entertainment Best Bets MUSICAL NorrEs Arguably the world's foremost interpreter of Bartok, The Takacs Quartet joins the popular Hungarian folk ensemble Muzsikas for a program of chamber music with Hungarian influences 8 p.m. Saturday, March 29, at Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor; $20-$40. At 4 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at Rackham, Muzsikas goes solo with vocalist Marta Sebestyen in a concert devoted to Gypsy folk tunes; $16-$30. (734) 764-2538. Michigan Performing Arts hosts the Michigan- based ensemble Three Men and a Tenor 8 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at Southfield's Millennium Centre. $28-$45. (248) 557-7529. The Southfield Philharmonic begins its spring sea- son with a benefit chamber music performance of the Southfield String Quartet, featuring violinists Joseph Striplin and Greg Staples, violist Beatriz Staples and cellist David Levine, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at Southfield's Ambassador Hotel (formerly the Michigan Inn). A champagne afterglow follows. Tickets are $50 and must be purchased in advance/proceeds benefit the Southfield Philharmonic. Season tickets (five concerts) are available at a discounted rate of $100. (248) 569-9420. Violinist Patrick Dalton Holmes performs in a Cranbrook Music Guild concert 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills. $30. (248) 644-6352. Wayne State University brings Italian composer Ada Gentile to the campus' Schaver Music Recital Hall for a New Music Concert, followed by a strolling recep- tion, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9. $25/benefits WSU Department of Music. (313) 577-1795. POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House hosts pianist Misha Mengelberg and his Dutch avant-garde jazz ensemble, the Instant Composer's Pool Orchestra, 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday, March 29, $15-$30; and corn- poser/soprano Susan Botti, a specialist in the perform- ance of contemporary music by diverse composers, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 5, $15-$20. (734) 769-2999. Longtime Eurythmics vocalist Annie Lennox brings her world tour to Detroit 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in the Masonic Temple Theatre. $89.50-$99.50. (248) 645-6666. • Queen of folk Joan Baez, with special guest Tracy Grammer, graces the stage of Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3. $25-$38.50. (248) 763-8587. He's shed his amazing Technicolor dreamcoat, but Donny Osmond tours to Detroit's Fox Theatre in support of his new CD, Somewhere in Time, 8 p.m. Friday, April 4. $37.50-$55. (248) 433-1515. The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts singer-songwriter Billy Jonas 8 p.m. Saturday, April 5, $12.50; and 1 p.m. Sunday; April 6, in a family concert, $7. (734) 761-1451. Australia's garage rock foursome The Vines take the stage Tuesday, April 8, at Detroit's St. Andrew's Hall. Doors at 7 p.m. $17. (248) 645-6666. Described as singing like Edith Piaf and looking 3 ,1, 8 2003 64 Rejoicings, in which hope emerges for post-apartheid South Africa, April 3-25. Call for show times. $17. (313) 868-1347. Chelsea's Purple Rose Theatre presents the world premiere of Randall Godwin's adult comedy Hope For Corky April 3- May 31. Call for show times. $17.50- $32.50. (734) 433-7673. JEWISH MUSIC Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Congregation B'nai Moshe hosts 2 Pacific takes the stage 8 p.m. Friday, Cantorz and the Kidz, featuring B'nai Moshe GAIL ZIM MERMAN March 28, at Macomb Center for the Cantor Earl Berris and Congregation Chaye Arts t.:7. En tertainment Arts, $29-$38, (586) 286- Performing Eel hop Olam Cantor Stephen Dubov, accompanied and 4 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at 2222 ; by Marty Mandelbaum and the Kidz Klez Ford Community & Dearborn's Band of Michigan, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at Performing Arts Center, $40-$45, (313) 943-2354. Congregation B'nai Moshe in West Bloomfield. Free of Michigan's Department of The University and open to the public. (248) 788-0600. Rodgers and of Musical Theater mounts a production The Jewish Community Council's Detroit Jewish Thursday-Saturday Oklahoma 8 p.m. Hammerstein's Initiative (DJI) presents an interfaith concert, cele- and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 10-13, at the Power Center brating the theme "We Shall Overcome" and the in Ann Arbor. $7-$20. (734) 764-2538. holidays of Passover and Easter, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard concludes Apri1s ,6, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in the Hilberry Theatre season, running in repertory Southfield. The multi-denominational MDA April 11-May 17. Call for show times. $12-$20. Fellowship Choir and the klezmer ensemble (313) 577-2972. Schmaltz will perform. Free and open to the com- munity; donations welcome. (248) 642-5393. like Marlene Dietrich, French chanteuse Patricia Kaas presents a concert of French chanson 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, at Southfield's Millennium Center Theatre. $60-$100. (248) 557-7529. LAUGH LINES ON THE STAGE Dearborn's Henry Ford Community College pres- ents a 3-D stereoscopic performance of William Shakespeare's The Tempest 8 p.m. Wednesdays- Saturdays, April 2-26, in the campus' MacKenzie Fine Arts Center. $15. (313) 845-6478. Wayne State University's Departments of Theater and English host three one-act plays, winners of the Louise Heck-Rabi Scholarship Award Competition, facilitated by Dr. Phoebe Mainster and Dr. David Magidson, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, April 3-12, in the Studio Theatre, located downstairs from the Hilberry. Free. (313) 577-2972. Detroit Repertory Theatre stages the Midwest pre- miere of playwright Athol Fugard's Sorrows and Margaret Cho brings her "Revolution Tour" to Detroit's State Theater 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3. $30-$45. (248) 645-6666. Comedian Dave Chappelle visits Ann Arbor with his "Dave Chappelle Is Blackzilla" tour 8 and 11 p.m. Saturday, April 5. $28.50-$34. (248) 645-6666. MADtv's Alex Borstein journeys to the Ann Arbor District Library to discuss "Comedy and the Television Industry" 7-8:30 p.m. Friday, April 11. Free. (734) 327-4560. THE BIG SCREEN The Redford Theatre hosts A Three Stooges Festival, featuring six 20-minute two-reelers, 8 p.m. Friday and 2 "WIT HISTORY LESSON Four historians will be featured in a university-sponsored panel discussion that supplements an exhibit about Michigan Jews. "MiChigan Jewry During the 1930s & 1940s: Depression, War & Holocaust" is the topic that builds on the exhibit "Uneasy Years: Michigan Jewry During Depression & War" at Michigan State University. The panel will explore the issues 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 30, in the MSU Museum Auditorium in East Lansing. The exhibit of photos and mementoes of the times will be at the museum until June 15 and then move to other areas of the state. "This will 04 0 be an opportu- nity for us to _9 , . think together about what Michigan's Jews confront- ed during that Boy Scout Troop 23, a elvish troop in Defroit time," says panel, will review the range of Ken Waltzer, professor of history responses to the rise of Nazism and director of Integrative and anti-Semitism surrounding Studies in the Arts and World War II. • Humanities at MSU. "We're "My perspectie is that what took working on covering beyond place across the ocean was of high what's in the exhibit." concern, and Michigan Jewry did Waltzer, who helped find the well in the way they protested Nazi displayed items and organize the 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, FYI: gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 304-8885; or e-mail to least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.