ARTS •

This tour follows in the footsteps of last sum-
mer's similar trek through Minor League ball-
parks with Willie Nelson and the Hot Club of
Cowtown.
"The Bob Dylan Show" takes the stage 7 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12, at the Masonic Temple Theater
in Detroit. Reserved seats are $35-$65. (248) 645-
6666 or www.ticketmaster.com .

DOUBLE BILL

Jewish Ensemble Theatre's productions of Arthur
Miller's The Last Yankee and Murray Schisgal's 74
Georgia Avenue continue 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-
Thursdays, 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sundays, through April 17, at the Aaron DeRoy
Theatre in the West Bloomfield Jewish Community
Center.
Directed by Lavinia Hart, both short plays
deal with people, who in the words of JET
Artistic Director Evelyn Orbach, "are trying to
make sense of their lives." Thursday night per-
formances are followed by talkbacks with psy-
chotherapists who will entertain questions
from the audience: playwright/marriage coun-
selor Kitty Dubin on April 7 and playwright/
therapist Joe Feinstein on April 14.
Tickets are $25-$37/student and senior discounts
available. $15 rush tickets go on sale two hours
before every show. (248) 788-2900.

Love Lovitz

Former SNL star JON
LOVITZ recently
decided to re-invent
himself as a stand-up
comedian because he
was annoyed he wasn't
getting the roles he
wanted or was waiting
too long between roles.
His appearances at
an L.A. club have been
a monster hit, and his
Jon Lovitz
run has been extended
for another three
months.
One of his funniest bits is about growing up
"not a Jew, but Jewish" and the disparity
between some macho kid in Texas and his
childhood: "Most [Texas] boys at 12 go
hunting with their fathers, kill a deer and then
learn how to gut them and skin them.
I had the same experience with a bagel. My
father would come in screaming, 'You're cut-

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Legends of Rock - Experience the history of rock
'n' roll as it was introduced more than five decades
ago. Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
Theatre, 15801 Michigan Ave., Dearborn. 8 p.m.
Friday, April 8. $23-$29. (313) 943-2354 or
WWW. dearbornfordcentencom.

Gil Shaham, Violin, with Akira Eguchi, Piano -
Chamber Music Society of Detroit. Seligman
Performing Arts Center, Detroit Country Day
School, 22305 W. 13 Mile, Beverly Hills. 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 9. $33-$75. (248) 855-6070.

Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony - Music direc-
tor Felix Resnick leads BBSO in music by Mozart,
Wagner, Ibert, Beethoven; winner of 2004 Bohemian
Club youth competition, Lissie Okopny, solos in
Jacques Ibert's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra.
Temple Beth El, Bloomfield Twp. 7 p.m. Sunday,
April 10. $25; children, free. (248) 645-2276.

Soul Sirkus - Guitar virtuoso Neal Schon of
Journey performs in new band. Magic Bag, 22920
Woodward, Ferndale. 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 12.
$27.50. (248) 544-3030.

National Poetry Month Concert - Steve and Caitlin
Klaper sing songs from their new CD I Have a Little
Shadow, original music for the poems of Robert Louis
Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Book Beat,
26010 Greenfield, Oak Park. 2 p.m. Sunday, April 20.
No charge. (248) 968-1190.

Coming to the Ark - 316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor.
(734) 761-1451 or www.theark.org .
• Mr. B's Blues & Boogie Piano Celebration -
Boogie and jazz piano music featuring Mr. B., Bob

ring it wrong! Look at all the dough you're
wasting!'"

Upcoming

NEIL SEDAKA, whose song "Amarillo" just
went No. 1 in Britain, will appear in a cameo on
TV's Jake in Progress. Also, a major stage musical
based on his tunes is in the works.
Composer MARC SHAIMAN (Hairspray) is
doing the music for ROB REINER's new film,
Rumour Has It, starring Jennifer Aniston. At
the same time, he's finishing up a new stage
musical based on STEVEN SPIELBERG's film
Catch Me as You Can. He's also assisting the
movie version of Hairspray, set to start filming
in September.
BOB SAGET, the star of TV's Full House,
will play the father of two young boys accused
of insider trading in Privilege, a comedy by
PAUL WEITZ. The play opens in New York
on April 25. Weitz, who's the son of the
famous late fashion designer JOHN WEITZ, is
best known as the writer-director of such films
as In Good Company and About a Boy. El

Seeley, Charlie Booty and Johnny O'Neal. 8 p.m.
Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 9-10. $27.50.
1:30 p.m. Sunday family performance. $10.
• Altan - Celtic band for the Irish music enthusi-
ast. 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 12. $25.
• Bela Fleck With Acoustic Trio Bryan Sutton and
Cassey Driessen - Bluegrass. 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 13. $50, $100.

Rhapsody in Blue - Wind symphony features
soloist Robert Conway on piano. Wayne State
University Department of Music, Community Arts
Auditorium, 5451 Cass, Detroit. 7 p.m. Wednesday,
April 13. $8, $5 student, senior. (313) 577-1795.

Dianne Reeves - Paradise Jazz Series presents the
winner of a 2004 Grammy. Orchestra Hall, 3711
Woodward, Detroit. 8 p.m. Thursday, April 14. $18-
$85. (313) 576-5111 or www.detroitsymphony.com .

Concert of Love Songs - Cantor Stephen Dubov,
Alex Dubov and Crystal Webster present a sampler
of favorite love songs. Congregation Chaye Olam,
Bloomfield Twp. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 17. $18.
(248) 851-7485.

Wuthering Heights - Oakland Theatre Guild
stages the play based on the novel by Emily Bronte.
Starlight Theater, Summit Place Mall, 315 N.
Telegraph, Waterford. 7:30 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 2
p.m. Sundays, through April 17. $14 adults, $12
seniors, $10 students. (248) 335-1788 or
www.starlighttheater.net.

Misalliance - A drawing room comedy by George
Bernard Shaw. Hilberry Theatre, 4743 Cass, Detroit.
April 8-May 14; call for days and times. $13-$22,
$10 student rush tickets. (313) 577-2972 or
www.hilberry.com .

Fiddler on the Roof - Troika Entertainment pro-
duces the musical based on the stories of Sholem
Aleichem. Macomb Center for the Performing Arts,
44574 Garfield, Clinton Township. 8 p.m. Friday; 2
p.m., 8 p.m. Saturday, April 8-9. $45, $40 students,
senior. (586) 286-2222 or
vv-ww.MacombCenter.com .

Beauty and the Beast - Michigan Opera Theatre
presents the Tony Award-winning musical with
music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard
Ashman. Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward, Detroit. 8
p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Saturday; 1
p.m., 6:30 p.m. Sunday; April 12-17. $52-$78.
(313) 471-3200 or www.ticketmaster.com .

City of Angels - University of Michigan Musical
Theatre Department presents the comic spoof of
1940s film noir and detective fiction, a movie-with-
in-a-play-within-a-musical. Power Center for the
Performing Arts, 121 Fletcher, Ann Arbor. 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday,
April 14-17. $15-$20, $9 students. (734) 764-2539,
www.uprod.music.umich.edu .

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