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The Elephant Vanishes
Inspired by the collection of short
stories by Haruki Murakami
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 8 PM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 8 PM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 8 PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 8 PM
Power Center • Ann Arbor
Director Simon McBurney ingeniously transforms three strange,
haunting tales of urban alienation into a brilliantly compelling work
of technological wizardry, frenzied images, and lost characters.
"A relentless fusion and fission of the senses." (New York Times)
Julie Andrews hosts "Broadway: The American Musical."
Street Of Dreams
Six-part series follows the rise, fall and rebirth
of Broadway.
Performed in Japanese with English supertitles.
Media Partners Michigan Radio/Michigan Television and Metro Times. A Complicite
co-production with the Setegaya Public Theatre, Tokyo and BITE:03, Barbican, London.
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Special to the Jewish News
T
he theater district in all its
many guises comes to public
television Oct. 19-21 in the
new six-part documentary Broadway:
The American Musical.
The series follows more than a
century of what columnist Walter
Winchell referred to as "Baloney
Boulevard." Thanks to a grant
from the National
Endowment for the Arts,
writers were able to hire a
team of scholars, each
with his or her own spe-
cial cache of little-
known memorabilia.
"We had to wrap our
arms around tens of
thousands of songs
and stories," says
Michael Kantor, the
project's
producer/director.
"Eventually, you
decide, 'These images,
these songs, are the
most potent. These are -?-6
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the ones we use to help
tell our story.'"'
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Standards of womanly
beauty have changed quite a bit
since the early 1900s, if the wob-
bly thighs of Florenz Ziegfeld's cho-
rus girls are any indication. And
those who know Jerry Orbach only
as Detective Lenny Briscoe on tele-
vision's Law and Order will be
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