MUSICAL NOTES
Moby — Alternative rock. State Theatre, 2115
Woodward, Detroit. 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 22.
$15-$25. (313) 961-5450 or www.statetheatrede-
troit.com .
conductor and host Thomas Wilkins and violinist
James Ehnes. Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward,
Detroit. 3 p.m. Sunday, May 1. $23-$42. (313)
576-5111 or www.detroitsymphony.com .
HE SMALL SCREEN
ON THE STAGE
Alison Krauss and Union Station — Grammy
Award-winning singer of bluegrass, country and
folk. Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward, Detroit. 8
p.m. Friday, April 22. (313) 471-3200 or
www. ticketmaster. corn.
Bye Bye Birdie — Spotlight Players. The Village
Theater, 50400 Cherry Hill, Canton. 8 p.m.
Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through April
30. $18 adults, $16 seniors, children. (734) 394-
5460.
Bruce Springsteen — Rock-pop star celebrates
the release of his latest album Devils & Dust. Fox
Theatre, 2211 Woodward, Detroit. 7:30 p.m.
Monday, April 25. $78-$88. (313) 471-3200 or
www. ticketmaster. corn.
Summer and Smoke — Classic drama by
Tennessee Williams. Performance Network, 120
E. Huron, Ann Arbor. 8 p.m. Thursday-
Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, April 21-May 29. $20-
$34.50. (734) 663-0681 or www.performancenet-
work.org.
Juliette and the Licks — Explosive, live rock 'n'
roll. The Magic Stick, 4120 Woodward, Detroit.
7 p.m. Tuesday, April 26. $10. (313) 833-7665 or
www.majesticdetroit.corn.
Mozart and Korngold: Prodigies — Detroit
Symphony Orchestra Classical Series presents
conductor Thomas Wilkins and James Ehnes on
violin. Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward, Detroit.
8 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday,
April 28-30. $30-$114. (313) 576-5111 or
www.detroitsymphony.com .
Mozart: Musical Genius — Overture to The
Marriage of Figaro and Violin Concerto No. 5 with
tion, volume and keen timing in telling parts of
the story and was utterly serious, not showing a
nanosecond of his Priceline.com persona."
Foreign Tbngues
Advance reviews are good for Oscar-winning
director SIDNEY POLLACK's thriller The
Interpreter, opening nationwide on April 22.
Nicole Kidman stars as a United Nations inter-
preter whose life is in danger when she overhears
a death threat against a world leader.
SEAN PENN co-stars as a federal agent
assigned to protect Kidma_n and look for French
Jewish director-actor YVAN ATTAL in a small,
but pivotal, role as a mysterious photographer.
Hebrew Bookends
No doubt, curiosity will cause many of you to
tune into bombshell Pamela Anderson's new
series, Stacked, which premiered last Wednesday
on FOX. Pam plays a ditzy blonde who takes a
job in a bookstore to meet a higher class of guys.
Playing Anderson's boss is ELON GOLD (In-
17360 Lahser, Detroit. 8 p.m. (7:30 p.m. organ
overture) Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. (1:30 organ
overture) Sat. matinee, April 22-23. $5. (313)
537-2560 or www.redfortheatre.com .
Evita — The Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim
Rice musical, winner of 40 international awards,
including the 1980 Tony Award for Best Musical.
Bonstelle Theatre, 3424 Woodward, Detroit.
(313) 577-2972 or"www.bonstelle.com .
THE BIG SCREEN
Three Stooges Festival — Six of the best: Three
Sappy People (1939), Rockin' Through the Rockies
(1940), In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941), Sock-a-
Bye Baby (1942), The Yokes on Me (1944), If a
Body Meets a Body (1945). Redford Theatre,
Laws), while Tony-winner
MARISSA JARET
WINOKUR (Hairspray)
has her first regular TV
role as a wisecracking reg
ular at the bookstore's
cafe.
I've never understood
Anderson's popularity in
the sea of Hollywood
blonde ditzes, so I'm loath
to predict the series'
Elon Gold: Bossing
chances. However, I'll
Pamela Anderson
note that Winokur hedged around.
her bets by filming a pilot
for another show that
aims to make the fall schedule.
Time 100
Recently, Time magazine came out with its list of
the 100 most influential people in the world.
The Jewish "winners" are Israeli prime minister
ARIEL SHARON, Israeli cabinet minister
Alef...Bet...Blast-offl — Mitzvah Mouse meets
Golda Meir. Jewish Television Network
Productions. Detroit Public TV. 9 a.m. Sunday,
April 24. www.dptv.org .
THE ART SCENE
Open Edition — Robert Landry bronze sculp-
tures, Outsider Art by Purvis Young, oil paintings
by Lawrence Finney and landscapes by local artist
Nancy Thayer. Batista Gallery, 756 Livernois,
Ferndale. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-4
p.m. Saturday, through May 13. (248) 544-
4627.
Toyota Lecture on Design
— Alexander Gelman,
president and founding
partner, Design Machine,
media artist, educator and
author. College for
Creative Studies, Walter B.
Ford II Bldg., 201 E.
Kirby, Detroit. 7 p.m.
Madeline Zimberg:
Tuesday, April 26. (313)
"Field Flowers," at the
664-7465 or
Oak Park JCC.
CALENDAR on page 54
NATAN SHARANSKY, comedian JON STEW-
ART, cartoonist ART SPIEGELMAN, economist
(and former Detroiter) JEFRREY SACHS,
Australian-born ethicist PETER SINGER,
Harvard President LAWRENCE SUMMERS,
Google co-founder SERGEY BRIN, Russian-
British billionaire ROMAN ABRAMOVICH,
Brit businessman Sir MARTIN SORRELL and
New York State Attorney General ELIOT
SPITZER.
Matzah And Metal
Matzah And Metal: A Very Classic Passover is the
title of a VH-1 special airing April 24 that fea-
tures heavy metal Jewish musicians LESLIE
WEST ("Mountain"), SCOTT IAN ("Anthrax"),
and J.J. FRENCH ("Twisted Sister").
As well as showing the guys at a seder, the pro-
gram will feature classic rock videos. Check your
local TV listings.
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Nate Bloom is the California-based editor of
Jewhoo.com .
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