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David DiChiera, General Director

One of the most beloved
operas in the world returns
to Detroit for 8 dazzling
performances!

The Cershwins®

October 21-November 5, 2000

by George Dershynn, Dose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin

Sat.
Sun.
Wed.
Fri.

Oct. 21,
Oct. 22,
Oct. 25,
Oct. 27,

7:30pm
2:30pm
7:30pm
7:30pm

Sat.
Sun.
Sat.
Sun.

Oct. 28,
Oct. 29,
Nov. 04,
Nov. 05,

7:30pm
2:30pm
7:30pm
2:30pm

Free Opera Talk with Dr. Wallace Peace,
1 hour prior to performance.

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by Paris Hilton," Mad
#464, April 2006) for
example — there has
to be a certain amount
of daydreaming. I'll
start thinking: What if
Paris Hilton is living in
the time of the Salem
witch trials, or maybe
she's updating the
book for modern times
or what would be her
Arie Kaplan
take on the story?
Then I write every-
thing down — in long-
hand because for some reason that
makes it funnier. Then when I type
it up, I revise it. By the time I send
it out to Mad, it's this tight, musi-
cal, sinewy, sexy piece.

JN: Now do you know when
something you've written is
funny?

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AK: It's hard to gauge unless you
test it out on other people. I'll try
stuff out on my friends, fellow writ-
ers and my wife, who's a screen-
writer.
One time I did this piece for
Mad that became fairly popular;
it was called "What if Chris Rock
performed at a bar mitzvah?" It
started when a friend of mine, Josh
Malinow, and I were coming back
from a bar mitzvah and we started
doing impressions of Snoop Dogg —
this was when that whole "fershiz-
zle" thing of his was really popular:
"Welcome to Jacob's barmizzle; he
hasn't had this much fun since his
circumsizzle."
We pitched the idea to Mad, and
they said, "These sound like jokes
Chris Rock would do." So Josh and
I rented a lot of Chris Rock videos
and started copying his comedic
voice and the types of jokes he
would tell so we could write this
piece. It's sort of like the thing a
method actor would do.

Jfsi: Do you read
a lot of comic
books?

AK: A favorite of
mine is the Flaming
Carrot. I'm obsessed
with this comic book.
It's about a genius
who, on a dare, reads
500 comic books and
then becomes simple.
He wears a giant car-
rot mask and flippers
and fights crime.

JNI: What would be your
dream Job?
AK: I'd say a prime-time series. It

would have a science fiction, hor-
ror element, but it would be funny,
too. I really like shows that have a
rich, dense mythology to them.
It would star Adam Brody, Seth
Green, Topher Grace and Tobey
Maguire as leprechaun police-
men. The show would be called
LepreCOPS. Each week, the
LepreCOPS would solve a different
mythological themed crime, like
maybe a Minotaur who murdered
the bullfighter trying to tame him.
It would be like CS/ meets Darby
O'Gill and the Little People. And
just to spice things up, Aisha Tyler
would play a female leprechaun
who is ostracized because she's
way taller than any of the other
leprechauns, but the Seth Green
character is secretly in love with
her. Maybe she carries him in her
pocket when they go on patrol
together. Tell me you wouldn't
want to see that show, because I
would. RI