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beloved musicals in history. Guests
will receive copies of song lyrics
to sing along with "Matchmaker,
Matchmaker""Sunrise, Sunset" and all
the other favorites.
Tickets: $10; free for pass holders,
MusicFest patrons and Lenore Marwil
Film Festival patrons.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
8 p.m.: KlezmerFest with Yale Strom
and Hot Pstromi
West Bloomfield
Hot Pstromi, Yale Strom's New York-
based band, performs traditional
klezmer tunes, Sephardic melodies
and Strom's own compositions in an
eclectic mix of jazz, Gypsy, Arabic,
Balkan, Cajun and classical styles.
This performance also features the
Michigan premiere of Detroit native
Strom's new documentary, A Great Day
on Eldridge Street, the story of a one-
Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi
day gathering of klezmer musicians.
Tickets: $12 JCC members, students
and seniors in advance; $15 non-
members and at the door.
SUNDAY,
MARCH 8
7:30 p.m.: Jazz
at the J with
the Buddy
Budson Trio,
featuring
Ursula Walker
Oak Park
Buddy Budson and
The Buddy
Ursula Walker
Budson Trio
includes
Marion Hayden on bass, Bob Harsen
on drums and arranger-pianist-
bandleader Buddy Budson. For more
than 45 years, Budson has played jazz
piano throughout Metro Detroit. He
also appeared on tour with Buddy
Rich's big band and with the Four
Tops and has backed such artists
as Henry Mancini, Mel Torme and
Sammy Davis Jr. Budson's wife, Ursula
Walker, is a unique stylist of bal-
lads, standards and jazz who makes
frequent appearances at the Detroit
International Jazz Festival.
Tickets: $12 JCC members, students
and seniors in advance; $15 non-
members and at the door.
The Grand Rapids Ballet Company
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Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 12:00 Noon
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 5:00 pm
* Full length production * Lavish costumes
* Scenery that transforms the stage into a Middle Eastern landscape
* A full range of orchestral music
* A Genie of the Lamp that grows in stature through innovative puppetry
* Awesome choreography by Gordon Peirce Schmidt
* Magic Carpet Parade on stage following the performance
FREE Dance Talk one hour prior to performance
For Tickets and Pre-paid Parking in the Opera House Parking Center
Call 313.237.SING or visit michiganopera.org
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Tickets may be purchased at either JCC location (15110 W.10 Mile Road in
Oak Park or 6600 W. Maple Road in West Bloomfield); online at
www.jccdet.org ; or by phone at (248) 967-4030. MusicFest passes for
the entire series are available for $75 for JCC members and $90 for non-
members and must be purchased by Feb. 28. Valet parking is available for
a fee for all events at the JCC in West Bloomfield.
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happens when a young German
boy's mother responds to her son's
question about the whereabouts of
his Jewish best friend, whose fam-
ily has been put on a train for the
camps during World War II.
Trouble on the Water is nomi-
nated for best full-length docu-
mentary. It tells the tale of a New
Orleans couple who were caught
up in the Hurricane Katrina
disaster and how they've tried to
recover. The co-director-writer-
producer is Tia Lessin, 44, the
daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
Lessin says, "What we saw on
TV were helpless victims or crimi-
nal looters. But the people depict-
ed in [my] film were survivors.
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Holocaust, I sensed these were
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Producers & Miscellany
The Oscar for best picture goes to
the film's producers. Eric Feltner,
50, is one of the three produc-
ers of Frost/Nixon, a best picture
nominee. Feltner, a Brit, also pro-
duced Sixty Six, the story of a
British Jewish boy's bar mitzvah
that recently made it to DVD.
The Reader, about a German
woman (best actress nominee
Kate Winslet) who served as a
Nazi death camp guard, earned
five Oscar nominations, including
best picture. Sydney Pollack, the
film director-actor who died in
2008, is posthumously nominated
as one of the film's producers.
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