-

"Besides showing how I dance, I had Grand Rapids in 2006. The company's
to act without speaking and do some
artistic director, Gordon Peirce
tumbling before they chose me. In the
Schmidt, set the piece to classical
ballet, I am a boy who got away from
music, including Rossini's William
his nanny and went off with Peter Pan. Tell Overture, Gounod's Funeral March
It feels like play to be part of this."
for the Marionettes and Saint-Saens'
Seth, who has attended theater
Samson and Delilah.
camp at the Jewish Community Center,
At the end of the matinee perfor-
has entered dance competitions at
mance, a Peter Pan Parade will begin
schools and conventions, including the with audience members able to greet
Kids Artistic Revue. He has been high- the cast on stage. The company is con-
lighted in Dance Spirit magazine and
ducting ballet classes for kids ages 10-
his dream is to be a Broadway star.
13 at 11 a.m., and the fee is $15.
"Seth always has been passion-
"I think dancing is a fun exercise,"
ate about entertaining, and his dad
says Seth, who recently appeared in
(Scott) and I think it's wonderful that
a school play about Lewis and Clark.
he's doing so well;' says mom Stacy
"When I auditioned for the ballet, I
Weinstein, a nurse. "We are both
thought I would only have that expe-
encouraging him."
rience. Now, I'm so glad to be in the
Stage talent apparently comes from
cast."
Scott Weinstein's side of the family.
Scott, an engineer, appeared in
plays throughout his school years.
Peter Pan will be performed 2
Grandmother Livia Weinstein was a
and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1,
ballerina and now joins her husband,
at the Detroit Opera House, 1526
Donald, for community theater pro-
Broadway, in Detroit. $15-$35.
ductions in Maryland.
(313) 237-7464.
The Peter Pan ballet premiered in

by the biblical narrative. She depicts
this indeed comes about.
Elijah in hateful terms so different
Both the Bible and Hazelton go on
from the prophet we sing about at the
to tell about Ahab's death, his being
Passover seder, where we fill a cup of
succeeded by Azariah and then by
wine in his honor.
Joram, while Elisha takes on the
For Hazelton, Elijah is a funda-
prophet role of Elijah. It is Elisha who,
mentalist zealot who is the model for
in a small section of II Kings, arranges
today's extremists, fanatics
for Jehu, an army corn-
and bigots. He wore "pelts,
mander, to be anointed
still ripe with the blood of
king. Jehu then kills
the animals they'd come
Joram and comes to
from." His curse of drought
Jezebel's palace, where
is designed to punish the
he stops below her
Israelites and to "shock
balcony and orders the
them back into the true
eunuchs to throw her
faith."
down. She is trampled
The relief from his stag-
by the horses and eaten
gering curse takes place on
by the dogs.
Mount Carmel, where Elijah
Jehu rules for 28
wins a monumental vic-
years, but the Northern
tory over the priests of Baal, A new biography of a Kingdom is weakened
orders that they be killed
queen of Israel
and eventually disap-
and brings rain. He is ban-
pears, becoming the 10
ished by Jezebel, but this only sets the
lost tribes.
stage for his final triumph over her.
Hazelton concludes that Jezebel
Hazelton goes on to recount the
lives on through her grandniece Dido,
story of Naboth's vineyard, coveted by
founder of Carthage, and by the adap-
Ahab and obtained for him by Jezebel
tation of her name to Isabella (the
through arranging for its owner to
moniker of the Spanish queen who
be killed. In a somewhat strained
authorized the Inquisition). But most
interpretation, Hazelton claims that
of all, claims Hazelton, she lives on
this is the ancient counterpart of the
in "everyone who sees clear-eyed the
modern struggle between Israelis and
dangers of blind zealotry."
Palestinians over the Holy Land.
Whether or not she has succeeded
In the biblical story, God sends
in rehabilitating Jezebel is an open
Elijah to the vineyard to tell Ahab that
question, but Hazelton certainly
he will be destroyed and that disaster
has presented a powerful argument
will come to his son. Elijah adds that
against theocracy and for humanitari-
Jezebel will be devoured by dogs. All
anism. ❑

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