Gourmet Marketplace Bakery • Catering 6092 W Maple at Farmington Road Scientists On Stage "Copenhagen," an intriguing Tony Award-winning mix of physics and drama, comes to Detroit's Fisher Theatre. (248)855-DEL1(3354) COUPON OF THE WEEK FREE I POUND OF POTATO SALAD I I or COLE SLAW WITH A , ONE-POUND PURCHASE OF , I YOUR FAVORITE DELI 1 MEAT or CHEESE 1 IN Expires 4/4/02 11.1 ow SHIVA TRAYS & BASKETS A SPECIALTY •Dairy •Deli• Nuts. •Candy• Pastry• Etc. We Also Make Custom Trays and Gift Baskets We Will Not Be Open Thurs., March 28 thru Sun., March 31 and Reopen Mon., April 1 at 6:30 a.m. and Our Regular Hours: M-F 6:30 am - 7 pm Sat 8 am - 7 pm • Sun 8 am - 3 pm MUSASHI JAPANESE CUISINE AND SUSHI BAR Since 1985 Ask, aboat ow' fter a winter of light- hearted musicals, Detroit's Fisher Theatre gets serious this spring with the arrival of Copenhagen, which will be performed April 2-21. A topical pre-opening night symposium and some on-stage seat- ing is sure to get the audience into the thick of the Tony Award-winning best play's scientific theme. information from Bohr? Did he use the meeting to Left: The hit drama of Broadway's 2000 season, confess his anguish over helping Hider? Or was he Michael Frayn's Copenhagen is a perfect blend of science and theater signaling Bohr that Germany wouldn't build a "Copenhagen" is written by the multitalented Michael Frayn, who bomb if the Allies didn't? inspired by an also is known for such whimsical shows as the farce actual event, a Noises Of currently enjoying success in a revival on meeting between Imagining The Meeting Broadway. two brilliant In Copenhagen, Frayn faced the challenge of imagin- An actual event inspired Copenhagen, one that has physicists during ing and writing about what might actually have intrigued and baffled historians for more than 50 World War II. happened at the meeting. But just recently, years. A central figure in the play is Niels Bohr, the Americans got a slightly different version of the famous Jewish physicist from Denmark who won Right: Len Cariou encounter when unpublished letters Bohr wrote the 1922 Nobel Prize for his work on the structure plays Danish Heisenberg were released. of the atom. physicist Neils The letters, written in 1957, were to be kept It was a 1941 meeting between Bohr and fellow Bohr and secret until 2012, but the Bohr family released them physicist Werner Heisenberg of Germany, a former Mariette Hartley because they felt the play was too sympathetic to student of Bohr's, that is the centerpiece of the play. portrays his wife, Heisenberg. Longtime friends, whose work together had opened Margrethe. In the letters, Bohr expresses dismay at the way to development of the atomic bomb, the Heisenberg's assertion during the meeting that two were now on opposite sides of the conflict dur- Germany would soon have the bomb. "You ... expressed your ing World War II. definite conviction that Germany would win and that it was Heisenberg, chief of Hitler's A-bomb program, made a therefore quite foolish for us to maintain the hope of a differ- covert trip at great risk to Nazi-occupied Denmark to see ent outcome of the war," Bohr wrote. Bohr, his old mentor, and Bohr's wife, Margrethe. But the These letters don't entirely resolve the matter, but they make meeting ended in disaster. things more intriguing for Copenhagen audiences. Why did Heisenberg go to Denmark, and what did the two Actor Len Cariou, a 1979 Tony winner for Sweeney Todd men say to each other? Did Heisenberg attempt to extract Birthday tisc,Pagt- • Catering and Delivery • Private Room & Banquet Facilities • Open 7 days a week 7,14 3/29 2002 78 2000 Town Center, Suite 98 (10 1/2 Mile & Evergreen) Southfield (248) 358-1911 http://wwwmusashi-intl.com In conjunction with the play Copenhagen, a free sympo- sium will be held 6-9 p.m. Monday, April 1, on the DaimlerChrysler Science Stage at the new Detroit Science Center, 5020 John R at Warren. Titled From A-Bomb to Anthrax: Science, Society and Terrorism," the symposium brings together participants from the play, historians, scholars and a nuclear- physicist congressman. Panelists include U.S. Rep. Verne Ehlers, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and Standards; Professor Al Saperstein of the Wayne State University department of physics; Professor Paul. Rose of Penn State University, author of Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project 1939-194 -5; actor Hank- Stratton, who portrays Heisenberg in Copenhagen; and moderator Jack Lessenberry, Wayne State journalism professor. For further information, call the Science Center, at (313) 577-8400, Ext. 430.