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BENEFITS

Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation benefit
dinner, a strolling dinner event featuring 50 of
metro Detroit's top chefs and wine distributors,
takes place 7-10 p.m. Sunday, April 29, at the
Somerset Collection. One hundred percent of pro-
ceeds raised will benefit four local charities: Gleaners
Community Food Bank, Food Bank of Oakland
County, Forgotten Harvest and Detroit
Entrepreneurship Institute. $75. To order tickets,
call (248) 332-1473 or (313) 923-3535.
Gilda's Big Night Out III, Gilda's Club Metro
Detroit's premiere fund-raiser, takes place 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 3, at Andiamo Banquet Center in
Warren, featuring an evening of food, dancing and
fun with a Motown theme. For more information,
call (248) 577-0800.
The Allen Park Parks and Recreation Foundation
FAMILY FUN
presents composer Stephen Schwartz and Friends, in
Youtheatre presents Footprints on the Moon, a
a benefit concert for a new civic complex and commu-
musical revue chronicling the early days of the U.S.
nity center, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, at the Allen Park
space program performed by New York's
Civic Auditorium, 16850 Southfield Road, just south
Theatreworks/USA, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday
of I-94. Accompanying Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin,
and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28-29, at Southfield's
Prince of Egypt) will be singers Debbie Shapiro
Millennium Theatre. Suitable for children ages 5 and
Gravitte and Scott Coulter. $20-$30. (313) 928-9192.
up. $8 advance/$10 at the door. (248) 557-7529.
The 2001 Designer Showhouse Gala, a cocktail-
attire fund-raiser benefiting the Detroit Historical
Society, previews this year's designer Showhouse in
THE ART SCENE
Bloomfield Hills 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 4. $150/per
Royal Oak's Sybaris Gallery presents Contrasts in
person. (313) 833-1980.
Formality, featuring two distinct types of contempo-
The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival hosts
rary Japanese baskets - bamboo baskets inspired by
its Gala Festival Preview Party and Auction, featur-
tradition and sculptural baskets defying conventional
ing a strolling dinner buffet and tour of the muse-
notions of form and function - through May 19.
urn's classic car collection, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 5,
Running concurrently at the gallery is a show of
at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills.
enamel jewelry. (248) 544-9552.
Director/pianist James Tocco will perform, and
Rochester's Paint Creek Center for the Arts hosts It's
Temple Beth El Rabbi Daniel Syme is one of the
All Academic, an exhibition featuring the work of 31 fac-
auctioneers. $75/$125 patrons. (248) 559-2097.
ulty members from colleges and universities in Michigan,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen will
Ohio and Windsor, April 27-May 25. Opening recep-
be the guest speaker at a luncheon to benefit
tion: 6-8 p.m. Friday, April 27.
HAVEN, Oakland County's center for
(248) 651-4110.
the prevention and treatment of domestic
Cranbrook Academy of Art
violence, sexual assault and child abuse,
presents Architectural Emigres,
noon Tuesday, May 8, at Birmingham's
a symposium featuring world-
Townsend Hotel. A private champagne
renowned experts exploring the
reception for benefactors begins at 11
impact of America on four
a.m. $125/$350 benefactors. (248) 334-
European modernist architects,
1284, Ext. 340.
1:30-4 p.m. Saturday, May 5,
Brandeis University National
at Cranbrook Art Museum's
Women's Committee holds its annual
deSalle Auditorium. Among
opera fund raiser, an uninterrupted
those featured will be Rafael
dress rehearsal of Michigan Opera
Moneo, winner of the 1996
Theatre's production of Verdi's Falstaff, 1
Pritzker Prize and architect of
p.m. Thursday, May 12. Buses leave the
Youtheatre presents "Footprints
Cranbrook's New Studios
Congregation Shaarey Zedek parking lot
on the Moon" at Southfield's
Building. Open to the public.
promptly at noon. $50. Information and
Millennium Theatre.
(248) 645-3142.
reservations: (248) 851-6495.

Michigan Ballet Theatre teams up with
The Jewish Community Center of
guest artists from the Joffrey Ballet to pres-
Metropolitan Detroit established the
ent Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, direct-
Intergenerational Choir in 1994 to bring
ed by Cornelia Sampson, 7 p.m. Friday
together senior citizens and youth from the
and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, May 4-5, at
former Soviet Union. The group performs 4
Lake Orion High School's Performing Arts
p.m. Sunday, April 29, at Temple Emanu-El
Center. $10-$12. (248) 652-3117.
in Oak Park. $3. (248) 967-4030.
The Jewish Community Center hosts the
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Si and Muriel Israel Memorial Concert,
Arts c Entertointizent.
LAUGH LINES
featuring artists from Michigan Opera
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Theatre, 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 3, in the
Stand-up comedian Paula Poundstone
Marion and David Handleman Hall and
brings her razor-sharp wit to Macomb Center for
Auditorium at the West Bloomfield JCC. Free of
the Performing Arts 8 p.m. Friday, April 27. $22-
charge/reservations required. Call (248) 661-7649.
$26. (810) 286-2222.

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Four veterans of the Chicago folk scene re-create
the sounds of the original Weavers - including the
group's Jewish members, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred
Hellerman - in Weavermania, coming to Ann
Arbor's The Ark 8 p.m. Friday, April 27; $13.50.
Bluesman Leon Redbone visits The Ark 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 29; $17.50. (734) 761-1451.
One of the fathers of the '60s British blues move-
ment and frontman for the Bluesbreakers,
singer/harmonica player John Mayall performs
Tuesday, May 1, at Ferndale's Magic Bag. Doors at 8
p.m. $22 advance/$25 day of. (248) 544-3030.

ON THE STAGE

The Purple Rose Theatre Company stages the
world premiere of Dennis E. North's Orphan Train:
An American Melodrama, a slice-of-life look at the
happiness and hardships endured by farming fami-
lies during the late 1920s, 8 p.m. Wednesdays
through Saturdays, with matinees at 3 p.m.
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, through June 16.
$22.50-$32.50. (734) 433-7673.
As part of Detroit's 300th birthday celebration,
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit presents 2001
Hastings St., a musical written and directed by Rick
Sperling recalling Detroit's "Black Bottom" and the
music of the 1940s. Show times are 8 p.m. Friday
and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 4-6, at
Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts.
$7-$15. (248) 545-6666.
Plymouth Theatre Guild mounts a production of
Laurence Carr's Vaudeville: A Play with Music, a
nostalgic comedy filled with the authentic songs and
acts of the period, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays,
May 4-19, and 6 p.m. Sunday, May 13, at the
Watertower Theater in Northville. Barbara Bloom of
Novi directs. $7-$10. (248) 349-7110.

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