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THE BIG SCREEN
Tom Jones - Popular rock and pop star. Macomb
Center for the Performing Arts, Clinton Twp. 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 2. $68, $65, $62. (586) 286-2222 or
www.MacombCenter.com.
The Hot L Baltimore - University of Michigan
Department of Theatre and Drama presents Lanford
Wilson's warm and funny tale of lost souls caught up
in urban decay. Trueblood Theatre, Frieze Bldg., Ann
Arbor. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31, April 7; 8 p.m.
Friday-Saturday, April 1-2, 8-9; 2 p.m. Sunday, April
3, 10. $15, $9 students. (734) 764-2538 or
www.uprd.umich. edu.
USA-Martin Scorsese - Two personal and
entertaining documentaries, Italianamerican (1974)
and American Boy (1978), from the 1970s. Detroit
Film Theatre, Detroit Institute of Arts. 7:30 Monday,
April 4. $7.50, $6.50, members, seniors, students.
(313) 833-3237 or www.dia.org/dft.
Bob Weir with Rat Dog - A rock band with a ja77
trio at its heart; Weir's first band was the Grateful
Dead. Royal Oak Music Theatre. 8 p.m. Saturday,
April 2. $27.50, $52.50. (248) 399-2980 or
www.royaloakmusictheatre.com.
Haydn's Creation - UMS Choral Union and the
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra including conductor
Jerry Blackstone, soprano Arianna Zukerman, tenor
John Tessier and bass Stephen. Morschec. Hill
Auditorium, Ann Arbor. 8 p.m. Saturday, April 2. $10-
$28. (734) 764-2538 or www.ums.org .
Jazz at the Phil II - Michigan Ja77. Festival presents a
repeat of last year's concert showcasing local talent; it
serves as a fund-raiser for the admission-free Michigan
77 Festival Sunday, July 17. VisTaTech Center,
Schoolcraft College, 18600 Haggerty Livonia. 3-5
p.m. Sunday, April 3. $15. (248) 474-2720.
Ellis Paul - Singer-songwriter's folk-pop style helped
ignite the folk revival of the 1990s; he appears with
Minnesota songwriter-guitarist Justin Roth. The Ark,
Ann Arbor. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 3. $13.50. (734)
761-1800 or wwwtheark.org .
The Return of the Backstreet Boys - Re-introduc-
tion to fans before the release of their first new album
in five years. State Theatre, Detroit 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
April 5. $45, $39. (313) 961-5451 or
www.statetheatredetroitcom.
Run for Your Wife - Stagecrafters presents British
farce by Ray Cooney about a London cabbie with two
lives and two wives. Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette,
Royal Oak. 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m.
Sundays, April 1-17. $14, $16. (248) 541-6430.
Oakland Community College Dinner Theater -
Culinary Studies Institute presents a strolling dinner
with international cuisines, beer and wine, and Smith
Theatre presents the comedy The Nerd. Oakland
Community College, Farmington Hills. 6 p.m.
Thursday, April 7. (248) 522-3700 or
oaklandcc.edu/culinary/.
Bus Stop - William Inge's tale of a busload of weary
travelers who take shelter in a roadside diner. The
Purple Rose Theatre, 137 Park St., Chelsea. $17.50-
$32.50. 8 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday
matinees, April 7-June 4. (734) 433-773 or
www.purplerosetheatre.org .
DANCE FEVER
Rimasto Orfano - Italian chorographer Emio Greco
and Dutch theater director Pieter C. Scholtenin have
worked together in this 2002 creation set against a
soundtrack of violins and distant sirens. Power Center,
Ann Arbor. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 1-2. $16-
$36. (734) 764-2538 or www.ums.org .
THE ART SCENE
Ann Arbor Spring Art Fair - Washtenaw Farm
Council Grounds, 5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Rd., Ann
Arbor. Saturday-Sunday, April 2-3. (734) 995-7281.
HATNOT
A Conversation With Author David Grossman -
Sponsored by University of Michigan Center for
Middle Eastern & North Africa Studies and the
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Changing Face
of Israeli Society lecture series hosts Grossman on the
Israeli reality and his view on the daily chaos that
plagues the West Bank. Rackham Amphitheatre, 915
E. Washington, Ann Arbor. 8-10 p.m. Monday, April
4. (734) 764-0350.
Self-Publishing Workshop - A fund-raiser for
Cranbrook Writers' Guild advises authors and poets
how to print and circulate their works. Birmingham-
Bloomfield Art Center, 1616 S. Cranbrook Rd.,
Birmingham. 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 9. $50. Rick
Bailey (313) 845-6498.
FAMILY FUN
Robin Hood: Thief of Hearts - Cleveland Signstage
Theatre presents a special version of this classic story in
American Sign Language and English, performed
simultaneously by deaf and hearing actors. Millennium
Centre, 15600 J.L. Hudson Dr., Southfield. 11 a.m., 2
p.m. Saturday, April 2. $8. (248) 557-7529 or
www.youtheatre.org.
- Compiled by Bobbi Charnas
rated on their first film project, The Ballad of Jack and
Rose.
Rebecca Miller wrote and directed this strong story
about an aging hippie (Day-Lewis) who lives with his
teenage daughter on an isolated island, the last resi-
dents of a failed commune. The film opened in limited
release on March 25, with the critics split - a rave in
Newsweek to less kind notices from some others.
Day-Lewis (whose mother is Jewish) and Miller (her
mother was Arthur Miller's non-Jewish third wife, the
late Inge Morath) met in 1996 during the filming of
The Crucible, based on her father's play, in which Day-
Lewis starred. They married soon after and now have
two children.
The success of Miller's film Personal Velocity (2001),
led to the green-lighting of Jack and Rose.
Day-Lewis is very picky about roles, and this is his
first film in three years. He even kept his wife waiting
several months until he agreed to star in her film.
Jack and Rose is scheduled to open April 1 at the
The Jewish subtext is not sur-
prising when one learns that
Holmes' father was a classical
Jewish musician.
Swing began as a musical
If You Like Pifia Colada
two decades ago, but Holmes
gave up writing and perform-
RUPERT HOLMES is most asso-
ing music following the death
ciated with his mid-1980s novelty
of his young daughter in
hit song "Escape-The Pina Colada
1986. However, the musical
Song."
Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller
origin of the novel found its
But he's also the composer of the
way into the book in the form
Tony award-winning musical The
of original song lyrics that serve as mystery clues.
Mystery of Edwin Drood. He wrote the hit stage show
Holmes told the New York Times that the writing of
Goodnight Gracie, about GEORGE BURNS and
Swing somehow broke the spell of his self-imposed
Gracie Allen, as well.
exile from music, and he is now singing as part of his
Holmes' just published mystery novel, Swing, com-
book tour. ❑
bines his musical and writing talents. This critically
acclaimed tale tells the story of a French Jewish dancer
Nate Bloom is the Califirnia-based editor of
who is murdered just before she is about to be deport-
www.jewhoo.com.
ed from America to Nazi-occupied France in 1940.
Maple Art Theatre in Bloomfield
Township. Check your local movie
listings.
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