Arts & Entertainment
CLASSICAL NOTES
Pianist Helen Kerwin performs solo
and duo in a Grosse Pointe Chamber
Music Series concert 2:30 p.m. Sunday,
Jan. 13, at the Grosse Pointe War
Memorial. The public is invited at no
charge.
Ulf Schirmer conducts the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra in 2002: A
Strauss Odyssey 8 p.m. Thursday and
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Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 17-20, at Orchestra Hall,
featuring Also sprach Zarathustra. The
piece's opening fanfare was made famous by the
Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. $20-
$54. (313) 576-5111.
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Get into the patriotic spir-
it as the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra presents Stars,
Stripes and Pops 8:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday and 3
p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11-13, at
Orchestra Hall. In addition
to classic Stephen Foster
tunes and stirring Sousa
marches, the concert fea-
tures Detroiter Marcus
Belgrave's salute to Louis
Armstrong. $19-$51. (313)
576-5111.
Often recognized as the
greatest jazz clarinetist since
Benny Goodman, Pete
Fountain grew up in New
Orleans listening to
Goodman's recordings. The
"Ambassador of Jazz" per-
forms 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan.
12, at Music Hall Center
for the Performing Arts.
$25-$50/senior and student
discounts available. (313)
963-2366.
Harmonica virtuoso Peter
Madcat Ruth and blues gui-
tarist Shari Kane, better
know as "Madcat and
Kane," share their love of
the blues 8 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 13, at the Ark in Ann
Arbor. $11. (734) 761-
1451.
Winner of a B'nai B'rith
Humanitarian Award, blues
guitarist B.B. King brings his memorable
music and his electric guitar "Lucille" to
the stage of Detroit's Fox Theatre 8 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 18. $30-$37.50. (248) 433-
1515.
ON THE STAGE
Troy's Ridgedale Players stage Neil
Simon's The Good Doctor, a series of
comic sketches based on the work of play-
Entertainment
wright Anton Chekhov, 8 p.m. Fridays
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and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays, Jan.
11-27. $11-$12. (248) 988-7049.
Stagecrafters 2nd Stage features John Guare's Six
Degrees of Separation, exploring issues ranging
from social status and materialism to class differ-
ences and race relations, Jan. 11-20, at Royal Oak's
Baldwin Theatre.
The play won Jerry
The "greatest
clarinetist
since Benny
Goodman,"
Pete Fountain
performs
Saturday at
Music Hall
Center for the
Performing
Arts.
Zaks the 1991 Tony Award for Best Direction as
well as the Drama Desk Award. The Stagecrafters
cast features Dan Fisher of Birmingham, Eli Magid
of Detroit and Caryn Gach of Royal Oak. Call for
show times. $10. (248) 541-6430.
Players Guild of Dearborn mounts a production
of James Sherman's Beau Jest, a comedy in which a
nice Jewish girl hires an actor to portray her "nice
Jewish fiance" for the benefit of her clueless parents,
Jan. 11-27. For show times and ticket information,
call (313) 561-TKTS.
Wayne State University's Hilberry Theatre opens
William Shakespeare's The Tempest 8 p.m. Friday
and Saturday, Jan. 11-12. Runs in repertory through
March 28. $9-$12. (313) 577-2972.
Boarshead Theater in Lansing presents the
Margaret Edson Pulitzer Prize-winning play -Wit
Jan. 17-Feb. 10. For show times and ticket informa-
tion, call (517) 484-7805.
Birmingham's Village Players puts on
Stephen Sondheim's classical musical corn-
edy and toga party, A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum, Jan.
18-Feb. 2. Debi Bernstein-Siegel guides
the production as choreographer and assis-
tant director, and Frederick Shulak of
Rochester Hills, Don Schore of Southfield
and Rebecca Biber of Ferndale, all mem-
bers of metro Detroit's Jewish community,
are in the cast. For show times and ticket
information, call (248) 644-2075.
Meadow Brook Theatre hosts The Mystery of
Irma Vep, a two-person "tour de farce" sending up
classic monster movies and penny-dreadful novels,
through Feb. 3. Call for show times. $17-$38.
(248) 377-3300.
St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild of Cranbrook pres-
ents Neil Simon's Jake's Women, a comic look at
modern relationships, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays
and 2 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 18-26. $10-$12. (248)
644-0527.
DANCE FEVER
Above: The Grigorovich Ballet dances "Swan Lake" Sunday at the Fox Theatre.
Above right: Maureen Schiffman and her puppet pal Coco put on a show for
families Sunday at Temple Beth El
Top right: Howard Kottler's "Cup for Alice," in the exhibition "Hard to Handle"
at Ferndale's Revolution Gallery.
Inspired by Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story
and Baz Luhrmann's recent film Romeo and Juliet,
Rennie Harris' Rome and Jewels reconceives the
classic Shakespeare play, combining Elizabethan lan-
guage, rap verse and hip-hop choreography.
Performances are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan.
11-12, at Ann Arbor's Power Center. $18-$36.
(734) 764-2538.
The Moscow Grigorovich Ballet performs
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan.
13, at Detroit's Fox Theatre. $27.50-$45. (248)
433-1515.
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