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Grammy Award and

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Fisher Theatre
September 8-12

Tony Award winner

Robert Goulet returns

to the show that

made him a star on

Broadway, now playing

the King in the musical

Camelot.

SPECIAL WEEKDAY MATINEE THURS., SEPT. 9 AT 1:00 PM

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"I love the show, the storyline and
the music," says Rae, 32, who grew up
in Toledo and did graduate work at the
Cleveland Institute of Music. "I love
every character and feel for each one
within his or her theatrical reality."
The play has to do with the marriage
of Guenevere (Teri Hansen) to King
Arthur, who reigns over the Knights of
the Round Table as they promote
goodness and gentility. Complicating
the lives of the royal couple is Sir
Lancelot (Nat Chandler), who becomes
part of a romantic triangle and the
character originally portrayed by
Goulet on Broadway.
Rae, in the touring production since
its launch, has performed in Atlanta,
Kansas City, Memphis and Charlotte.
"The only other show I've toured
with was a children's production about
Anne Frank," Rae says. "It was a good
first look at Anne Frank's story.
Although we were not in Detroit, we
were all over the country and in
Canada."

Interlochen To U-M

Rae's commitment to theater came in
the seventh grade, just after she trans-
ferred from a Hebrew day school to a
public school. A student musical the-
ater piece inspired her to try her own
talents.
"I loved singing in the choir and
wanted to be in an after-school group,"
Rae recalls. "My teacher fostered the
interest and asked if I wanted to take
voice lessons. Later on, he was a teacher
at Interlochen Arts Camp [in
Michigan] and suggested that I enroll.
"Through Interlochen, I auditioned
for a scholarship at the University of
Michigan and won. I graduated in
1993 and went straight into grad
school. I decided to pursue light opera
and musical theater and started audi-
tioning. I got a job at a dinner-theater
in Florida, was cast in a program at
Toledo Opera and then moved to New
York."
Rae, while doing office temp work to
supplement her show business income,
has enjoyed a variety of theatrical
assignments. She worked on Gilbert
and Sullivan projects in New York City,
won the lead role in The Boyfriend on
Long Island, had a major part in
Fiddler on the Roof in Virginia and was
cast into an Andrew Lloyd Webber
revue on a cruise ship.
"New York is where the important
theatrical auditions are," explains Rae,
who vocalizes every day, thinking of
singing as a sport and exercising the
appropriate muscles to maintain her
abilities.

"I go to each audition and do the
best I can on that particular day. It's
more of a self goal than a job goal.
Even if I don't get hired, I feel I've done
my best, and I'm happy with that.
There are so many factors that go into
casting, and I just have to deal with
myself."

Cantorial Singing

While Rae was still a student in
Cleveland, she began doing synagogue
work. It started with an invitation from
a professor who was a choir director for
a conservative congregation and knew
she was Jewish. Rae soon was doing
concerts with the cantor of that congre-
gation, often singing with others on
tour.
Rae then began doing cantorial work
in Loraine, Ohio, where her mother
had lived. She filled in for a cantor who
had to leave just before the High Holy
Days one year, and that assignment
repeated over the next several years.
Her holiday work later transferred to
Toledo.
"Those were great experiences, and
I'm kind of for hire at this point," Rae
says. "I've also volunteered for
Hadassah, educating junior and senior
high school girls how to catch breast
cancer early. My mother has been
involved with that program, and I
learned about it from her."
Although Rae has dropped her family
name professionally, she is about to
assert the ties in a production about her
paternal grandfather, Philip Markowicz.
His memoir as a Holocaust survivor
and Torah scholar is being set to music
by U-M alum Dr. Burton Beerman and
will be performed as a theater piece,
Tikvah, which will include narration,
vocal expression, saxophone instrumen-
tals and ballet sequences.
"I read the chapters of the memoir as
my grandfather would finish them, and
it's been exciting that somebody wanted
to give his ideas form in music," Rae
says. "My grandfather's will to find the
good in things has been inspiring. I feel
he's always in rebirth, and that's been
very moving." Ill

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Camelot will be performed Sept.
8-12 at the Fisher Theatre in
Detroit. Performance times are 8
p.m. Wednesday, 1 and 8 p.m.
Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8
p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7:30
p.m. Sunday. $20.50-$69.50.
Information: (313) 872-1000;
tickets: (248) 645-6666.

