daring maiden, 8 p.m. Friday,
Sunday, April 13-15; Bad Blood will be
April 13. The Restoration comedy, written by
shown 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 16. 56
Aphra Behn, considered England's first female
per screening. (313) 833-3237.
professional playwright, is a bawdy and boisterous
battle of the sexes, and runs in repertory through
May 19. Call for show times. S11-518. (313)
FAMILY
577-2972.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's
The Zeitgeist Theatre and RAT Productions
Tiny
Tots Series, geared ro children ages
stages David's Redhaired Death, by Sherry
Top to bottom.
3-6,
presents
Amazing Musical Tales
Kramer, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through
- featuring the Atlantis Expedition
Duncan Sheik visits
April 21, with one closing matinee 4 p.m. Sunday,
Puppets who'll bring to life the stories
the Magic Bag.
April 22. The two-act drama pits two fiery red-
in Kabelevsky's The Comedians Suite
headed women caught in a world of passion, iden-
Howdy Doody
and Weinberger's Schwanda the
tity struggles and personal loss, and reunites local
makes his DIA debut.
1 1 a.m. Saturda) April 7,
Bagpiper
actors Leah Smith and Lessa Bouchard, co-
at Seligman Performing Arts Center at
Ute Lemper performs the
founders of Detroit's original feminist theater col-
Detroit
Country
Day
School
in
Beverly
music
ofJewish composer Kurt
lective, POW. 510. Reservations: (313) 965-9192.
Weill, pictured, in Ann Arbor.
Hills. 511. (313) 576-5111.

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THE ART SCENE

Detroit's Scarab Club hosts
Sampler: A CCS Alumni
Exhibition, representing 50
artists over four decades, through
April 27. (313) 831-1250.
Royal Oak's Arnold Klein
Gallery presents recent works by
mixed-media artist Robert
Edwards April 6-May 10.
Opening reception: 5-8 p.m.
Friday, April 6. (248) 647-7709.
Its Howdy Doody time at the
Detroit Institute of Arts, as the
beloved puppet makes his DIA
debut 6-9 p.m. Friday, April 6,
during Hudson's First Fridays at
the DIA. (313) 833-7900.
Save the date: Pierre
Rosenberg, recently retired direc-
tor of the Musee du Louvre in
Paris, France, presents a special
Bastille Day lecture on July 14 as
part of the Coleman Mopper
Memorial Lecture Series at the -
Detroit Institute of Arts.

WHATNOT

The Michigan Library
Association is seeking nomina-
tions for the 10th annual
Michigan Author Award. For
more information, go to the
Web site at
hrup://www.mla.lib.mi.us .

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2001

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