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West Bloomfield High School students
that produces one-hour shows on
themes that are especially relevant to
teens, including smoking, eating disor-
iz Walters of West
ders, violence and sexual abuse. Called
Bloomfield has played
Project TRUST (Teaching and
Golda, the long-suffering
Reaching Using Students and Theater),
wife of Tevye the dairyman,
the teen troupe is co-sponsored by
in three different productions of
Jewish Family Service.
Fiddler on the Roof.
So far, Project TRUST has booked
She's acted in Damn Yankees, Milk
15 performances, including
and Honey and Invitation to
an April 28 appearance at
the March, sung her heart out Steve Sel I ofWest
Hillel Day School of
as Mama Rose in Gypsy and
Bloomfie Id, Linda
Metropolitan
Detroit.
went underground as a
Barsami an of Novi
For
Our
Daughters
will be
Russian spy in Pack of Lies.
and Liz Walters of
presented
May
13 at Temple
She is also a breast cancer
West Blo omfield
survivor.
rehearse their roles. Israel in West Bloomfield —
where cast member Walters
All this makes Walters a
works as administrative
perfect cast member for the
musical For Our Daughters, a multime- assistant. Like all other performances of
the musical, the Temple Israel show is
dia show about breast cancer and its
open to the public at no charge.
effects on its victims and their families.
"Last year, my daughter, Lisa, did
For Our Daughters is a project of
the 60-mile Avon Breast Cancer Walk
the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer
for me," says Walters, who was diag-
Institute's Community Education
nosed in January 2001. "She wore a T-
Department, which hired IlluminArt
shirt that said, 'For you, Mom' on the
Productions to produce the play.
front, and In Memory of Grandma
IlluminArt, an affiliate of the non-
Shirley' on the back."
profit Illusion Theater of
Minneapolis, was founded in August
by clinical social worker Arlene
In Rehearsal
Sorkin of West Bloomfield, who
About two dozen actors with various
serves as producing director. Patty
levels of experience began rehearsals
Ceresnie of West Bloomfield is the
with a sing-through on Jan. 12 at
company's artistic director.
Karmanos' Vaitkevicius Community
In addition to public performances,
Services Center in Southfield.
IlluminArt runs a theater program for
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