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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs a con-
cert titled J.S. Bach and Family, featuring works by
members of the influential music dynasty, 10:45 a.m.
and 8 p.m. Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3-4,
at the Max M. Fisher Music Center. $16-$114. (313)
576-5111.
The Claremont Trio performs Dec. 4 at Seligman
Pei forming Arts Center.
Chamber Music Society of Detroit presents the
Claremont Trio, winner of the first Kalichstein-
Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 4, at Seligman Performing Arts
Center in Beverly Hills. Emily and Julia Bruskin and
Donna Kwong will perform works by Beethoven,
Shostakovich and Mendelssohn.
$23-$70. (248) 855-6070.
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
The Ark in Ann Arbor presents a boogie-woogie
and classic blues CD release party as Mr. B (aka
Mark Braun) debuts Mr. B at Home, joined by Paul
Keller and Pete Siers, 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, $20;
classic Western musicians Riders in the Sky, 7:30
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28, $20; New Jersey-ite folk musi-
cian Mike Agranoff, 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29,
$13.50; Joe Jencks, Jen Cass and Justin Roth, three
new songwriters performing in the round, 8 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 2, $11; alternative music group Over
the Rhine, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, $16.50;
Canada's Jane Siberry, 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9, $20;
and traditional/contemporary folk artist Joel Mabus,
8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, $15. (734) 761-1451.
Jazz flutist Alexander Zonjic and
$68. (313) 237-7464.
Friends premiere Zonjic's new CD, Seldom
Film and dance star Patrick Swayze
Blues, in a 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28,
hosts the modern dance company
concert at the Marriott Renaissance
Complexions in a multi-media presenta-
Center's Ambassador Ballroom in Detroit.
tion of works including Blue, a piece
$40 general admission/$60 VIP tickets
whose choreography was commissioned by
(includes front-row seating and admission
arts philanthropist Margo V. Cohen of
to Zonjic's Seldom Blues Jazz Supper
Birmingham, in tribute to her husband
Club, also located in the GM Renaissance
Morry Cohen, 7:30 p.m. Friday and 8
Center, for an afterglow party). (248) 645-
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3-4, at Detroit's
6666.
GAIL ZINIM ERMAN
Music Hall Center for the Performing
Arts Editor
Hear the great-grandchildren of Captain
Arts. $35-$45. (248) 645-6666.
Von Trapp (of Sound of Music fame) per-
The nonprofit Michigan Classic Ballet
form songs from the musical/movie along with clas-
Company will perform the full-length Nutcracker
sics like "Danny Boy" and "Amazing Grace" as the
Ballet at Mercy High School in Farmington Hills 11
DSO hosts a Von Trapp Children Christmas 8 p.m.
a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday,
Wednesday, Dec. 15, at the Max M. Fisher Music
Dec. 11-12. $14-$18/$12 group sales. (248) 334-
Center. Ticket info: (313) 576-5111 or
6964.
www.detroitsymphony.com
Canadian alternative rock group Barenaked Ladies,
featuring Jewish lead singer Steven Page, performs in
LAUGH LINES
a "Barenaked for the Holidays Tour" 7:30 p.m.
Lewis Black, a regular contributor to The Daily
Saturday, Dec. 18, at Masonic Temple Theater.
Show with Jon Stewart, performs 7:30 p.m. Friday,
$45.50. (248) 645-6666.
Dec. 3, at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.
$32.75. (248) 645-6666.
ON THE STAGE
Winner of seven Tony Awards, Tim Rice and
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, which brings to life
the larger-than-life persona of Eva Peron, runs 8 p.m.
Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2 and
7:30 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 30-Dec. 12, at Detroit's
Fisher Theatre. $32.50-$72.50. (313) 872-1000 or
(248) 645-6666.
WSU's Studio Theatre mounts a production of
Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play,
Dinner With Friends, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays,
Dec. 2-11. $7-$9. (313) 577-2972.
The Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts
stages Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with carols,
dancing and a cast of television, film and recording
stars including Barry Williams (Brady Bunch) and
Jeff Conaway ( Taxi), 8 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 3 and 8
p.m. Saturday and 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7-12.
$37.50-$61.50. (248) 645-6666.
Presented by the U-M Department of Theatre and
Drama, The Rover, a tale of sexual intrigue and
women's liberation set in 17th-century Spain and
written by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), the first profes-
sional woman playwright in English history, comes
to the Power Center stage in Ann Arbor 8 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9-12.
$9-$20. (734) 764-2538.
DANCE FEVER
Alexander Zonjic performs Sunday at the Marriott
Renaissance Center's Ambassador Ballroom in Detroit.
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The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago presents The
Nutcracker, featuring the Tchaikovsky score played
by the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra, three
local children's choruses and more than 120 young
dancers from southeast Michigan joining the compa-
ny, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 2-5, at the Detroit Opera House. $28-
THE BIG SCREEN
Oakland University's College of Arts and Sciences
commemorates 350 years of Jewish life in America
with a film talk on Expanding the Mainstream:
Woody Allen's Jewishness, in which instructor
Andrea Eis will investigate various manifestations of
Jewishness and Jewish character development in
Allen's work, noon Friday, Dec. 3, in the Gold Room
of the Oakland Center on the Rochester campus.
Free/reservations requested: (248) 370-2650.
Help refurbish the Detroit Film Theatre: For a tax-
deductible contribution of $325, you can have up to
60 characters engraved on a nameplate to be mount-
ed on one of the 1,150 new seats to be installed in
June 2005 (deadline to contribute is March 2005).
To purchase a seat or make a contribution, call (313)
833-4686 or email lbaranski@dia.org
FAMILY FUN
Spend an afternoon at the Parade Studio and expe-
rience a wonderland of larger-than-life floats featured
in this year's Thanksgiving Day parade, along with
entertainment and other activities, noon-5 p.m.
Friday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday,
Nov. 26-28. $5/2 and under free. (313) 923-7400 or
wvvw.theparade.org
Gemini performs acoustic music for children and
their families 1 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28, at the
Ark in Ann Arbor. $8. (734) 761-1451.
Featuring 50 children from southeast Michigan,
Victor Herbert's classic Babes in Toyland takes the
stage 1 p.m. Saturdays (lunch at noon) and 2 p.m.
Sundays (lunch at 1 p.m.) through Dec. 19 at
Theatre Livonia in the Livonia Mall. $10 lunch and
show/$7 show only. (586) 344-7774.
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