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ON THE STAGE
The University of Michigan's Musical
Twenty-eight-year-old Canadian bass-bari-
Theatre Department presents the Bill
tone John Relyea is an operatic superstar in
Russell/Henry Krieger musical Side Show,
the making. He performs 8 p.m. Saturday,
the story of conjoined twins searching for
April 14, accompanied by Warren Jones on
love and fame, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday
piano, at Ann Arbor's Lydia Mendelssohn
and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13-15, at Ann
Theatre. $30-$40. (734) 764-2538.
Arbor's Power Center. $15-$20/$7 stu-
Flutist Abha (originally from
dents. (734) 764-0450.
Farmington Hills) and guitarist Steven
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Arts 6- Entertainment
The longest running one-man solo play
(from Windsor) Dearing comprise the
Editor
in Broadway history, Rob Becker's
Dearing Concert Duo. The couple, whose
Defending the Caveman, a show explor-
music frequently is heard on CBC radio
ing the gender gap, returns to Detroit's Fisher
(89.9), take the stage in a Vivace Series concert 8
Theatre 8 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays; 2, 5 and 8 p.m.
p.m. Saturday, April 21, at the Birmingham Temple
Saturdays; and 3 and 7 p.m. Sundays, April 18-29.
in Farmington Hills. $15 members/$18 nonmem-
$35-545. (313) 872-1000 or (248) 645-6666.
bers/$12 students. (248) 788-9338.
A new musical version of Gaston Leroux's classic
story set beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera,
Phantom, from Tony Award-winners Arthur Kopit
and
Maury Yeston (Titanic, Nine), reveals a more
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts singer/songwriter
human
and sympathetic look into the man behind
Livingston Taylor (brother of James) 8 p.m. Saturday,
the
mask.
It will be per-
Ann
Rabson
and
April 14, and music makin' mama
formed 7:30 p.m.
Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women, who'll perform
Pop/RocKIJAzz
classic boogie-woogie tunes,
8 p.m. Friday, April 20. $15.
(734) 761-1800.
Pop band Guster returns
to the Detroit area Thursday,
April 19, for a performance
at Clutch Cargo's in Pontiac.
Doors at 8 p.m. $16. (248)
333-2362.
The Detroit Symphony
Pops brings the music and
culture of Italy, from
Puccini to Mancini, to
Orchestra Hall with That's
"Schindler's List"
Amore 8 p.m. Thursday
will air on PBS.
and Friday, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday and 3 p.m.
Sunday, April 19-22. Jeff Tyzik conducts and
tenor Tono di Paolo makes his DSO debut in
concerts featuring both classical hits and popular
songs. $15-$70. (313) 576-5111.
Avant garde jazz guitarist Eugene Chadbourne
joins guitarist/ keyboardist Frank Pahl, drummer
Doug Gourlay, saxophonist Tim Holmes and
bassist Joel Peterson for a Jazz at the Edge con-
cert 8 p.m. Friday, April 20, at Ann Arbor's
Kerrytown Concert House. $10-$25.
Reservations: (734) 769-2999.
Richard Nader's Original Doo Wop Reunion
Tour brings the Platters, the Drifters, the Shirelles
and others back to Motown for a concert of the
doo wop era's favorite songs 8 p.m. Friday, April
20, at the Fox Theatre. 530-$50. (248) 433-1515.
her fortune, plays at Wayne State University's
Bonstelle Theatre 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2
p.m. Sundays, April 20-29. $10-$13; buy a $13 ticket
and bring your boyfriend free. (313) 577-2960.
Tony Award-winning Art, a comedy about modern
art and friendship by French Jewish playwright Yasmina
Reza, takes the stage at Ann Arbor's Performance
Network 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays, April 20-May 20. $14-$20. (734) 663-0681.
THE SMALL SCREEN
The Sundance Channel observes Yom Hashoah
with the screening of Raw Images From the Optic
Cross 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18. Filmmaker Karl
Nussbaum, the son of a Holocaust survivor, attempts
to see hope in life when surrounded by horror and
despair. Check local listings for additional screenings.
In recognition of Holocaust Remembrance Day
WTVS-Channel 56 airs Steven Spielberg's Schindler's
List 8 p.m.
Thursday, April
19. The film
repeats 9 p.m.
Saturday, April
21. The PBS
commercial-free
broadcast is dedi-
cated to Leopold
Page - No. 173
on Schindler's list
Above: The Jewish members of
-
who died
Adan? Gardner; Brian
Guster
recently
at age 87.
Rosenworcel and. Ryan Miller -
Two
intermissions
play Clutch Cargo's on April 19.
will feature
Left: The Dearing Concert Duo
resources for
per form at the Birmingham
Holocaust history.
Temple April 21.
Check your local
listings.
DANCE FEVER
The Oak Park Jewish
Community Center hosts a
performance of Ezekiel
Solomon - English Fur
Trader 2:30 p.m. Sunday,
April 22. Presented by the
Madame Cadillac Dance
Theatre, it features Michael
Burden as Solomon, one of
the first Jewish settlers in
Michigan, and artistic
director Harriet Berg. The
public is invited at no
charge. (248) 967-4030.
Thursday;
8 p.m. Friday; 2 and
8 p.m. Saturday; and
3 and 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 19-22,
at Macomb Center
for the Performing
Arts. $31-$35.
(810) 585-3737.
Sandy Wilson's
musical comedy The
Boyfriend, about a
1920s poor little rich
girl searchinc, for a
boyfriend to b love her
for herself and not
THE ART SCENE
Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye, a traveling
exhibition featuring 40 large-scale black and white
photographs by the Cuban-American photographer,
visits the Detroit Institute of Arts through July 22.
Morell will present a slide lecture 8 p.m. Thursday,
April 19, in the Lecture Hall of the DIA. Free with
museum admission. (313) 833-7900.
Pewabic Pottery presents Excess, a group exhibition
of elaborately decorated and ornate ceramic art, includ-
ing work by Susan Beiner, April 20-June 2. Opening
reception: 6-8 p.m. Friday, April 20. (313) 822-0954.
The Sugarloaf Art Fair, featuring 350 artisans,
returns to the Novi Expo Center 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Friday-Sunday, April 20-22. S6/children under 12 free.
For more information, go to www.sugarloafcrafts.com .
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