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is & F,
Looking for something to do over the holi-
days? Here are some special suggestions
categorized by interest.
For Theatergoers
AIDS Partnership Michigan, an HIV-AIDS
organization serving southeast Michigan,
and Broadway Cares-Equity Fights AIDS,
the nation's leading industry-based AIDS
fundraising and grant-making organiza-
tion, will be the recipients of the fundrais-
ing benefit The Lion Sings Tonight! 7
p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, at the Gem Theatre,
333 Madison Ave., in Detroit. Doors open
at 6 p.m.
The cast of The Lion King (including
Jewish actor Ben Lipitz, out of his Pumbaa
warthog costume), currently entertain-
ing audiences at the Detroit Opera House
through Jan. 6, will perform their favorite
selections from Broadway shows and
more. The night includes a silent auction
and a post-show reception at the adjoining
Century Grille Restaurant. Tickets are $50:
(313) 963-9800 or www.ticketmaster.com .
Laced with wit, insight, compassion
and searing honesty, playwright David
Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole is an
intensely emotional play that examines
one family's grief. Nominated for five 2006
Tony Awards, it makes its Michigan pre-
miere, directed by Leo Geter, Jan. 9-Feb. 3
at Meadow Brook Theatre on the campus
of Oakland University in Rochester Hills.
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The cast includes
Chip DuFord (Dr.
Watson in MBT's
fall production of
Sherlock Holmes: The
Final Adventure), vet-
eran Jewish actress
Henrietta Hermelin
(in the role created
by Tyne Daly on Broadway), Sarah Kamoo,
Sean O'Reilly and Inga Wilson. $22-$38.
(248) 377-3300 or www.ticketmaster.com .
For Music Lovers
Performer-composer-arranger-producer
Barry Manilow turns 65 in June. But he's
nowhere near ready for retirement. He's
still recording new albums; in the past
two years alone, his three tribute compi-
lations of the greatest songs of the '50s,
'60s and '70s have reached best-seller
status. Manilow appears in concert, in
"An Evening of Music and Passion': 8 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Palace of Auburn
Hills. Tickets are $149, $89, $49 and $9.99.
(248) 645-6666.
Since making its debut as the
Kalichstein Laredo Robinson Trio at
the White House for President Carter's
inauguration in January 1977, pianist
Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jamie Laredo
and cellist Sharon Robinson have set the
standard for performance of piano trio
literature. In celebration of the trio's 30th
-
-
anniversary, Jewish
composer Richard
Danielpour (who wrote
the music for the opera
Margaret Garner that
debuted at the Detroit
Opera House) has writ-
ten a composition for
the trio titled The Book
of Hours. It represents a 24-hour cycle and
was written to be a remembrance that
"all things live and die, and live again"
The trio will perform The Book of Hours,
with violist Kirsten Johnson, along with
works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, in a
Chamber Music Society of Detroit concert
beginning 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at the
Seligman Performing Arts Center, 22305
W. 13 Mile Road, in Beverly Hills. Tickets:
$43-$75; students, $25. (248) 855-6070 or
www.comehearcmsd.org.
Opera lovers will enjoy the second
season of Metropolitan Opera: Live in
High Definition, which kicks off 1 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 15, with Gounod's Romeo
and Juliette, starring Anna Netrebko and
Roberto Alagna and conducted by Placido
Domingo. It is the first of the Met's eight
live opera transmissions to movie theaters
across the world planned for this season.
There will be a new English-language
production of Humperdinck's Hansel and
Gretel for audiences of all ages 1 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 1. $22 adults, $20 seniors,
$15 children. For a complete schedule of
operas and to locate the movie theater
near you, go to www.metopera.org .
Also for the family, favorite scenes from
the Barbie Princess movies come to life on
a giant screen as the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra plays short classical pieces in a
concert titled "Barbie at the Symphony"
Violinist-composer Arnie Roth conducts
3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23, at Orchestra Hall.
Tickets: adults, $22.50-$53.50; children,
$12.50-$43.50. (313) 576-5111 or
www.detroitsymphony.com .
For Movie Buffs
The Detroit Historical Society's author
series continues with Michael Hauser,
co-author of Detroit's Downtown Movie
Palaces, 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, at
the Detroit Historical Museum. Hauser,
curator of the "Detroit: The Reel Story"
exhibit currently on display at the muse-
um, will recount the story of how Detroit
was once home to one of America's pre-
mier entertainment districts, with down-
town movie palaces crafted by renowned
architects and rivaling those in New York
and Chicago. Free for DHS members; $10
guests. (313) 833-7935.
For The Chucklehead
Laugh in the New Year with the Ann Arbor
debut of popular comic Cash Levy, a fre-
quent guest on cable (Comedy Central's
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Special to the Jewish News
sg2 Jewish Wedding
Julianna Margulies, 41, who's still
Cla
best known for playing Nurse Carol
11; Hathaway on TV's ER, married lawyer
Keith Lieberthal,
who is in his mid-
30s, on Nov.17. Her
father told People
magazine: "It was
all traditional ...
She was radiant.
It was beautiful.
We're thrilled for
Julianna
her, and the young
Margulies and
man she married
Keith Lieberthal
is a wonderful
person. We're proud to have him as a
part of our family." (This is Margulies'
first marriage. She is pregnant with
her new husband's child, due this
winter.)
The groom is the son of Dr.
Kenneth Lieberthal, a China expert
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who teaches political science at the
University of Michigan. Professor
Lieberthal was on the board of direc-
tors and is a former vice president
of Beth Israel Congregation in Ann
Arbor.
A personal source tells me the
couple had a Jewish wedding cer-
emony. With the groom growing up
in an affiliated Jewish household, it's
a reasonable assumption Julianna
now identifies as Jewish despite a
very odd background. Her parents
were both born Jewish and divorced
when Julianna was very young. Her
mother converted to Christianity
when Julianna was 5. In a 1998
interview, Margulies said she "was
not raised Jewish" (leaving unclear if
she was raised in any faith) and that
she didn't practice any religion as an
adult.
Margulies had to forego a honey-
moon to resume filming of her new
Fox TV series, Canterbury's Law, in
which she stars as a defense attor-
ney. The series debuts in January and
co-stars Ben Shenkman (Angels in
America).
Buddhist Chanukah
As I write this, singer-songwriter
Leonard Cohen, 73, is a nominee
for admission into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame (the entrants
will be announced today, Dec.13).
Cohen, composer
of classic tunes
like "Suzanne"
and "Hallelujah,"
continues to be a
strong influence on
new generations of
singer-songwriters.
In the mid-'90s,
Leonard Cohen
Cohen spent five
years at a Buddhist
monastery to study with the head
monk, a man Cohen said he would
have studied with no matter what his
religion. Cohen said, "I'm not looking
for a new religion. I'm quite happy
with the old one, with Judaism."
Cohen tells a Chanukah anecdote in
the 2005 documentary film Leonard
Cohen: I'm Your Man. He was startled
one night to hear two men outside
the but he lived in on the monastery
grounds. They were Chasids who had
walked up snowy mountain roads to
the hilltop monastery because they
heard there "was a Jew in trouble."
Cohen told them they were prob-
ably looking for him and that he was
not in trouble, as he pointed to the lit
Chanukah menorah in his hut. Then,
they just talked and shared some
schnapps.
Jewsploitation Flicks
Adam Sandler has partnered with the
red-hot Judd Apatow (Knocked Up)
to write You Don't Mess with Zohan.
Sandler stars as an Israeli commando
who fakes his own death in order to
start a new life in New York as a hair
stylist. Zohan is now filming.
Holy Rollers follows a naive young