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T

wo acts in this season's Ann
Arbor Summer Festival
may be familiar, but their
programs are bound to be
new The material has to be fresh
because it's ripped — and often nip-
pingly satiric — from the headlines.
Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me, the
humorous news quiz show from
National Public Radio, will bring
some panel stalwarts to the Power
Center stage 8 p.m. Thursday, June
26, for a taping that will air 3-4 p.m.
Saturday, June 28, on 91.7-FM.
The Capitol Steps, the comic act
taking its independent spin from gov-
ernment goings-on, will be on the
same stage 5 and 8 p.m. Friday, July 4,
as part of an Independence Day show.

Both groups, with Jewish performers,
are part of the celebration of the festival's
20th anniversary season, which runs June
13-July 7. Paid performances indoors are
all at the Power Center, while free pro-
grams of live acts and films are offered
on the Top of the Park next door.
Among the many headline acts are
the Preservation Hall Jazz Band,
Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats, flat-picker
guitarist Doc Watson and a choreo-
graphed modern musical piece with
classical ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov.
"I had a special interest in finding a
great mix for this anniversary run,"
says Evy Warshawski, in her fourth
year serving as executive director of
the festival and occasionally playing
Jewish mother when performers com-
municate problems that could affect
their appearances.
"I wanted to bring back favorites,

have family shows and offer some new
entertainment. The artists who have
been here before are coming back with
fresh material."
Warshawski, who moved to Ann
Arbor to work for the festival, appreci-
ates the support she has gotten. Her
current operating budget of $1 million
has grown from the $300,000 allot-
ment in the festival's first year.
"There are so many good people
who support the arts in Ann Arbor,
and I'm glad to say the Jewish com-
munity is part of that," she says.
Adam Felber, one of the panelists on
Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me, comes from
a Jewish and humor-driven family. His
sister, Susan, writes horoscopes for a
Web site and takes her act on the road.
"I think the Bush administration is a
wonderful target for satire in the ways
his people try to simplify complex

