CLASSICAL
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra continues its
summer season at Meadow Brook Music Festival with
light classical family programs followed by fireworks
8 p.m. Fridays and traditional repertoire 8 p.m.
Saturdays. $14-$59. For a complete schedule: (313)
576-5111 or www.detroitsymphonyorchestra.org .
An evening of classical syMphonic music with a
twist, Bugs Bunny on Broadway features a live musi-
cal track to many of the classic Warner Brothers car-
toons and comes to the DTE Energy Music Theatre
8 p.m. Sunday, July 21. $15-$30. (248) 645-6666.
Pop/RocK/JAzz
Royal Oak Theatre hosts Wilco 8 p.m. Saturday,
July 20. Doors at 7 p.m. $23. (248) 645-6666.
Los Lobos bring "La Bamba" and more to
Detroit's St. Andrew's Hall Saturday, July 20. Doors
at 8 p.m. $22. (248) 645-6666.
The Detroit Symphony Pops at Meadow Brook
Music Festival presents Radio Days, a fully staged
1940s musical retrospective with vocalists Five by
Design, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 21; and Celebrating
Sarah Vaughn with Dianne Reeves, in which
Detroit native Reeves honors the
jazz legend with songs from her
2002 Grammy-winning CD, The
Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughn,
7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 28. $14-$59.
(248) 576-5111.
Alternative pop-rock artists John
Mayer and Guster, with special
guest Martin Sexton, make an
appearance at Meadow Brook Music
Festival 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 22;
$21.50-$24.50. (248) 645-6666.
DTE Energy Music Theatre hosts
rocker Lenny Kravitz, with special guests Pink and
Abandoned Pools, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 23,
$32.50-$62.50; rockers Gin Blossoms, Spin
Doctorsand Sponge, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 24,
$18-$32.50; classic rockers The Doobie Brothers,
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, $17-$29; and Canadian
classic rockers The Guess Who, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 31, $23-$42.50. (248) 645-6666.
Detroit's Chene Park Music Theatre presents jazz
guitarist/composer Chuck Loeb, performing with
Jeff Kashiwa and the Braxton Brothers, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, July 24, $15; and Chuck Mangione
with Angela Bofill, 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 31, $8-
$15. (248) 645-6666.
Sterling Heights' Freedom Hill Amphitheatre
hosts Verve Pipe, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26, $20-
$30; and The Rippingtons, Jean-Luc-Ponty and
David Benoit - V98.7 Smooth Jazz, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 1. $25-$35. (248) 645-6666.
Detroit's Fox Theatre welcomes R & B group
New Edition, 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 26,
$50-$75; and progressive rock band Yes,
8 p.m. Saturday, July 27, $34.50-$65.
(313) 433-1515.
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts folk
chanteuse Shawn Colvin, 8 p.m.
Sunday, July 30, $35; and former lead
guitarist of Jefferson Airplane and Hot
Tuna Jorma Kaukonen, with Blue
Country (Kaukonen's latest project
explores bluegrass), 8 p.m. Friday, Aug.
2, $17.50. (734) 761-1451.
LAUGH LINES
Veteran standup comedian David Brenner
provides his take on the world 8 p.m.
Thursday and 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, Aug. 1-3, at the Comedy Castle in
Royal Oak. $20. (248) 542-9900.
THE BIG SCREEN
The Motor City Organ Theatre Society
hosts a Three Stooges Festival, starring
Moe Howard, Jerome "Curly" Howard
and Larry Fine, 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8
p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2-3, at the Redford
Theatre in Detroit. Organ overtures begin one-half
hour prior to show time. Tickets available at the
door. $4. (313) 531-4407.
GAIL ZI M M ERMAN
Arts & Entertainment
Editor
ON THE STAGE
Water Works Theatre Company stages William
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew in Royal
Oak's Starr Jaycee Park, 13 Mile Road between Crooks
Road and Main Street, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays, 3
and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 7 p.m. Sundays, July 25-
Aug. 4. $20 adults/$10 under 18. (248) 988-1359.
Ridgedale Players' third annual Shakespeare
Festival mounts productions of Hamlet and A
Midsummer Night's Dream 8 p.m. Fridays, 2 and 8
p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, July 26-Aug.
11. $12 for one play/$22 for two plays. For specific
The Redford
Theatre hosts a
Three Stooges film
festival, starring, le
to right, Larry Fine,
Moe Howard and
Jero m e "Curly"
Howard, Aug. 2-3.
show times and to order tickets, call (248) 988-
7049 or go to www.ridgedaleplayers.com
The Treetown Performance Festival at Ann
Arbor's Performance Network hosts the one-man
show Ground Zen, Bill Bayer's funny and poignant
look at love, history, teaching and current events;
and Skinny Arms, beat poet Annie Gallup's song
cycle of linked stories about family, friends and love,
8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 1-4. $15-$18/pay what you can
Thursdays. (734) 663-0681.
DANCE FEVER
The Treetown Performance Festival at Ann
Arbor's Performance Network presents Dancing in
Summer, a showcase of modern dance works by
independent choreographers, 8 p.m. Thursday-
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 25-28. $15-
$18/pay what you can Thursdays. (734) 663-0681.
THE ART SCENE
Ground Zero, an exhibition of post-9-11 art, fea-
tures the work of more than 50 artists around the
country and is on display through Aug. 24 at the
Museum of New Art (MONA), located in the Book
Building on Washington Boulevard in Detroit.
(313) 961-2845.
WHATNOT
Indiana author Frances Sherwood reads from and
signs copies of her novel The Book of Splendor, about
the unlikely romance between a seamstress and a
golem created in 17th-century Prague to protect the
Jewish people, 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 24, at Shaman
Drum bookstore in Ann Arbor. (734) 662-7407.
The first annual Southfield Concours d'Elegance,
showcasing classic/vintage American and foreign auto-
mobiles from the early 1900s-1969, takes place 9 a.m.-
4 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at Plum Hollow Country Club
in Southfield; $15/$10 students and seniors/under 12
free. A Wine and Wheels charity auction/gala takes
place 7 p.m.-midnight Saturday, July 20, at Plum
Hollow. Information and tickets: (248) 539-2150.
The 24th annual Meadow Brook Hall Concours
d'Elegance runs Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 1-4, at
Meadow Brook Hall on the campus of Oakland
University in Rochester, culminating 9:30 a.m.-4:30
p.m. Sunday with an outdoor exhibition of more
than 250 of the world's most prized classic automo-
biles. Sunday's event is $20 adults/$10 ages 10-
13/12 and under free. For further information
about other events, including an automotive art
exhibit, automotive tour, historic races, gala ban-
quet, auction and fashion show, call (248) 370-3140
or go to the Web site at www.mbhconcours.org .
The Jewish News is looking for Elvis fans for an
upcoming story. E-mail Don Cohen at
doncohen@comcast.net .
- Out & About returns on Aug. 2.
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,
Notice must be received at least three weeks before the
to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 30301 Northwestern Highway, MI 48334; fax us at (248) 539-3075; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com
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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