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out/standing room only. Doors at 8 p.m.
$30. (248) 544-3030.
Combining elements of pop, folk and
jazz, songstress Jonatha Brooke takes the
stage at Detroit's St. Andrew's Hall Friday,
April 27. Doors at 6:30 p.m. $20
advance/$23 day of. (313) 961-6358.

in the Community Arts Auditorium at Wayne State
University. $12-$15. (313) 965-3544.

Michigan Opera Theatre presents six per-
formances of Verdi's La Traviata, directed by
LAUGH LINES
Harry Silverstein, April 21-29 at the Detroit
The Second City-Detroit opens its 20th revue, eBay
Opera House. Call for performance times.
of Pigs, a show about winning, in a new 75-minute,
$18-$98. (313) 237-7464.
no-intermission format, 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 25.
Israeli-born conductor Arie Lipsky con-
Show times-are 8 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays, with addi-
cludes his first season with the Ann Arbor
tional shows 10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. $15-
ON THE STAGE
Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m. Saturday, April
$20. (313) 965-2222.
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the
21, with a concert titled Season Finale -
Arts 6-Entertainment
Opera returns to Detroit Tuesdays-Fridays,
Symphonic Metamorphosis, at the Michigan
Editor
FAMILY
2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Theater. $17-$30. (734) 994-4801.
Sundays,
April
25-May
26,
at
the
Masonic
Experience the farm life of earlier Americans when
Cranbrook Music Guild closes out its
Temple Theatre. Additional performances: 1 p.m.
Greenfield Village in Dearborn hosts Spring Farm
season with the Ying Quartet, performing an all-
Thursday, April 26; 8 p.m. Monday, May 21; 1 p.m.
Days 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 26-29, May 5-6 and 12-13.
Beethoven program, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in
Wednesday,
May
23.
$16-$68.
(248)
645-6666.
Free with museum admission. (313) 271-1620.
the sanctuary of Christ Church, Cranbrook.
Meadow
Brook
Theatre
mounts
a
production
of
the
A Newbery Honor winner, author Kate DiCamillo
$25/$15 students; tickets available at the door.
Horrors,
with
of
campy
sci-fi
musical
Little
Shop
will
make an appearance and sign books 10-11:30 p.m.
Reservations: (810) 751-2435.
books
and
lyrics
by
Howard
Ashman
and
music
by
Wednesday,
April 25, at the Jones-Johnson Theater on
Detroit Oratorio Society, in collaboration with the
Alan Menken, April 25-May 20. Call for show times.
Royal Oak's Oakland Community College Campus.
Detroit Institute of Arts, presents Handel's opera
$21-$37.50. (248) 377-3300.
Free. Reservations: (248) 968-1190.
Acis and Galatea, in English, 8 p.m. Thursday and
Plowshares Theatre Company stages August
Friday, April 26-27, in Kresge Court at the DIA.
Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black
$28. (248) 650-2655.
THE ARTS SCENE
Bottom April 26-May 27, in the
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents "From
Cranbrook Academy of Art hosts its
Russia With Fun," with Russian conductor Gennady Anderson Center Theatre at Henry
Degree
Show, featuring new work by more
Ford Museum & Greenfield
Rozhdesrvensky and his son, violinist Alexander
than
60
Academy of Art graduate students,
Village. Call for show times. $20.
Rozhdestvensky, in a light-hearted program of musi-
April
21-May
11. (248) 645-3000.
(313) 872-0279.
cal humor that also features countertenor Derek Lee
Habitat
for
Humanity's
second annual
Rosedale Community Players pres-
Ragin, 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 8:30 p.m.
"Building
on
a
Dream"
auction,
featuring
ents the Paul Rudnick comedy I Hate
Saturday, April 26-28, at Orchestra Hall. $19-$52.
birdhouses, feeders and other garden art by
Hamlet
8
p.m.
Fridays
and
Saturdays,
(313) 576-5111.
nationally renowned artists, takes place 7-
April 27-May 12, and 2 p.m. Sunday,
10 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at Marthei
May 6, at the Upstage Theatre in Old
Botanical
Gardens in Ann Arbor. $60
Redford. $10. (313) 532-4010.
admission
includes hors d'oeuvres, wine
The Farmington Players, at their
Folk legend Gordon Lightfoot performs at
and
live
music.
(734) 677-1558.
temporary home at Barnes & Noble
Detroit's Fox Theatre 8 p.m. Saturday, April 21.
Danica Connors as Audrey
Fine
Arts
Associates
of University of
in Wes: Bloomfield, stages Stalag 17,
$25-$50. (248) 433-1515.
and Eric Collins as Seymour Michigan-Dearborn host a tour focusing
a dark comedy about World War II,
Matatpat, armed with accordions, fiddles, electric
Krelborn in Meadow
on glass, with stops at Temple Beth El
April 27-May 19. $12. Call for show
bass and one of Canada's finest step-dancers, brings the
Brook's production of
and Temple Shir Shalom to view stained
times.
(248)
553-2955.
Celtic-influenced sound of traditional French-
"Little Shop of Horrors.
glass windows and art pieces, 9:30 a.m.-
Players Guild of Dearborn pres-
Canadian music to Southfield Centre for the Arts 8
3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 28. $35/lunch
ents Stephen Sondheim's A Funny
p.M. Saturday, April 21. $10-$12. (248) 424-9022.
included.
Information
and registration: call Kenneth
Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 8 p.m.
Cabaret artist Jane A. Johnston performs "Alive and
Gross,
(313)
593-5087.
Fridays and Saturdays, April 27-May 19, and 2:30
Kicking!" a show of songs created just for her, 8 p.m.
p.m. Sundays, May 6 and 13. $14. (313) 561-8587.
Saturday, April 21, at Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert
House. $10-$25. Reservations: (734) 769-2999.
WHATNOT
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts Mr. B's Annual Blues
DANCE FEVER
John Hancock Champions on Ice, featuring
& Boogy Piano Orgy, featuring Sir Charles
Michelle Kwan, Irina Slutskaya, Brian Boitano, Jewish
The Mark Morris Dance Group presents two differ-
Thompson, Benny Green and Bob Seeley, 7:30 p.m.
skaters Michael Weiss and Dan Hollander and more,
ent programs, showcasing 20 years of Morris' choreog-
Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22; $25. Then, at 8
comes to Detroit's Joe Louis Arena 7:30 p.m. Friday,
raphy paired with a wide variety of musical styles, 8
p.m. Friday, April 27, Weavermania, a group that
April 20. $25-$55. (248) 645-6666.
p.m.
Friday
and
Saturday,
April
20-21,
at
Ann
Arbor's
reproduces the songs and sounds of the original
The city of Southfield's Ice Company presents its
Power Center. 518-$38. (734) 764-2538.
Weavers, plays The Ark. Original Weaver Frank
30th
annual, and final, ice skating spectacular
Detroit Dance Collective, under artistic directors
Hamilton opens the show; $13.50. (734) 761-1451.
Wednesday-Sunday, April 25-29, at the Southfield
Paula
Kramer
and
Barbara
Selinger,
stage
their
annual
Roots-rock band Los Lobos, with Jewish member
Sports Arena. $8.50-$9.50. For show times and tickets,
spring concert, with the premiere of new works as well
Steve Berlin on saxophone and keyboards, plays
call (248) 354-9357.
as favorite repertory pieces, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 28,
Ferndale's Magic Bag Sunday, April 22. Sold

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