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tions and eight cast
albums. Produced by
John Freedson and
Harriet Yellin and
continually updated
by Alessandrini, it
has become New
York's longest run-
ning musical comedy
revue and the recipient of Drama Desk,
OBIE, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics
Circle awards. Featuring "unknown" actors
who have gone on to stardom, the show
receives visits from many of the legendary
"victims" it parodies.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
presents a new symphonic version of
Forbidden Broadway 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Thursday, 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday
and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 3-6, in Orchestra
Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center.
The POPS Series concerts feature the DSO
and a cast of top Broadway song-and-
dance pros.
Shows to be celebrated (and made fun
of) in this production include Fiddler on
the Roof Les Miserables, Chicago, Hello
Dolly, Annie, West Side Story and Guys and
Dolls — all by Jewish composers — as

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The cast of Forbidden Broadway

All In Fun

Forbidden Broadway, the musical comedy
that that has poked fun at Broadway's big-
gest shows and brightest stars for 25 years
— Angela Lansbury, whom it has lam-
pooned, presented the show and its cre-
ator, Gerard Alessandrini, with a 2006 spe-
cial Tony Award for "Continued Excellence
in the Theatre" — has generated 18 edi-

Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

well as Cats, Phantom
of the Opera and The
Lion King. Incarnations
of Barbra Streisand,
Liza Minnelli, Sarah
Brightman, Ethel
Merman and others will
take the stage.
Tickets are $15-$70
(a limited number of box seats available
from $65-$100). (313) 576-5111 or www.
detroitsymphony. corn.

Dire Diagnosis

Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor at the
New Republic. In his new book, Sick: The
Untold Story of America's Health Care
Crisis (HarperCollins; $25.95), he reports
on how America's system for financing
medical care helps determine who gets
proper medical attention — and who
does not. Traveling across the U.S. — the
only country in the developed world that
does not guarantee access to medical care
as a right of citizenship — Cohn investi-
gates why this crisis is happening, report-
ing firsthand the stories of the people who
engineered the current health care system

co-writer of Kissing
Jessica Stein, a

Series Scoops

Jennifer Westfeldt, 37, co-stars
in the ABC series Notes from the
Underbelly, which
premiered earlier
this month. The
show chronicles
her character's
pregnancy and how
it affects her and
her marriage. As of
Jennifer
press time, Notes
Westfeldt
airs 8:30 p.m.
Wednesdays, but check your listings.
Past episodes can be viewed on the
broadband player on the ABC Web
site, abc.go.com .
Westfeldt, who is Jewish on her
mother's side and identifies as
Jewish, is best known as the star and

2001 indie film hit
about a heterosex-
ual young Jewish
woman who has a
lesbian fling.
Also go to the
Shiri Appleby
ABC Web site if
you are a fan of Six Degrees, a TV
series that was canceled early this
month. You can find five never-aired
episodes that will be available on the
site beginning April 27. Two episodes
feature Jewish actor Josh Charles

(Sports Night).

For me, the "find" in Six Degrees
was actress Shiri Appleby, 28, who
guest-starred in several episodes and
showed that she's matured from the
cute college-type she played in TV's
Roswell into a sexy dramatic actress.
Enter her name on YouTube and you'll

easily find a compilation of some of
her better Six Degrees scenes.

Film Notes

Michael Rosenbaum, 34, a handsome
and competent actor, has played Lex
Luthor on the TV show Smallville
since it began in 2001. No doubt
Smallville has made Rosenbaum
wealthy, but it's surprising he didn't
take advantage of
the publicity buzz he
received when the
show started – he
has hardly acted
outside the show, let
alone found some
good movie parts.
Michael
Rosenbaum's new
Rosenbaum
film, Kickin' It Old
Skool, opens Friday, April 27, but don't
look for it to bolster Rosenbaum's
career. Jamie Kennedy plays a guy

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and its impact on the everyday people
who have suffered from it.
In Boston, for example, a heart attack
victim becomes a casualty of emergency
room overcrowding when she is turned
away from the one hospital that could
treat her. In South Central L.A., a security
guard loses part of his vision when he
can't find affordable treatment for his
diabetes. In the heartland, a retired meat-
packer sells his house to pay for the medi-
cations that keep him and his aging wife
alive. And, in a tiny village tucked into
the Catskill Mountains, a mother of three
young children decides against a costly
doctor's visit — and lets a deadly cancer
go undetected — because her husband's
high-tech job no longer provides health
insurance.
In addition to describing how private
insurers decide who and what they will
— and will not — cover, Cohn also exam-
ines how rising health-care costs lead cor-
porations to seek ways to deny coverage to
employees, such as hiring full-time work-
ers as temps or independent contractors
without health insurance.
He points out the failures of managed
care, as well. By 1997, two-thirds of HMOs

who was a grade-
school breakdance
champion in the
mid-'80s. An acci-
dent puts him in a
coma, and he wakes
up in the present
to find that his
girlfriend is now
David S. Goyer
engaged to marry
Rosenbaum, his old grade-school
nemesis.
Opening the same day is The
Invisible, directed by David S. Gayer,
who specializes in superheroes and
fantasy. In this film, a high-school stu-
dent is attacked and hovers between
life and death. While those around him
assume he is dead, his spirit is still on
Earth and tries to help those seeking
to find his attacker.
Goyer, who grew up in Ann Arbor,
wrote the scripts for the box-office

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