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THE 'V' WORD

"I was worried about what we
think of vaginas, and even
more worried that we don't
think about them," an actress
declares in Eve Ensler's The

one-week limited run Feb.
19-24, directed by Abby
Epstein. (The cast is yet to
be announced.)
Showtimes are 8 p.m.
Tuesday-Friday with Saturday
performances at 5 and 8 p.m.
and Sunday performances at
2 and 7 p.m. $23-$45.50.
For information, call (313)
963-2366; for tickets, call
(248) 645-6666.

Vagina Monologues.
That worry is what
GAII /INI MERMAN
prompted Ensler to write the
c:-/-*ut artainniellt
fOr
Obie-winning hit play, based
on interviews she conducted
with more than 200 women.
In the usual stage version, three
THE Music MAN
barefoot women sit on stools and chat
about the "V" word, but Ensler will
Michael Tilson Thomas, music direc-
perform the piece solo in an HBO
tor of the San Francisco Symphony as
documentary special airing 9:30 p.m.
well as founder and artistic director of
Thursday, Feb. 14. Based on the play
the New World Symphony, a national
performance, the film also will include
training orchestra for the most gifted
all-new interviews and behind-the-
graduates of America's conservatories,
scenes com-
follows in his family's footsteps with a
mentary.
career in the arts.
Ensler, who
A grandson of Boris Thomashefsky,
grew up in a
arguably the most famous actor of the
well-to-do
American Yiddish Theater, the 57-
Jewish neigh-
year-old Los Angeles-born
borhood in
composer/conductor wrote From the
Scarsdale as the
Diary of Anne Frank, for narrator and
daughter of a
orchestra, as a commission from
sexually and
UNICEF. It
physically abu- Eve Ensler
was given its
sive Jewish
world premiere
father and a
at
Cherokee Holocaust-obsessed mother,
Philadelphia's
wrote the play to celebrate female sex-
Academy of
uality and to end sexual violence and
Music in 1990
shame.
by the late
"My bedtime stories consisted of
Audrey
Holocaust stories and tales of Indian
Hepburn and
genocide. I think that's why I've
Michael Tilson Thomas the New
become so obsessed with people being
World
erased," she once said in an interview.
Symphony and
After a difficult adolescence and alco-
has been played around the world,
holic young adulthood, Ensler married
including a Hebrew version by the
saloon owner Richard McDermott
Israel Philharmonic.
when she was 26, legally adopting his
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the
then 19-year-old son, Dylan, now the
San Francisco Symphony in perform-
star of ABC's The Practice. Now
ances for University Musical Society 8
divorced, she lives with her longtime
p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15-16,
companion, an Israeli psychotherapist.
at Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium.
The Monologues, which since its
Friday's program features works by
1996 debut run has turned into an
Schoenberg and Mahler's Das Lied von
international phenomenon, often fea-
der Erde. Saturday's program, with the
turing rotating three-person celebrity
UMS Choral Union, includes works
casts, comes to Detroit's Music Hall
by Berlioz and traditional hymns.
Center for the Performing Arts for a
$20-$56. (734) 764-2538.

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