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Coming Home
Actor Ted Raimi returns to Michigan for
a Meadow Brook Theatre production,
and a new business opportunity.
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SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News
tion, I know it's going to be good. He
was my drama professor at the
University of Detroit, and I got out of
another project to do this."
ed Raimi is spoofing an
outsider at the same time
he's actually coming home.
Family Legacy
Raimi, a Michigan-bred
Raimi became excited about acting by
and trained entertainer recently seen
picking up on the interest of his older
in the film Spider-Man, has the star-
ring role in the Meadow
Brook production of
Larry Shue's comedy
The Foreigner.
During his offstage
hours as the play runs
through March 9,
Raimi is getting ready
for a longer-running
return to the area. He is
setting up a residence
and new music video
business while still
maintaining his
Hollywood household.
"Charlie, the title
character [in The
Ted Raimi, as Charlie, and Joey Bybee, as Ellard
Foreigner], is good for
Simms, in Larry Shue's "The Foreigner" at Meadow
me because there's a lot
Brook Theatre.
of silliness, and I love
being silly on stage,"
brother, Sam, a producer, director,
says Raimi, 37, who grew up in
Franklin and now has an apartment in writer and actor whose direction tal-
ents brought last year's Spider-Man to
Detroit.
"Charlie is an uptight Englishman at audiences in record-breaking numbers.
Sam Raimi wrote and filmed
the end of his rope, and his friend
makeshift productions while still a
arranges a resort vacation so- Charlie
youngster, encouraging the participa-
won't have to talk to anyone.
tion of family and neighborhood
"Charlie pretends he can't speak
friends.
English, and this [pretext] only leads
Among the people who became
to incredible and funny problems.
involved with Sam's homemade pro-
Charlie uncovers hi-jinx at the resort,
ductions was eldest brother, Ivan, now
and the play is about these comic
a doctor living in Michigan. Ivan
experiences."
Raimi tried his hand at writing and
Raimi, who has been cast as the
directing while living in California for
comic character Joxer in the TV series
some years and has worked with both
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and
brothers on film and TV projects.
the spinoff Xena: Warrior Princess, is
The only Raimi sibling who did not
onstage for the first time in 10 years.
get involved with filmmaking is sister
"I was sitting around in my living
Andrea Raimi Rubin.
room in Los Angeles and got a phone
Ted Raimi, after graduating from
call from David Regal, who's directing
the play," Raimi explains about getting Birmingham Groves High School,
studied performing arts at Oakland
his current role. "He told me about
Community College, Michigan State
working on The Foreigner and asked if
University, New York University and
I'd play Charlie.
the University of Detroit Mercy.
"If David is assembling a produc-