Arts Entertainment Best Bets Saturday and Sunday, July 12-13, at 8 p.m. Monday, July 14, $13.50. Detroit's Ford Field. $56. (248) 645-6666 (734) 761-1451. The Golden Rain Percussion Ensemble plays DTE Energy Music Theatre hosts Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello transcriptions of classics, ragtime, jazz compositions pop/rock musician Michael McDonald, takes the stage 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, and contemporary percussion literature on marim- 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12, $18.50- July 15, at Sterling Heights' Freedom bas, xylophones, timpani, gongs, bells and more than $32.50; Blues Traveler and Ziggy Hill Amphitheatre. $25-$35. 100 instruments belonging to the percussion family Marley, 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, $18.50- (248) 645-6666. 6:30 and 8 p.m. Friday, July 11, as part of Fine Arts $32.50; tribute show ABBA, The Music, The city of Oak Park presents Friday Night at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Free 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, $18.50- jazz/pop/R&B artist Kimmie Horne 7:30 with museum admission. (313) 833-7900. $29.50; classic rockers p.m. Tuesday, July 15, at Shepherd Park, Also at the DIA, a Brunch with Bach concert, GAIL ZIMMERMAN Queensryche/Dream Theatre, 7 p.m. at the corner of Church and Northfield. Arts d' Entertainment featuring sopranos Audrey Luna, pianist Brad Thursday, July 17, $23-$38; and Free. (248) 691-7555. Editor Caldwell and percussionist Allen Otte, takes place Lollapalooza 2003, with rocker-turned- Rock group Train, with special guest Sunday, July 13. Brunch at 11 a.m./concert at 11:30 observant Jew Perry Farrell and Jane's Matt Nathanson, takes the stage a.m.; $22 adults/$11 children under 12. Concert Addiction, Audioslave, Incubus and more, 12:30 Thursday, July 17, at Clutch Cargo's in Pontiac. only stairwell seating: $5. (313) 833-4005. p.m. Friday, July 18, $57.50. (248) 645-6666. Doors at 6 p.m. $25. (248) 645-6666. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs_Mostly Meadow Brook Music Festival presents con- The Community House Jazzfest in Mozart, a concert featuring the composer's Overture to ductor/trumpeter Doc Severinson, longtime Birmingham, featuring Sheila Landis, Brazilian Don Giovanni, Divertimento in D major and bandleader of the Tonight Show, leading the Love Affair, Alexander Zonjic and Friends, Gato Symphony No. 39 — with Haydn's Concerto for Cello DSO and vocalist Carmen Bradford in a tribute Barbieri, Thornetta Davis, Kenny Garrett, David thrown into the mix — 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, to Duke Ellington, 6 p.m. Sunday, July 13, $13- Benoit and more, all performing in Shain Park, July 18-19, at Meadow Brook Music Festival. $9-$55 $55; and boogie-woogie jazz pianist Michael runs Thursday-Saturday, July 17-19. Free. Info: advance/$14-$60 at the door. (248) 576-5111. Kaeshammer, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, (248) 644-5832. $10-$20. (248) 645-6666. The Ark in Ann Arbor offers bluegrass ensemble Robinella & the CC String Band, 7:30 p.m. ON THE STAGE Eminem performs to a home audience, with spe- Sunday, July 13, $13.50; and dance show Steve The Dearborn Summer Music Festival presents cial guests Missy Elliott and 50 Cent, 7:30 p.m. Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Side by Side with Sondheim, a review of music and lyrics by the legendary composer, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 11-12, at Dearborn's Ford away from simple, NICE JEWISH BOYS Community & Performing Arts Center. sweet pop songs to a $15-$16. (313) 943-2354. more cluttered, elec- The Dexter Community Players present composer t has been four years since of Wayne share a sharp tronic sound first Stephen Schwartz's Pippin, the pop-rock musical Fountains of Wayne and Ben pop sensibility that shown on his CD about the son of Charlemagne, 8 p.m. Fridays and Lee put out full-length albums, places emphasis on Breathing Tornados. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 11-13 and 18- and while the band and the solo melody and catchy The changes, though, 19, at Dexter High School, 2200 N. Parker Road at artist haven't previously toured hooks. should take nothing Shield, in Dexter. Ticket price TBA. (734) 426- together, their summer concert Welcome Interstate away from Lee's electri- 5060. jaunt is a match made in Managers picks up ing stage presence, a The Michigan Shakespeare Festival runs July 15- Hebrew school, as both Lee and right where Fountain skill he's been honing Aug. 3, in Ella Sharp Park in Jackson, Mich. For Fountains of Wayne's Adam of Wayne's Utopia since his first shows in more information, call (517) 788-5032. Schlesinger are former bar mitz- Parkway left off in Adam Schlesinger Sydney at age 13. The Actors Company stages the Detroit premiere vah boys. 1999. Their school-age of Fountains of Unlike previous Lee of Bat Boy: The Musical, a comedy/horror show Heralding the release of masterpiece paid horn- Wayne and Ben tours, it's unlikely the about a half boy/half bat creature who is discovered Fountains of Wayne's Welcome age to Coney Island Lee: An emphasis musician will be in a cave near Hope Falls, W Va., 8 p.m. Interstate Managers and Lee's Hey tattoos, planetarium accompanied by on melody and Thursdays-Saturdays, July 17-Aug. 1, at Village You. Yes You. (which was released laser shows and myriad actress Claire Danes, catchy hooks. Players Playhouse in Birmingham. $15-$18. last year in his native Australia teenage rites of pas- his girlfriend of six (248) 644-2075. but is just now coming out sage. Their new CD's years. Rumors have Stagecrafters Youtheatre mounts a production of stateside), the 16-date tour stops subjects skew a bit older. swirled that the Terminator 3: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 7 p.m. Thursday at Detroit's Saint Andrew's Hall It's stocked with characters Rise of the Machines star will and Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. for an all-ages show on with mind-numbing post-college convert to Judaism for her Sunday, July 17-20, at the Baldwin Theatre in Royal Wednesday, July 16. jobs and nascent alcohol prob- longtime beau, but they are as Oak. Featured performers include Joel Silverman of The pair make something of lems (no word on whether that yet unsubstantiated. Franklin, Jeffery Astrein of Huntington Woods, an ironic couple: Schlesinger is includes too much Manischewitz — Erin Podolsky Kayla Freedman of Oak Park and Jessica Phillips of 35 but — along with singer at the holiday table) — though West Bloomfield. $5-$7. (248) 541-6430. Chris Collingwood — often not before the first single, writes songs from a teenager's or "Stacy's Mom," can paint a early twentysomething's perspec- cocksure picture of a boy dating Fountains of Wayne and Ben FAMILY FUN tive; Lee is 24 but has been put- Lee play Saint Andrew's Hall a girl just to get a chance at her Dig up fossils, get dirty and discover everything ting out adult-sounding records in Detroit in an all-ages show mother. there is to know about dinosaurs during Dinosaur for nearly a decade. 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 16. For Lee, Hey You. Yes You. is Days, running 1-4 p.m. Saturdays, July 12 and Aug. But no matter what their sub- $15. (248) 645-6666 something of a departure, con- 9, at Cranbrook Institute of Science. Free with ject matter, Lee and Fountains tinuing the musician's move museum admission. (248) 645-3210. CLASSICAL NOTES PoP/RocK/JAzz/FoLK I 7/ 1 1 2003 54 FYI: 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, 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 gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at 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.