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workforce and gaining
independence, Respect: A
The voice of women in Top-40 popular
Musical Journey traces
music in the first half of the 20th century
their development through
was often one of neediness and dependen- music, from "Someone to
cy: "I Wanna Be Loved By You:' Watch Over Me" to "I Will
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best
Survive."
Friend;' "I Will Follow Him:'
Vanderbilt professor Dr.
"Stand by Your Man." Things Dorothy Marcic created
had changed dramatically
the show based on her book, Respect:
by the end of the century,
Women and Popular Music, in which
as women were urged to
she analyzed all Top-40 female song lyr-
stand up for themselves ics since 1900. A well-regarded academic,
and make it with or
she has traveled the U.S. and the world,
without a man: "I Am
including a stop in Israel, with her one-
Woman,""What's Love
woman show, The Musical History of
Got to Do With It7These Women.
Boots Are Made for Walkin'."
Respect, now in previews at Detroit's
Combining excerpts
Gem Theatre, officially opens — in an
of about 50 songs with
open-ended run like its predecessor
women's own stories
Menopause the Musical — Feb. 15
about finding dreams,
and stars Shonka Dukureh, Sara Madej,
lost love, relationship
Marilyn Sanchez and Kelly Shook. It is
issues, entering the
directed by three-time Tony Award winner
Hinton Battle, currently being seen in the
Respect traces
film Dreamgirls as Wayne, the assistant
a century of
to Curtis, the Berry Gordy Jr.-like charac-
American
ter played by Jamie Foxx.
women's
Show times are 8 p.m. Wednesdays,
music.
2 and 8 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays,

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Nate Bloom
I Special to the Jewish News

More Heroes

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On Jan. 29, Jessalyn Gilsig, 36,
a very pretty actress who was a
regular on TV's Boston Public and
Nip/Tuck, joined
the cast of the hit
NBC show Heroes
as the mother of
teenage "hero"
Claire Bennett
(Hayden Panttiere).
Gilsig was born
Jessalyn Gilsig
in Montreal, the
daughter of a
Jewish father and a non-Jewish
mother. She grew up celebrating
some Jewish holidays.
In 2005, she married Jewish pro-
ducer Bobby Salomon in a Jewish
wedding, and the couple had a
daughter last September. Salomon,
Gilsig says, was the "cool guy" in
their Montreal high school (quar-
terback of the football team), and
they briefly dated in high school.

February 8 2007

3 and 8 p.m.
Saturdays and
2 and 5:30 p.m.
Sundays. All
tickets are $39.50
(half-price pre-
Gail Zimmerman
view tickets are
Arts Editor
available Feb.
8 and 9). Girls
Night Out (10-14 people) and group (15+
people) rates are available. For tickets,
call the box office, (313) 963-9800. For
dining, pre- and post-show packages, call
the box office or go to gemtheatre.com/
GemGroupDiningPacks.htm.

Fly Away

Longtime Detroit broadcaster Sonny
Eliot hosts Yankee Movie Night, a ben-
efit evening for the Yankee Air Museum,
in Hangar 2 of Willow Run Airport, 6
p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10. The museum was
destroyed by fire on Oct. 9, 2004, but many
of its pristine and still flyable planes sur-
vived the blaze; the organization plans to
rebuild.
Attendees will see — while sitting
among the B-17 Yankee Lady, B-25D
Yankee Warrior and C-47 Yankee Doodle

He called her when he moved
to Hollywood in 2002, and their
friendship soon became a renewed
romance.
On Feb.19, Heroes will introduce
Israeli character Hana Gitelman, a
new "hero." Hana's grandmother
fought the Nazis, and her mother
fought in the Six-Day War. Both
were killed in a Palestinian terrorist
attack, which Hana survived. Playing
Hana is actress Stana Katic.

Grammys, Part II

The Grammy Awards will be pre-
sented in a CBS broadcast airing 8-11
p.m. Sunday,
Feb. 11. Here
are a few more
of the Jewish
nominees:
Michael
Michael Brecker
Brecker, a
great saxo-
phonist and the winner of 11 Grammy
Awards, is up posthumously for
a Grammy for best instrumental
jazz solo performance for the song

"Some Skunk Funk," from his broth-
er-trumpeter Randy Brecker's nomi-
nated CD (for best performance by a
jazz ensemble) of the same name.
During his career, Michael Brecker
played with a who's who of top rock
and jazz acts. He died last month, at
age 59, of a rare blood disease.
Before he died, thousands of Jews
answered a plea from the Brecker
family to be tested to see if a bone
marrow match could be found for
Michael. A partial match was found,
but it wasn't close enough to save
Michael's life (no doubt others will be
saved because of the big increase in
the Jewish registry database).
Michael, who sometimes played on
Jewish music CDs, was a member of
a suburban New York synagogue.
Matisyahu, 28, the Chasidic reg-
gae music star, is up for a 2006
Grammy for best reggae album of
the year (Youth). He recently was
named Billboard magazine's "2006
Reggae Artist of the Year."
The rock-pop singer called Pink
(born Alecia Beth Moore) will

Dandy aircraft — the classic film The
Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen,
James Garner, Charles Bronson and James
Coburn; the movie tells the true story of
one of the largest prisoner of war escape
attempts of World War II.
Eliot will share some of his wartime
experiences before the screening. A B-
24 bomber pilot during World War II,
the Jewish aviator was shot down over
Germany and spent 18 months as a pris-
oner of war in Stalagluft I.
Guests are encouraged to bring lawn
chairs; popcorn and refreshments will be
served by the Yankee Air Museum.
Tickets are $5 for Yankee Air Museum
members, $10 for nonmembers. Call (734)
483-4030 for information and tickets,
which will be held at the door; doors open
at 5 p.m. For more information on the
Yankee Air Museum, visit
www.YankeeAirMuseum.org .

Play Bouquet

The Purple Rose Theatre Company pres-
ents Frank Gilroy's drama The Subject
Was Roses Feb. 8-March 17.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New
York Drama Critics' Circle Award and the

appear as an award presenter at the
Grammys. Pink, 27, who has sold 20
million albums, is up for a Grammy
for best female pop vocal perfor-
mance (for the song Stupid Girls).
Pink's mother is Jewish, but Pink
was raised in and practices no faith.
After Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic
remarks last year, she was quoted
as saying: "I'm a fan of [Gibson's]
work. I think anybody with opinions
like that needs well wishing. And I'm
Jewish. Alcohol makes you do crazy
things."

Designer Notes

The new Bravo
cable channel series
Top Design, which
began airing at the
end of January, is
another "occupa-
Jonathan Adler tional reality game
show." In this one,
talented young interior designers are
given a weekly design challenge and
vie to be judged the best.
They will compete over the course