Entertainment

CLASSICAL NOTES

ON THE STAGE

The curtain rises on the annual
Violinist Itzhak Perlman, in his first
Preservation
Wayne Downtown Detroit
season as guest conductor of the Detroit
Saturday, Aug. 11, when
Theater
Tour
Symphony Orchestra, will fill in for DSO
four-hour
walking
tours through the Fox,
music director Neeme Jarvi, who is recov-
State,
former
Michigan,
Music Hall, Gem
ering from a stroke, for the orchestra's first
and Detroit Opera House theaters will be
three concerts, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Friday
conducted. Tours leave the State Theatre
and Saturday, Sept. 12, 15 and 16, at
lobby on Woodward Avenue every 30
Orchestra Hall. The DSO's opening con-
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minutes from 9-11:30 a.m. The $25 fee
cert on Sept. 13 has been rescheduled so
Arts 6- Ewe) -tainment
includes a lunch stop at Harmonie Park's
Edit or
that Perlman can perform that day in a
Centre Street Pub. (313) 577-3559.
sold-out concert with the North Carolina
Ann Arbor's Performance Network hosts
Symphony in Raleigh. For season ticket
local
playwright
Joseph Zettelmaier's Fever Dreams,
information, call (313) 576-5120.
in
which
a
young
woman must choose between soli-
The DSO performs a Tchaikovsky Spectacular,
tary
reality
and
a
near-perfect
fantasy, 8 p.m.
featuring Detroiter James Tocco on piano, 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays
and
2
p.m.
Sundays, Aug. 16-
Friday and Saturday, Aug. 10-11, on the final week-
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$12-$15.
(734)
663-0681.
end of the orchestra's summer season at Meadow
Brook Music Festival. Both all-Tchaikovsky pro-
grams include the 1812 Overture and fireworks.
DANCE FEVER
$10-$56. (313) 576-5111.
led
by
The Trinity Irish Dance Company, featuring 22
The Boston Pops Symphony Orchestra,
young dancers between the ages of 18 and 24, visits
Keith Lockhart, plays a concert of symphonic and
Meadow Brook Music Festival 8 p.m. Friday and
pops music 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, at Detroit's
Saturday, Aug. 17-18. $15-$35. (248) 645-6666.
Fox Theatre. $37.50-$75. (248) 433-1515.

Pop/RocK/JAzz

Royal Oak Music Theatre hosts Bill Haley's
Original Comets, performing a show of vintage hits,
6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, $25; and the dulcet tones
of Emmylou Harris, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15,
$25-$27.50. (248) 645-6666.
DTE Energy Music Theatre presents the
Temptation Review, featuring Dennis Edwards,
Herb Reed and the Platters, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug.
11, $18-$29.50; progressive rock band Yes, who'll
perform with a symphony, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug.
12, $19-$38; rock 'n' roll supergroup Crosby, Stills
and Nash, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13, $32.50-
$42.50; country stars Billy Ray Cyrus and Aaron
Tippin, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, $18.50-
$32.50; and the sounds of the '60s, with the New
Rascals, the Association and Gary Puckett, 7 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 17, $16.50-$26.50. (248) 645-6666.
Marvin Hamlisch conducts and performs on
piano to conclude the DSO's Summer Pops Series
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12, at Meadow Brook Music
Festival. $10-$56. (313) 576-5111.
Singer/keyboardist Bruce Hornsby takes the
stage at Sterling Height's Freedom Hill
Amphitheatre 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15.
$17-$37. (248) 645-6666.
Detroit's own Marshall Crenshaw performs 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 15, at The Ark in Ann Arbor.
$17.50. (734) 761-1451.

LAUGH LINES

Yadda, yadda, yadda ... Jerry
Seinfeld returns to standup at
Toledo's Stranahan Theatre 7
p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22. $46-
$76. (419) 474-1333.

FAMILY FUN

Inspired by the tradition of European vaudeville,
Landis & Company's World of Magic will appear at
Meadow Brook Music Festival for two, hour-long
performances 2 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15. $8-
$12.50. (248) 645-6666.
Benefiting Detroit Discovery Museum, a nonprof-
it "museum without walls" that brings hands-on,
traveling exhibits to metro-Detroit children, is the
Detroit Discovery Museum's Zoo Clue 2001 Kit.
An educational packet that turns kids into nature
detectives as they roam the zoo searching for clues,
solving animal riddles, recording their answers and
earning a chance to earn certificates and win prizes,
the kits are available for $12.50 each. Call (313)
438-1277, or send a check payable to Detroit
Discovery Museum, 19678 Harper Ave., Suite 101,
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236.

THE ART SCENE

Sybaris Gallery in Royal Oak presents the Detroit
Area Artist's Connection (DAAC) exhibition
Twenty-Four Eyes, featuring the work of 12 local
artists including Barbara Dorchen, Marcia
Freedman, Marilyn Schecter and Linda Soberman,
Aug. 15-Sept. 1. Opening reception: 6-8 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 15. (248) 544-3388.
Rochester's Paint Creek Center for the Arts
hosts Made in Michigan, an
exhibition showcasing Michigan
artists, Aug. 17-Sept. 22.
Opening reception: 6-8 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 17. (248) 651-4110.

THE BIG SCREEN

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

The Detroit Film Theatre
debuts its fall/winter season
Aug. 10-12 with the Jim
McKay film Our Song, a por-
trait of the daily lives of three
15-year-old Brooklyn girls.
Show times are 7 and 9:30
p.m. Friday; 4, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday; and 1, 4 and 7 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 10-12. Highlights
of the season include David
and Laurie Shapiro's Keep the
River on Your Right (Aug. 27),
the Oscar-nominated Czech
film Divided We Fall (Sept.
14- 16) and Israeli director
Amos Gitai's Kippur (Oct. 29).
$5-$6. For a complete schedule
and more information, call
(313) 833-3237.

Former Detroiter Amy Goldman
Koss, author of two new books for
children and young adults, Stolen
Words and Strike Two, and Marcy
Heller Fisher, local author of The
Outdoor Museum: The Magic of
Michigan's Marshall M. Fredericks,
also geared toward young people,
hold a book signing at the Book
Beat in Oak Park 7-9 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 16. (248) 968-1190
Friday, Aug. 31, is the deadline
for local authors to send their sub-
missions to the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan Detroit for
a local book fair to take place dur-
ing the JCC's 50th annual Jewish
Book Fair. Call Elaine
Schonberger, (248) 432-5577.

Itzhak Perlman will conduct the
opening concerts of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra season at
Orchestra Hall.

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the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.

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2001

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