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35th Anniversary Season
David DiChiera, General Director

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June 3-10, 2006

at the Detroit Opera House

"Salome" is the decadent Biblical story of the
vixen who can have anything she wants...
except that which she truly desires!
Featuring the hypnotic climax
" Dance of the Seven Veils"!

This production contains graphic subject matter and
brief nudity. Discretion is advised.

FOR TICKETS,
CALL 313-237-SING

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June 3, 8:00 pm
Sun:, June 4, 2:00 pm
Wed., June 7, 7:30 pm
Fri., June 9, 8:00 pm
Sat., June 10, 8:00 pm

FREE OPERA TALK

one hour prior to performance

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Keeping Up With the Steins features an
initiation more "bar" than "mitzvah."

Tom Tugend
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

ROGER EBERT

its like 'My Big Fat Jewish Bar Mitzvah!

Rite Of Passage

eeping Up With the Steins
proves that you don't have to be
Jewish to make a funny Jewish

film.
Case in point is the father-son team
of Garry and Scott Marshall, with the
younger one directing the movie and the
older one just about stealing the show as
a hippie Jewish grandfather who teaches
his yuppie descendants that there's more
to a bar mitzvah than throwing the most
lavish party in upscale Los Angeles.
The film, which won the Audience
Award for Best Feature at the U.S.
Comedy Arts Festival, opens with an aer-
ial shot of a Queen Mary-sized cruise
ship, whose bow displays a giant banner
reading,"Mazel Tov, Zachary:' The theme
of the celebration is the last voyage of the
Titanic, complete with a huge iceberg
mockup, from which emerge a bevy of
scantily clad mermaids — and that's just
for the appetizer.

Hosting the simchah is Arnie Stein
(comedian Larry Miller), agent for the
stars:' and his trophy wife, whom he met
at a Texas wet T-shirt contest.
Among the guests, and gnashing his
teeth, is Stein's business competitor Adam
Fiedler (Jeremy Piven, also slick agent
Ari Gold in the HBO series Entourage),
accompanied by his wife, Joanne (Jami
Gertz), and nerdy-looking son Benjamin
(Daryl Sabara), whose own bar mitzvah
is coming up in a few months.
Driving home from the Steins' bash,
Adam Fiedler starts obsessing about his
heir's bar mitzvah party. It's not enough
to keep up with the Steins, he has to put
on a bash that will crush and humiliate
his rival.
Safaris are so 1990s, but renting base-
ball's Dodger Stadium is a possibility. At
night, Adam dreams about a line of kip-
pah-wearing Los Angeles Laker Girls as a
bar mitzvah highlight.
As Adam's fevered mind nears the
breaking point, up pops his father Irwin
(Garry Marshall), pony-tailed and hippie-