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CLASSICAL NOTES
ON THE STAGE
The Ann Arbor Symphony
Orchestra, led by Israeli-born conduc-
tor Arie Lipsky, presents its annual
Mozart Birthday Bash, featuring the
composer's Piano Concerto No. 19 and
Serenade No. 9 ("Post-Horn), 8 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 18, at the Michigan
Theater in Ann Arbor. $18-$33.
(734) 994-4801.
Russian violinist Vladimir Spivakov
conducts the Moscow Virtuosi
Chamber Orchestra 8 p.m. Tuesday,
Jan. 21, at Southfield's Millennium
Theatre. $35-$60. (248) 552-1225.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
tackles Mozart's Requiem, featuring
soloists and the Michigan State
University Chorale, 8 p.m. Thursday
and Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 2
p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23-26, at Orchestra
Hall. $15-$56. And, the DSO cele-
brates the life of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19,
when Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick nar-
rates Aaron Copland's A Lincoln
Portrait, among other works by
Beethoven, Dvorak, Ellington,
Morton Gould and more. $8-$25.
(313) 576-5111.
The Fantasticks may have ended
its almost 42-year-run Off
Broadway, but the classic musical
— featuring local attorneys Jay
Kaplan, Wayne Yashinsky and Jeff
Jones— takes the stage 8 p.m.
Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays, Jan. 24-Feb. 2, at the
Village Players of Birmingham. $15.
(248) 644-2075.
Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical
sequel to Long Day's Journey into
Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten
will be performed at Wayne State
University's Bonstelle Theatre 8 p.m.
Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays, Jan. 24-Feb. 2. $10. (313)
577-2960.
DANCE FEVER
Utilizing a blend of modern dance,
traditional West African dance, Native
American movement, live and record-
ed music, and the martial arts in its
performances, Forces of Nature
Dance Theatre takes the stage 8 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 18, at Music Hall
Center for the Performing Arts. $30-
$40. (313) 963-2366.
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Performers Brian Pardo, Gabe
Bolkosky, Dina Maccabee, Tal
Kopstein, Jordan Young and Jason
Markzon join together for Into the
Freylakh, a concert combining tradi-
tional klezmer and Eastern European
music with jazz and classical influ-
ences, 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, at
Canterbury House, 721 E. Huron, in
Ann Arbor. $5. (734) 764-3162.
At The Ark in Ann Arbor: Singer-
songwriter and one-time clinical psy-
chologist Lucy Kaplansky offers her
blues- and country-flavored, often
confessional, ballads 8 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 18; $15. And, named after a
Django Reinhardt song, Les Yeux
Noirs, a Paris-based ensemble per-
founing an updated version of
European roots music that's been
called "gypsy klezmer pop " — they
sing in Yiddish, Romanian and
French — appear 8 p.m. Wednesday,
Jan. 22; $12.50. (734) 761-1451.
Blues legend B.B. King, with spe-
cial guests the Bobby Blue Band, per-
forms 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, at
Detroit's Fox Theatre. $29.50-$49.50.
(248) 433-1515.
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19, on NBC. Check your
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local listings.
Carlin, with special guest
In a Live From Lincoln
Dennis Blair, offers his
Center broadcast, Perlman
unique take on the world
at the Penthouse features
7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18,
violinist and DSO
at the Detroit Opera
Principal Guest Conductor
House. $34.50-$42.50.
Itzhak Perlman perform-
(248) 645-6666.
ing with students and
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
alumni
of the Perlman
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Lincoln Center, 8 p.m.
Jewish-British director Mike Leigh
Wednesday, Jan. 22, on Detroit
helms All or Nothing, returning to the
Public Television-Channel 56. Check
milieu of Britain's working class and
your local listings.
the setting of some of his most power-
ful films (Secrets and Lies, High Hopes)
FAMILY FUN
in this 2002 work exploring the pas-
The Oak Park Recreation
sions of a group of neighbors living in
Department
sponsors Winterfest
South London public housing. The
2003, with horse-drawn coach rides,
movie screens 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday
hayrides, ice carving demonstra-
and Saturday and 4 and 7 p.m.
tions, music, games and refresh-
Sunday, Jan. 17-19, at the Detroit
ments, 12:30-3 p.m. Sunday, Jan.
Film Theatre. $6.50: (313) 833-3237.
19. (248) 691-7555.
Children's entertainer Robbo pro-
THE SMALL SCREEN vides
a fun afternoon of Jewish
. The stars' favorite awards show,
music and original compositions in
the Golden Globes honors perform-
a family-centered concert 3 p.m.
ances in movies and television and
Sunday, Jan. 19, at the Jewish
LAUGH LINES
`Saving Anne'
wo emerging musical theater
writers are imposing fantasy on
the devastating reality of Anne
Frank's story. Owen Robertson and Jay
Gaither, with their new play Saving
Anne, introduce a main character try-
ing to rescue the young woman with
the invention of a time machine.
The play, as a fully-staged workshop
production, seeks the reaction of audi-
ences when it is presented through
Jan. 26 in Ann Arbor.
The musical is the centerpiece of the
fourth annual Fireside Festival of New
Work planned by the Performance
Network. A variety of staged readings
are scheduled around Saving Anne.
"The deeper meaning of the play has
to do with dealing with reality and what
one person can do," says Daniel Walker,
Performance Network artistic director
and director of this production. "Peter,
the character at the center of the play,
begins a quest for the past and loses sight
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of the people around him.
"The songs in Saving Anne
have very beautiful lyrics
backed by appealing music,
and I found one song — Why
Me?' — particularly moving.
"This play has never been
seen acted out until now, but
because this is a workshop pro-
duction, there will be minimal
A scene from the musical workshop production
costumes, props and sets."
of "Saving Anne."
Henrietta Hermelin, who
has appeared at the Jewish
Ensemble Theatre (JET) as
staged workshop production.
well as Meadow Brook Theatre and
Heartlande Theatre Company pres-
the Gem, is part of the cast that
ents Rachel Urist's Shylock's Daughter,
includes Stan Bahorek, Cara Berg,
which gives a new perspective to
Isaac Ellis, Chris Gilbert, Alyson
Shakespeare's character as seen from
Grossman, Christine Kapusky, Donnie inside Shylock's house, 8 p.m. Sunday,
McNeil, Loren Molina, Annie Palmer
Jan. 19, directed by Geoffrey Sherman.
and Nick Yu.
JET introduces Adele Ahronheim's
Themes of Jewish interest also come
Lake Country, which presents a com-
across in two staged readings without
ing-of-age experience directed by
all the costumes and props of a fully
Chris Bremer, 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26.
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