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 vvvvw.universalstudios.com . 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 GAIL ZIMMERMAN like a 60-year-old woman, will be per- presents Fiddler on the Roof-Junior, Arts c Lifi' Editor 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. ON THE STAGE 0 AA 3/ 5 2004 46 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 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.