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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents Sister
Act I: Piano, featuring piano duo Katia and Marielle
Labeque performing Berio's Concerto for Two Pianos
and Orchestra, 10:45 a.m. Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday
and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29-31; Mahler's Symphony
No. 1 ("Titan') rounds out the program. Next up is Sister
Act II: Strings, with violinist Ani Kavafian and violist
Ida Kavafian playing Britten's Double Concerto, 8 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 4, and 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 6-7; the DSO also performs Copland's
Appalachian Spring (original version) and Dvorak's
Symphony No. 7. At the Max M. Fisher Music Center
in Detroit; for ticket information, call (313) 576-5111
or go to -vvvvw.detroitsymphony.org
Songstress Roberta Flack appears at
Macomb Center for the Performing Arts 8
p.m. Friday, Nov.5. $42-$50. (586) 286-
2222.
Radio station 89X presents Brooklyn's
"Sultans of Sarcasm" — the Beastie Boys
— 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, at Detroit's
Cobo Arena. $33-$43.50. (248) 645-6666.
In a concert tided Gershwin's World,
scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, at the
Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit,
jazz composer/pianist Herbie Hancock
joins the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to
celebrate one of the great composers of the 20th centu-
ry Ticket info: (313) 576-5111 or www.detroitsym-
phony.org
$55. (517) 432-2000.
Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah and
Congregation Beth Shalom Sisterhood pres-
ent Illusion Theatre's For Our Daughters, a
multimedia play with music celebrating
hope and survival in the face of breast can-
cer, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, at
Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park.
Donation: $5. Reservations: (248) 683-
5030 or (248) 547-7970.
Stagecrafters mounts a production of
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
often called "America's greatest play" — 8
p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Nov.
5-21, at the Baldwin Theatre in Royal Oak. $14-$16.
(248) 541-6430.
Pop/RocK/JAzz/Fouc
ON THE STAGE
DANCE FEVER
Twenty-something Jewish
singer-songwriter Ben Kweller
takes the stage Sunday, Oct. 31,
at St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit.
Doors at 6:30 p.m. $15. (248)
645-6666.
Up-and-coming jazz
vocalist/pianist Peter Cincotti
performs a concert at Detroit's
Gem Theatre 7:30 p.m. Monday,
Nov. 1. $30-$40. (248) 645-
6666:
The Palace of Auburn Hills
hosts rocker Avril Lavigne, 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3,
$32:50-37.50; and the divine
Bette Midler, 8 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 5, $42.50-$178. (248) 645-
6666.
Wayne State University's Bonstelle Theatre
stages the farce A Flea in Her Ear, written in
1894 by French playwright Georges Feydeau
and adapted and updated by Frank Galati in
1988, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays, Oct. 29-Nov. 7. $12. (313) 577-2960.
The Broadway hit The Full Monty, based on
the 1997 Academy Award-nominated film of
the same name, makes its Detroit debut 8 p.m.
Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2
and 7:30 p.m. Sundays; Nov. 2-21, at Detroit's
Fisher Theatre (see next week's Jewish News for a
feature story on the production). $30.50-$68.
(248) 645-6666.
The Wharton Center in East Lansing mounts
a production of the Kander and Ebb musical
comedy classic Chicago 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-
Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday
and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2-7. $27.50-
Contemporary dance company the Eisenhower
Dance Ensemble opens its 14th subscription season
with the Amy Marshall Dance Company of New York
8 p.m. (prelude at 7:30 p.m.) Saturday, Oct. 30, at
Oakland University's Varner Recital Hall in Rochester.
EDE will perform Bolero, set to the famous score by
Ravel; Night Music, set to Mozart's Eine Kleine
Nachtmusik ("A Little Night Music"); and Long Way
Round, a driving contemporary work originally choreo-
graphed for EDE's New York City debut. The AMDC
also will perform three works. $8-$15. (248) 370-
3013.
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Ben Kweller performs at
Detroit's St. Andrew's Hall.
FAMTLY FuN
Youtheatre presents a musical version of The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving's classic
tale of the Headless Horseman, 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 30, at Southfield's Millennium Center;
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