• Homemade Soups & Salads • Coney Specials WOODY ON STAGE 1111 he Woody Allen comedy Play It Again, Sam will get a little doctoring when it's performed next week by Pontiac Theatte IV. Dermatologist Jeffrey Shuster, a Temple Israel member, will be the director, and pediatrician Udi Kapen, a one-time Congregation Shaarey Zedek performer, will have the main role. "The play has a nice, uplifting mes- sage — be yourself," says Shuster, who signed on with community theater after his now college-age children got involved. "This group is very family-ori- ented, and my wife, Rhonda, is helping as a producer. Our daughter, Amanda, is in the cast, and our son, Daniel, will be , working with the technical gear.' Play It Again, Sam, also a movie, is about a drama critic who has just bro- ken up with his wife. In fantasy, the critic asks Humphrey Bogart for advice to the lovelorn. "I like taking a play from a bare KADIMA FUNDRAISER A benefit for Kadima will be part of the Fisher Theatre run of Beauty and the Beast, the Tony Award-winning musical coming to town with stars Jennifer Shrader and Roger Befeler. Kadima, which provides daily-living services for those dealing with mental ill- ness, has reserved seats for the matinee performance May 4. "What I like about the play is its compendium of musical styles," com- poser Alan Menken told The Jewish stage to a full-scale production," says Shuster, making his directorial debut with the company that first put him in front of an audience with the musical - Oliver. "I also like the cama- raderie and the chance to express myself in a new way." Kapen, who has been expressing himself on stage since attending Andover High School, is the main character, Allan Felix. Active with the Bloomfield Players, Kapen took a seven-year break from acting while he was in medical school and doing his residency. "I've had some of the most fun while acting," the pediatrician says. "I bring some of the performing arts into the examining room to help distract children from their illnesses." Play It Again, Sam will be per- formed 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, May 1-3, at Pontiac Northern High School, 1051 Arlene. $8/$7 students and sen- iors. (248) 737-9039. News when the show first appeared in Detroit. "When I hear my own score on the stage, stylistically it reminds me of so many musicals I grew up with." Beauty and the Beast runs April 29- May 18 at Detroit's Fisher Theatre. Show times are 8 p.m. Tuesdays- Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays (no evening performance on May 9), with an addi- tional matinee 1 p.m. Thursday, May 8. $22.50-$62.50. (313) 872-1000. The Kadima benefit performance, 2 p.m. Sunday, May 4, is $85 per per- son. 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A The Creation, which made its Viennese premiere in 1799, is a portrait of the seven days of the world's beginning as explained in Genesis with some poetic reinforcement from Milton's Paradise Lost. The Haydn piece begins with a depiction of chaos before the world was formed and brings extraordinary effects with a burst of orchestral glory at the announcement, And there was light!" De Haven, music director and organist at Christ Church in Grosse Pointe, will be working with other soloists as well: soprano Elizabeth Parcells, tenor Curtis Peters and bass singer John Paul White. The Creation will be performed 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township. $10/$8 students and seniors/free to military personnel. (248) 851-1100, Ext. 3150. 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