Best Bets
Macomb Center for the Performing Arts hosts the
11 fiddlers and violinists of Bowfire, performing in
various musical styles from classical to bluegrass, 7:30
p.m. Monday, March 8. $32-$40. (586) 286-2222.
Conductor Neeme Jarvi leads the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 4, and
works by Lanner and Mozart, 8 p.m. Thursday and
Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 11-13, at the
Max M. Fisher Music Center. Soprano Heidi Grant
Murphy joins the DSO. $19-$105. (313) 576-5111.
Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular opera, The
Mikado comes to the stage of the Ford Community
and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn 8 p.m.
Friday, March 12, $29-$38, (313) 943-1354; and to
the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 20, $36-$45, (586) 286-2222.
the foundation. A Collector's Gift Set
at Detroit's Masonic Temple Theatre.
includes the film's soundtrack and a book,
$19.50-$59.50. (248) 645-6666.
Schindler's List: Images of the Steven
Straight from the New York stage, David
Speilberg Film. Information:
Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly Akimbo comes
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to Ann Arbor's Performance Network. The
play, about a teenage girl who's fed up with
her family, bored with school, ready for a
FAMILY FUN
new adventure and afflicted with a rare
disease that ages her so rapidly she looks
Sara Smith Productions Youth Theatre
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like a 60-year-old woman, will be per-
presents Fiddler on the Roof-Junior,
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formed March 11-April 11. Call for show
directed by Mitch Master, 10:30 a.m. and
times. $22.50-$27.50. (734) 663-0681.
2 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 6 p.m. Sunday,
St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild of Cranbrook stages
March 6-7, at Birmingham's Community House.
Jeff Daniels' The Vast Difference, a comedy set in
Proceeds benefit the youth theater. $8 advance/$10 at
Detroit about George, an airline steward at a cross-
the door. (248) 644-5832.
roads, March 12-27. Julie Yolles of Birmingham plays
George's wife, Rita. Call for show times. $11-$13.
(248) 644-0527.
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
DANCE FEVER
Starring Monica Mancini (Henry's daughter) and
the Henry Mancini Institute Alumni Orchestra,
Mancini at the Movies, a multimedia tribute to the
Academy Award-winning composer, visits Macomb
Center for the Performing Arts 3 p.m. Sunday,
March 7. $24-$32. (586) 286-2222.
Canadian folksinger Garnet Rogers and southwest-
ern songwriter Tom Russell take the stage at The Ark
in Ann Arbor 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 7. $17.50.
(734) 764-1451.
Neil Young and his longtime band Crazy Horse
make a stop 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, at Detroit's
Fox Theatre in support of his latest CD, the concept
album Greendale. $39.50-$115. (248) 433-1515.
Royal Oak Music Theatre hosts rocker Melissa
Etheridge 8 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, March 9-11,
$75 general admission; and vocal jazz diva Diane
Schuur, 8 p.m. Friday, March 12, $20-$35. Doors at
6:30 p.m. (248) 645-6666.
American Idol stars Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken
perform 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11, at Joe Louis
Arena. $35-$45. (248) 645-6666.
The Merce Cunningham Dance Company cele-
brates its 50th anniversary, performing works by its
iconoclastic choreographer/artistic director in two
programs at Ann Arbor's Power Center, 8 p.m.
Friday, March 12, and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 13,
the latter with live music played by the Kronos
Quartet. $16-$44. (734) 764-2538.
CLASSICAL NOTES
JEWISH MUSIC
Congregation B'nai Moshe hosts its Annual
Cantor's Concert, an evening of Ladino and Yiddish
music featuring Cantor Earl Berris, the Zamir
Chorale of Metro Detroit, cantorial soloist Zach
Mondrow and the Klezmaniacs (the B'nai Moshe
klezmer band), 7 p.m. Sunday, March 14, at the syn-
agogue in West Bloomfield. Free and open to the
community (unreserved seating)/special reserved seat-
ing for patrons ($100: four tickets) and sponsors
($50: two tickets). Reception and light refreshments
follow the concert. (248) 788-0600.
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Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera
Jesus Christ Superstar will be performed 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m.
Saturday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 9-14,
THE BIG SCREEN
The JCC's Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival (run-
ning April 25-May 6 in Commerce, Birmingham,
Ann Arbor and Windsor) hosts a pre-festival screen-
ing of The Nazi Officer's Wife, based on Edith
Hahn Beer's autobiography of the same name, 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, March 10, at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield. $8/advance
tickets: call (248) 432-5577.
NEW ON DVD
Just in time for Purim, Shazak Productions has
released The Queen of Persia, a new animated fea-
ture about Queen Esther that is "authentic to biblical
sources but with a sense of humor." For more infor-
mation about the film and its accompanying book,
go to wwvv.shazak.com .
Universal Studios Home Video releases Schindler's
List on DVD on March 9, as part of an overall cele-
bration of the film's legacy, including the 10th
anniversary of Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the
Shoah Visual History Foundation and the debut of
"Giving Voice," a reality-based program for high-
schoolers addressing bias and intolerance (for more
information, go to www.films.com or
wwwvhf.org/givingvoice) . The DVD features bonus
materials including a 77-minute documentary pro-
duced by the Shoah Foundation titled Voices From
the List, which offers never-before-seen testimonies
from actual Schindler survivors; and The Shoah
Foundation Story with Steven Spielberg, a behind-
the-scenes look at the work and accomplishments of
Jacob Rosen of Bloomfield Hills, Jason Lubin of
Farmington Hills, Rebecca Starks of Huntington
Woods and Tiffany Cantle of Bloomfield Township in
"Fiddler on the Roof-Junior"
THE ART SCENE
Five studio artists, including Judy Vine, hold an
open house 1-3 p.m. Friday, March 12, on the 4th
floor of 196 Oakland Ave. (Cesar Chavez), in
Pontiac. Information: (248) 961-4623.
Cranbrook Art Museumpresents a tour of the
Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Sara and Melvin
Maxwell Smith home, led by Dorie Schwedel of the
Smith Foundation, 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday, March 13.
$15 members/$20 nonmembers. Register by March
11: (248) 645-3314.
WHATNOT
The Southfield Public Library holds a Salute to
Sandy Schreier, the metro Detroit-based French cou-
ture, American fashion and Hollywood costume col-
lector who personally collected books for the library's
new "Style" section and urged her fashion friends to
contribute volumes as well, 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
March 10, in the Meeting Room of the library.
Preview the collection while enjoying some of Sandy's
favorite foods. Free. Information: (248) 796-4224.
Leukemia, Research, Life Inc. hosts an Evening of
Hope with Regis Philbin, beginning 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 13, at Dearborn's Ford Community
and Performing Arts Center. $85-$125/call (313)
943-2354; VIP tickets and sponsorships/call Lynn,
(734) 457-5661. El
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