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Sunday, May 22, Noon - 6 pm

From `Hairspray'
To 'Little Shop'

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To Lois Shaevsky, theater is all about
dollars and "sense."

At the Village of Rochester Hills Shopping Center

North East Corner of Adams & Walton

Can, slated for Broadway.
"After being an investor for a
while, you get a pretty good idea of
airspray, the Broadway
which shows should be successful
musical that's been wowing
and which shows won't," Shaevsky
audiences at Detroit's
observed. Her husband, Mark, is a
Masonic Temple Theatre with non-
lawyer in the Detroit firm of
stop dancing and singing energy, is
Honigman Miller Schwartz and
getting a "four-star" rating from Lois Cohn, and another attorney in the
Shaevsky of Bloomfield Hills.
firm got her interested in being an
She's a longtime investor in musi-
investor.
cals and plays and is currently receiv-
Shaevsky got an early taste of show
ing a whopping 160
business, attending
percent return on
musicals here and
her investment in
in New York at the
the Broadway ver-
age of 6 and later
sion of Hairspray.
going to parties at
She's expecting sim-
Sardi's, the famed
ilar success for the
New York bistro.
road companies,
"Those were the
like the one in
good old days
Detroit, but finan-
when the investors
cial returns aren't in
waited around
yet.
until 4 a.m. to read
"I'm also waiting
the reviews in the
for investment
morning newspa-
opportunities for
pers," she recalled.
Hairspray in
She also has
Toronto and
attended some
London," said
Tony Award pro-
Shaevsky, who
grams in New
declined to say how Lois Shaevsky
York and was a
much she invested
good friend of
— although $10,000 is the mini-
Bobby Short, the late cabaret pianist.
mum for shows.
Her cousin was the late Lehman
Shaevsky, like fellow Hairspray
Engle, a noted Broadway and movie
investor Rosalie Beer of West
musical conductor.
Bloomfield ("The Angels of
Shaevsky also has been extremely
`Hairspray,'" April 21, page 61), also
active in Jewish community philan-
invested in the road company of
thropies, serving on many boards
Little Shop of Horrors, which opens
and committees, including the
its Detroit run May 17 at the Fisher
Jewish Federation Forum.
Theatre. Unlike Beer, Shaevsky also
She's also active with the Detroit
invested in the Broadway revival, but Historical Museum, and she's work-
she lost money when the show
ing on the upcoming 50th anniver-
closed earlier than hoped for.
sary celebration at Royal Oak's
But Shaevsky passed on the
Beaumont Hospital.
London production of The
Shaevsky, who has two children
Producers, feeling the subject matter
and three grandchildren, graduated
(jokes about Hider and the Nazis)
from Detroit's Mumford High
was not suited for England. She fig-
School in 1956 and from the
ures she has a winner in the upcom-
University of Michigan in Ann
ing musical version of the Steven
Arbor. Her father was Lawrence
Spielberg hit movie Catch Me If You
Levi, a Detroit attorney.

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