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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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