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ment and arts festival, featuring 185 fine art
exhibitors, national and local talent perform-
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra cele-
ing on five live music stages, special exhibits
brates the start of the 2001-2002 season
and entertainment for children, comes to
Friday, Sept. 14, with A Gala Opening
downtown Pontiac, including Phoenix Playa,
Night, a benefit concert featuring the
Friday-Monday, Aug. 31-Sept. 3. National
DSO with special guest vocalist and
headliners include Blues Traveler (Friday),
Broadway star Bernadette Peters. A cock-
Little Feat (Saturday) and The Spinners
tail reception begins at 5:30 p.m., fol-
(Sunday), all performing 10 p.m. on the
lowed by a sit-down dinner, the 9 p.m.
'<malt National Stage. More than 45 restau-
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
concert and an afterglow with dessert and
rants will offer a smorgasbord of eats and
Arts &Entertainment
dancing. Ticket packages including dinner
treats. For additional information and a
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are $1,000 per ticket/concert and after-
complete schedule, call (248) 975-8850 or
glow only, $250 each. There are a limited
go to wwwartsbeatseats.com .
number of concert-only tickets ranging from $25-
$65. For packages, call (313) 576-5147; for concert
ON THE STAGE
only, call (313) 576-5111.
Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, which has
grown from an off-Broadway hit into an international
phenomenon, plays Ann Arbor's Power Center 8 p.m.
Thursday and Friday, 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7
The DTE Energy Music Theatre lineup this week
p.m. Sunday, and 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday,
includes pop-rockers Vertical Horizon, 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 6-12. Directed by Abby Epstein, the monologues
Saturday, Sept. 1, $20-$32.50; rocker Eddie Money,
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expressing humor, pain, wisdom and outrage -
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 2, $13-$20; blues/rock slide
will be delivered by actresses Susie Essman, Tracey A.
guitarist George Thorogood & the Destroyers, 7:30
Leigh and Amy Love. $20-$40. (248) 645-6666.
p.m. Monday, Sept. 3, $18.50-$28.50; rock vocalist
Stagecrafters presents the Tony Award-winning
Sammy Hagar, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, $18-
musical Damn Yankees, directed and choreographed
$35; and Lloyd's Blue Music Festival, starring B.B.
by Barbara Bloom of Novi, Sept. 7-30 at Royal
King, Buddy Guy, John Hiatt and more, 6 p.m.
Oak's Baldwin Theatre. Call for show times. $14-
Friday, Sept. 7, $18.50-$39.50. (248) 645-6666.
$16. (248) 541-6430.
The first annual Detroit Music Festival, featuring
Luther Vandross, Missy Elliot, Frankie Beverly and
Maze, and more, visits Comerica Park 6 p.m.
LAUGH LINES
Saturday, Sept. 1. $38.50-$68.50. (313) 471-6606.
Sardonic critic of pop culture Jerry Seinfeld ("Not
The B-52s, with Fred Schneider on vocals, take
since the original Pearl Harbor were so many mil-
the stage at Sterling Heights'
lions of Americans taken by surprise by a disaster,"
Freedom Hill Amphitheatre 7:30
Blues Traveler
he remarked about the recent movie) brings his
p.m. Friday, Sept. 7. $15-$40.
performs
humorous observations to the stage of the Fox
(248) 645-6666.
at Labor Day
Theatre with two shows, 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday,
Weekend's
Oct. 6. $47-$77. (248) 433-1515.
Chrysler Arts,
FESTIVAL FUN
Beats es. Eats.
The Ford Detroit
THE SMALL SCREEN
International Jazz Festival, a free
A Night at the Opera, one of the
0
100-act, four-stage extravaganza
Marx Brothers' best films, will be
filling Hart Plaza Friday-
shown sans commercials and intro-
Monday, Aug. 31-Sept 3, cele-
duced by Detroit Film Theatre's Elliot
brates Detroit's 300th birthday .
Wilhelm,
as part of Detroit Public
with a multitude of jazz artists
Television-Channel
56's Film Fest
with Detroit roots. See "Jazz and
series,
9
p.m.
Friday,
Aug. 31. Check
the City" (Aug. 24, page 82) for
your
local
listings.
a story on the festival; for more
information and a complete
schedule, call (313) 963-7622 or
FAMILY FUN
go to www.detroitjazzfest.com .
The PuppetArt/Detroit Puppet
Chrysler Arts, Beats & Eats,
Theater begins its new season 2 p.m.
Oakland County's free entertain-
CLASSICAL
Pop/RocKIJAzz
O
Saturday, Sept. 8, with Oh, Ananse!, a new produc-
tion based on a West African folktale. It will also be
performed 2 p.m. Saturdays, Sept. 15, 22 and 29.
$ 7 adults/$5 children. (313) 961-3771.
THE ART SCENE
C-Pop Gallery hosts works by Winston Smith,
known for his album covers for the Dead Kennedys and
Green Day, and David Le Batard, whose mural in Hart
Plaza will be on display during the 2001 Ford Detroit
International Ja77 Festival, Aug. 31-Sept. 30. Opening
reception: 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31. (313) 833-9901.
Art on the Green, a fine art show in downtown
Franklin, takes place 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Sept.
3. (248) 594-3093.
Artist Ernestine Ruben discusses her work in the exhib-
it "In Human Touch: Photographs by Emestine Ruben" 6
p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at the University of Michigan
Museum of Art in Ann Arbor. (734) 763-8662.
The Woods Gallery, located in the lower level of
the Huntington Woods Library, presents an exhibit
by the Palette and Brush Club through Oct. 11.
(248) 543-9720.
The Birmingham Society of Women Painters
57th Annual Fall Exhibit will be on display at
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Sept. 7-28. The
show celebrates the lives and works of the late Ricki
Berlin of West Bloomfield and the late Betty Dennis
of Birmingham. Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 14. (248) 355-0167.
Meadow Brook Art Gallery hosts New Generation
Detroit, a survey of the work of eight emerging
artists, Sept. 7-Oct. 7. Opening reception: 5-9 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 7. A symposium, "Painting to Live or
Living to Paint: Career or Lifestyle," will be held 2
p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22. (248) 370-3005.
BENEFITS
A benefit for the Metro Detroit Chapter of
Professional Journalists Scholarship Fund features a
media roast of former television news anchor Bill
Bonds, and takes place 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at
Excalibur Restaurant and Banquet Center in
Southfield. $100. For tickets, call (810) 739-0754.
The Michigan/NE Indiana Lupus Foundation
presents Trendsetter 2001, an evening of fashion,
food and fun to benefit lupus research, Friday, Sept.
14, in the South Rotunda of the Somerset
Collection in Troy. Fashions by Neiman Marcus,
food and cocktails by the Canape Cart and a silent
auction all are part of the evening, which begins
with a 6 p.m. reception prior to the 7 p.m. program.
Tickets are $60 each (tax deductible portion is $40).
For tickets, call the Lupus Foundation, (810) 775-
8330, or Missy Selfon, (248) 889-4075.
FYI: For Arts and Entertainment related events that you wish to have considered for Out &About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number,
before
to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 354-6069; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks
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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