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the concert. Information and tick-
ets: (248) 788-9338 or (248) 661-
1348.
SHORT NOTICE
For decades, singer-pianist Bobby
Short has been a premier interpreter
of America's master songwriters,
including Cole Porter, George
Gershwin and Rodgers and Hart.
His renditions of songs such as
"Manhattan," "Like the Likes of
You," "At Long Last Love" and
"From This Moment On" — most
often at New York's Cafe Carlyle,
where he has performed since 1968
— are classics.
Short performs 8:30 p.m. Friday,
April 2, at Detroit's Music Hall for
the Performing Arts 75th
Anniversary Finale. Music Hall will
be converted into a cabaret setting
with 30 tables at this intimate
fund-raising event.
Tickets for the cabaret tables are
$250 per seat and can be obtained
by calling (313) 962-4260. Seats in
Music Hall's mezzanine are avail-
able for $50 at all Ticketmaster
locations, at
www.ticketmaster.com or by calling
(313) 963-2366. ❑
calendar
Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz
Orchestra — Latin flavor, performed
by acclaimed jazz musicians. Wharton
Center, Michigan State University, East
Lansing. 8 p.m. Friday, March 25. $20-
$35. (800) WHARTON or vvww.whar-
toncentercom.
Alicia Keys — Five-time Grammy
Award winner presents a blend of soul,
hip-hop, jazz-and classical music in
"The Diary Tour" with special guest
John Legend. Fox Theatre, Detroit. 8
p.m. Friday, March 25. $38-$88. (248)
645-6666 or www.ticketmaster.com .
Dougie MacLean — Scottish singer-
songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
dubbed "Scotland's greatest living song-
writer." The Ark, Ann Arbor. 8 p.m.
Wednesday, March 30. $25. (248) 645-
6666 or www.ticketmastercom.
Two by Brahms — Jerzy Semkow con-
ducts French pianist Helene Grimaud
and the DSO: Brahms Piano Concerto
No. 2 and Brahms Symphony No. 2.
Orchestra Hall, Detroit. 8 p.m.
Thursday-Friday, 8:30.p.m. Saturday, 3
p.m. Sunday, March 31, April 1-3.
$16-$114. (313) 576-5111 or
www.detroitsymphony.com .
Tartuffe = U-M School of Music pres-
ents the comic opera by Kirke Mechem
Over in the land of Trek fiction, a
new story in the Star 7;-ek e-book
series, "Starfleet Corps of Engineers,"
features the first Jewish marriage cere-
mony in Trek history, complete with
klezmer music and glass stomping.
Jewish character Esther Silver insists
on a Jewish wedding when she marries
the son of the non-Jewish (and non-
human) Klingon ambassador to Earth.
Their chuppah, however, pleases the
groom's family — Klingon warriors
hold up swords to form a canopy.
Desperate Housewives' Mom
The talented and pretty LESLEY
ANN WARREN, 58, didn't became a
major star as many predicted early in
her career, but she's never stopped
doing good TV and film work.
Warren, who received an Oscar
nomination for Victor/Victoria, will
about a hardheaded father who tries to
force his daughter to marry a man she
despises. Mendelssohn Theatre, Ann
Arbor. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m.
Friday-Saturday, March 24-26. $15-
$20, $9 students. (734) 764-2538 or
www.uprod.music.umich.edu .
The White Rose — A collaborative
project of Meadow Brook Theatre
Ensemble, Actors' Equity guest artists
and student actors about a group of stu-
dents from University of Munich in
1942 who protested the activities of the
Nazi party. Varner Studio Theatre,
Oakland University, Rochester. March
21-April 10; call for times. $6-$15.
(248) 370-3013 or
www.ticketmastercom.
Godspell — The Theatre Company of
the University of Detroit Mercy and
Marygrove College present a modern-
day Detroit spin on this rock musical
classic of parables and scenes from Jesus'
life written by John-Michael Tebelak
and Stephen Schwartz. Marygrove
College Theatre. 8 p.m. Thursday-
Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, March 31-
April 3, 7-10. $15, $13 seniors, $9
Marygrove students. (313) 993-3270 or
www.theatre.udmercy.edu .
Animation Show — King of the Hill
creator Mike Judge and comic Don
Hertzfeldt have assembled works from
the great animation artists today.
Detroit Film Theatre, Detroit Institute
appear on the hit
ABC series
Desperate
Housewives in an
arc of shows
starting Apr. 10.
Warren plays the
mother of Susan
(Teri Hatcher),
Lesley Ann Warren: one of the princi-
New "Housewife." pal characters.
The plotline has
Hatcher trying to reconcile Warren
with her ex-boyfriend, played by Bob
Newhart.
Bar Mitzvah Bits
The stars of TV's Alias, VICTOR
GARBER and Jennifer Garner, just
performed a singing duet at a charity
event in Los Angeles. Garner, who
plays Garber's daughter, admitted she's
Victor Garber:
Singing
bar mitzvah boy.
really not a
singer, although
she did vocalize
a bit in musicals
when she started
out.
On the other
hand, Garber,
who is a
Broadway musi-
cal star, said that
his first musical
was his bar
mitzvah, "and I
was very good in it.
Forbes magazine recently noted that
billionaire art collector and cosmetics
fortune heir RONALD LAUDER
bought his first art piece, a drawing by
a modern master, with money from his
bar mitzvah. (And I "foolishly" spent
my bar mitzvah gelt on trifles like col-
lege!) ❑
of Arts. 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Fridays-
Saturdays; 2 p.m., 4 p.m. Sundays,
March 25-27, April 1-3. $7.50, $6.50
members, seniors, students. (313) 833-
3237 or wwvv.dia.org/dft.
Peter Berman: — U-M grad is known
for a sense of the bizarre realities
beneath the surface of everyday life;
opening act is Detroit-area comic
Connie Ettinger. Ann Arbor Comedy
Showcase, old VFW Hall (below Seva
restaurant), 314 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor.
8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 31,
April 1-2. $7-$10. (734) 996-9080.
Images of Time and Place:
Contemporary View of Landscape —
A broad range of artists working with
the concept of landscape as the primary
content as well as in a supporting role
through paintings, drawing, prints,
photography, installation sculpture and
video; participating artists include
Adam Straus, Alexis Rockman, Sally
Apfelbaum, Joni Sternbach, Andrea
Robbins, Max Becher, Nadav Kander.
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, 480 W.
Hancock, WSU campus, Detroit. 10
a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10
a.m.-7 p.m. Fridays, March 25-May 13.
Opening reception: 5-8 p.m. Friday,
March 25. (313) 577-2423.
Bubbe Kleinman — Fay Kleinman, 92,
shows oil and mixed-media work
including landscapes, portraits and
abstracts — whimsical, expressionistic
and realistic. Ypsilanti District Library,
5577 Whittaker Road. March 28-May
29. (734) 482-4110.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State — To
commemorate the 60th anniversary of
the liberation of Auschwitz, BBC Video
releases a six-part documentary series,
recently broadcast on Detroit Public
Television, on DVD. Narrated by
actress Linda Hunt, it presents an in-
depth examination of the camp's evolu-
tion and the decisions that led to the
creation of the largest mass murder site
in history. Available March 29. $34.95.
— Compiled by Bobbi Charnas
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