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Violinist Joseph Striplin conducts the Southfield
Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Egmont Overture,
Mendelssohn's Incidental Music to a Midsummer Nights
Dream and Copland's Rodeo 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May
23, at the Southfield Civic Center. In addition, Ann
Arbor Huron High School student Joachim
Stepniewski, winner of this year's Levine Student
Concerto Competition, will solo with the orchestra in
Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. I. $5-$10/tickets avail-
able at the door. (313) 871-2936.
Michigan Opera Theatre holds a fashion show and
benefit, featuring vintage and contemporary designs by
world-renowned designer Zandra Rhodes (who'll be on
hand for the festivities), 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27,
at the Detroit Opera House. The fashion show will be
produced by Linda Dresner. The event also features a
cocktail reception and strolling supper, beginning at 6
p.m., a live auction and entertainment by the cast of
MOT's production of Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers,
which opens June 5 at the Detroit Opera House. $200.
Seats are limited; reserve early. (313) 237-3425.

POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK

With the aim of meshing hip-hop youth culture with
educational and political issues, Russell Simmons and
other top hip-hop artists visit Detroit for the 2004
Detroit Hip-Hop Summit, noon-4 p.m. Saturday, May
22, at the Fox Theatre. $10/portion of the proceeds
benefits the Communication and Media Arts High
School of Detroit. (248) 433-1515.
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts all-female Australian
folk-pop trio The Bluehouse, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 22,
$13.50; and Ann Arbor roots musicians Bill Kirchen,

Celebrity Jews

NATE BLOOM
Special to the Jewish News

he National Foundation for Jewish Culture has
announced its 15th annual awards, to be pre-
sented June 7 in New York.
Honorees this year include playwright Wendy-
Wasserstein ( The Sisters Rosenzweig) and author

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Nate Bloom, editor ofwww.Jewhoo.com can be
reached at Middleoftheroadl@aol.com

students, all under the direction of Martin
George Bedard and Rich Dishman, 8 p.m.
Katz and Brent Wagner. $27-$52. (734)
Thursday, May 27, $15. (734) 761-1451.
994-4801 or (248) 645-6666.
Joining the Detroit Symphony Pops,
Meadow Brook Theatre's 2004-2005 sea-
Broadway stars Judy Kaye (Mamma Mitt)
son
includes a nod to the celebration of 350
and Mark Jacoby (Man of the La Mancha)
years
of Jewish life in America. Among its
showcase Broadway songs woven together to
offerings, the Rochester-based theater com-
tell the story of a couple who meet and then
pany will stage Alfred Urhy's Driving Miss
experience the ups and downs of romance in
Daisy, co-produced with the National
The Broadway Concert: He Said, She Said,
Foundation for Jewish Culture; the
10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.
GAIL ZIM MERMAN
Michigan
professional premiere of And
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Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday,
Then
They
Came For Me: Remembering
May 27-30, at Detroit's Max M. Fisher
the
World
of
Anne Frank; a co-production
Music Center. $15-$86. (313) 576-5111.
of The White Rose with Oakland University that is
Classic rocker. Eddie Money takes the stage at DTE
scheduled to bring in Anne Franks stepsister, Eva
Energy Music Theatre 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 28.
Schloss, to speak; and The World Goes 'Round, by the
$27.50 pavilion/$17.50 lawn. (248) 645-6666.
prolific Jewish songwriting team of Kander and Ebb.
The
season also includes Yasmina Reza's Art, Charles
ON THE STAGE
Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Noel Coward's Private
Stagecrafters mounts a production of Rodgers and
Lives. MBT is lowering its tickets prices as well; single
Hammerstein's South Pacific, under the musical direc-
seat prices are as low as $20, and subscribers can see five
tion of Marty Mandelbaum, through June 6 at Royal
shows for as low as $89. Those who subscribe before
Oak's Baldwin Theatre. Performances are 8 p.m.
June 7 can also purchase discounted tickets to Golf
Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, with an
The Musical, the Off-Broadway hit that comes to
additional performance Thursday, May 27. $16-$18.
MBT Aug. 25-Sept. 19. (248) 377-3300.
(248) 541-6430.
The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and Michigan
Theater, in honor of its 75th anniversary, present a
THE BIG SCREEN
concert-style production of Leonard Bernstein's inven-
The Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of
tive theater score Candide, based on the comic Voltaire
Arts
screens The Saddest Music in the World (Canada
satire, 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 22-23,
—
2003
— Guy Maddin), a comedy set in Winnipeg
at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. Appearing in
during
the
Great Depression in which a beer baroness
the production are internationally acclaimed mezzo-
(Isabella
Rossellini)
decides to boost sales by sponsor-
soprano Frederica von Stade, Broadway singer-actor
ing a worldwide musical competition to find the sad-
Harvey Evans, the AASO and U-M musical theater

Anne Roiphe. Presenters include play-
wright Tony Kushner and author Katie
Roiphe, the daughter of Anne and her hus-
band, Pulitzer-winning biographer Justin
Kaplan. Anne Roiphe, by the way, is the
great-niece of Sigmund Freud.

The Foundation was a favorite cause of the
just-departed Alan King, who was honored
in 1998 as the first winner of the "Alan
King Award for Jewish Humor."
Another of King's causes was the Friars
Club, the entertainers group. King worked
hard to attract young comedians to the club.

Alan King

As noted by Roger Friedman of
Fox News, King was a mentsh who
could take a jab as well as give one.
No one laughed harder when Susie
Essman got off this line at a Friars
Club roast: "There's Alan King. Alan,
did you ever think you'd live so long
that your prostate would be bigger
than your ego?"
King told Friedman that "she killed
with that joke" and that he'd use it
himself. ❑

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