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and 3 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21 23.
DANCE FEVER
$23.50-$37.50. (313) 963-2366.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with
Detroit's
Matrix
Theatre
Company
Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance, which helped
Leon Bates on piano and the Brazeal
performs Play and Rockabye, two short
catapult Irish dancing into the international spot-
Dennard Chorale, celebrates African-
plays by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett,
light, returns to Detroit's Fox Theatre 8 p.m. Friday,
American composers and musicians, and
8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 4 p.m.
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 6 p.m. Sunday,
plays George Gershwin's Concerto in F,
Sundays, Feb. 28-March 16. $12. (313)
Feb. 28-March 2. $15.75-$60.75. (248) 433-1515.
8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday,
967-0999.
Feb. 22-23, at Orchestra Hall. $15-$56.
Wayne State University's Bonstelle
(313) 576-5111.
LAUGH LINES
Theatre
mounts a production of French
Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Jewish, and gay, comic/actor Jason Stuart takes the
playwright Moilere's The Imaginary
Arts Entertainment
hosts Grand Rapids Symphony cellist
stage
at Joey's Comedy Club/Paisano's in Dearborn
Editor
Invalid 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and
Nancy Steltmann and area pianist Mary
8:30
p.m.
Thursday, 8:15 and 10:45 p.m. Friday and
2 p.m. Sundays, Feb. 28-March 9. $8-
Louise Vetrano, playing works by Dvorak,
Saturday
and
7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27-March 2. $8-
$14. (313) 577-2960.
Faure, Chopin and more, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22.
$12 show only/$20.95-$24.95 dinner show. (313)
Rochester's
Avon
Players
stage
Paul
Rudnick's
$10-$25/$5 students. (734) 769-2999.
584-8885.
comedy I Hate Hamlet 8 p.m. Fridays and
Israeli-born Maestro Arie Lipsky and the Ann
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Feb. 28-March 15.
Arbor Symphony Orchestra take audience members
AT THE MOVIES
$13. (248) 608-9077.
on an hour-long tour of "Dances of the World" 4
Hosted by the University of Michigan and the
The Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, at the Michigan Theater in
University Musical Society, the Royal Shakespeare
Arts
screens Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman's
Ann Arbor. $15 adults/$5 children. (734) 994-4801.
Company returns to Ann Arbor in the second
Derrida,
a documentary about the controversial
The Ark in Ann Arbor presents Israeli-born cellist
installment of its five-year residency on the U-M
French
philosopher
and "Father of Deconstruction,"
Matt Haimovitz, playing the final three of Bach's six
campus with performances March 1-16. The com-
7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24. $6.50. (313) 833-3237.
cello suites, 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24. $17.50. (734)
pany performs Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of
The Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield
761-1451.
Windsor and Coriolanus and Salman Rushdie's
screens
the Midwest premiere of the documentary film
Performing a new program of Jewish songs and
Midnight's Children at Ann Arbor's Power Center.
Let's
Get
Frank, depicting the life of U.S. Rep. Barney
more, Michael Touretsky's Moscow Jewish Choir
$30-$60.
Call
for
show
times;
(734)
764-2538.
For
Frank
and
the challenges he faces as a gay man and a
sings in seven languages and takes the stage at
a
complete
list
of
residency
events,
including
two
Jew,
7:30
p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 26. The film was pre-
Southfield's Millennium Theatre 8 p.m. Tuesday,
public events with Salman Rushdie, go to
viewed at last year's JCC Lenore Marwil Jewish Film
Feb. 25. $25.50. Tickets available at the door. For
www.umich.edu/pres/rsc.
Festival. $8. For tickets, call (248) 432-5577.
advance tickets, call (248) 967-2146.
Regarded as one of the best orchestras in the world,
the Vienna Philharmonic, making its first appearance
in the Detroit area since Leonard Bernstein conduct-
ed the ensemble at Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium, per-
When the Jewish News ran its
um. Presented by the Pro Musica appeals to me, because he's so
forms 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at the Detroit Opera
first article about Russian-born
House. The orchestra will play Schubert's Symphony
Society of Detroit, Mishura will
passionate."
mezzo-soprano Irina Mishura in
No. 4 and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 ("New World").
be accompanied by pianist Kevin
After an intermission, she will
the early 1990s, the headline was
$30-$100. (734) 764-2538.
Bylsma in a concert that com-
return
to the hall for five operatic
"Waiting in the Wings."
bines art song with opera.
arias by French and Italian com-
At the time, Mishura, who'd
Many of the selections for the
posers, including selections from
emigrated from Moldavia in 1992,
Feb. 26 recital also
Saint-Saens' Samson
was "sitting in an apartment in
Detroit's Fox Theatre hosts a '70s Soul Jam, fea-
can be heard on
et Dalila and Bizet's
Oak Park, with nothing to do."
turing The Stylistics, The Chi-Lites, The
Mishura's recently
Carmen.
"I would sing at parties, at a
Dramatics and more, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22.
released CD, In the
Mishura has sung
restaurant in Livonia, sometimes
$27.50-$37.50. (248) 433-1515.
Silence of the Night
the title roles in
at [Congregation] Shaarey
The Ark in Ann Arbor presents New York City
(VAI Audio;
both these
Zedek," Mishura remembers.
singer/songwriter Kenny Smith, 8 p.m.
$16.99).
immensely popular
The days of waiting in the
Wednesday, Feb. 26, $12.50; and Irish-American
Although the song
operas for the
wings are long over. Mishura spent by Sergei
singer Maura O'Connell, 8 p.m. Friday, Feb 28,
Michigan Opera
a grand total of three weeks in her
$20. (734) 761-1451.
Rachmaninoff that
Theatre, as well as
Bloomfield Hills "home during all
Composer/pianist Marvin Hamlisch conducts
gives the CD its
in opera houses
of 2002. The rest of the time, she
and performs music from his Pulitzer and Oscar-
title is not on the
throughout the
was rehearsing and performing in
winning scores from A Chorus Line and The Way We
program, Mishura
world.
Were in Detroit Symphony Pops concerts 1:30 and
star roles on opera stages from
will sing four of the
have
have been in
Pro Musica features opera
Munich to Japan to New York's
8 p.m. Thursday, 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Russian Romantic's
close to 200 differ-
star
Irina
Mishura
in
a
Metropolitan Opera House.
and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27-March 2, at Orchestra
other works, along
ent performances
rare recital appearance.
On Feb. 26, fresh from a run
Hall. $15-$55. (313) 576-5111.
with songs by
of Carmen, starting
as Azucena in Verdi's Il Trovatore
Tchaikovsky, Botari
in Russia," she
at the Met, the internationally
and that most prolific of all coin- says.
ON THE STAGE
acclaimed diva makes a rare
posers, Anonymous.
Last summer, she sang the role
appearance on the recital stage
The Jackie Wilson Story (My Heart is Crying,
"These are songs I love to do,
of Bizet's ultimate femme fatale in
with an 8 p.m. concert at the
Crying ...) has been extended through this weekend,
songs that inspire me," Mishura
Italy's Arena di Verona, an outdoor
Detroit Institute of Arts auditori- says. "Rachmaninoff especially
with shows 8 p.m. Friday, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday
venue that seats 20,000 people.
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