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Classical

The Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony
Orchestra concludes its 2010-2011 season
7 p.m. Sunday, April 17, with an evening of
music from or about America, conducted
by Charles Greenwell and featuring vio-
list and BBSO 2011 Young Artist String
Competition Winner Abigail Elder. Groves
High School, 20500 W. 13 Mile Road, in
Beverly Hills. Adults: $27; free 18 and
under. (248) 352-2276; www.bbso.org .
Tickets also may be purchased at the door.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has
announced that single ticket prices to all
remaining classical and pops concerts for
the remainder of its spring season will be
$20 each. (313) 576-5111; detroitsymphony.
corn.

Pop/Rock/Jazz

Ann Arbor native and
new soul sensation
Mayer Hawthorne (born
Andrew Mayer Cohen)
is among the headliners
at this year's 20th anni-
Michael
versary Detroit Music
Harpaz
Awards, scheduled for 7
p.m. Friday, April 15, at
the Fillmore Detroit. $20.
Livenation.com .
Tel Aviv pop musician
Michael Harpaz — who
spent his growing-up
years in Huntington
Woods — returns to the
Anat Cohen
old neighborhood for a
one-night-only acoustic
concert 9 p.m. Saturday, April 16, at AJ's
Music Cafe, 240 W. Nine Mile Road, in
Ferndale. $20 at the door. (248) 399-3946.
Best known as Peter from Peter, Paul, &
Mary, Peter Yarrow's current tour is among
his first appearances since the death of
Mary Travers in 2009. The folk-music icon
performs 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 17, at the

Ark, 316 S. Main St., in
Saturday, April 29-30, at the
downtown Ann Arbor.
Burton Theatre, 3420 Cass
$35. (734) 761-1800;
Ave., in Detroit. On May 1, fol-
theark.org.
lowing the theatrical run, The
Voted Clarinetist of
Bicyclist will be made avail-
the Year 2010 by readers
able for download at the film's
Gail Zimmerman
of Downbeat Magazine,
website:
Arts Editor
jazz performer Anat
www.thebicyclistmovie.com .
Cohen, also an accom-
plished tenor saxophonist, and her group
The Art Scene
perform a unique blend of Brazilian choro,
Argentine tango and Afro-Cuban styles 8
The Detroit Institute of Arts will host
p.m. Thursday, April 21, at Orchestra Hall in Thomas P. Campbell, director of the
Detroit. (313) 576-5111;
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as
detroitsymphony.com .
guest speaker for the annual Dr. Coleman
Mopper Memorial Lecture 2 p.m. Saturday,
April
16. Campbell will reflect on the ideas,
On The Stage
ambitions and tastes that have shaped the
The U-M Musical Theater Department
Met and how its rich and colorful 140-year
presents Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick
history informs the present and his future
Loewe's romantic musical Brigadoon,
vision for the museum. The lecture, in mem-
about two Americans who stumble upon an ory of Shirley Mopper, Coleman Mopper's
enchanted village while hiking in Scotland,
wife, who died last year, is free with DIA
7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and
admission: $8, adults; $4, ages 6-17; free, DIA
8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, April
members. dia.org.
14-17, at the Power Center in Ann Arbor.
$18-$24; $9, students. (734) 764-2538;
Laugh Lines
music.umich.edu.
A former finalist on
the NBC reality show
The Big Screen
Last Comic Standing,
The Bicyclist, a locally
Gary Gutman offers his
made film co-directed,
irreverent observations
co-written and co-
:" about everyday life 8
Bill Maher
produced by John
p.m. Friday ($11; $13
Wilberding and Oren
reserved) and 8 p.m.
Goldenberg, with cin-
Saturday
and
Sunday
($14; $16 reserved),
Oren
ematography and edit-
April 14-16, at Ann Arbor Comedy
Goldenberg
ing by Goldenberg, was
Showcase, 314 E. Liberty (below Seva
named Best Film at the
Restaurant), in Ann Arbor. (734) 996-9080;
2011 Detroit Independent Film Festival. The
aacomedy.com .
film, in which a bicyclist takes viewers on
Comedian and political satirist Bill
his journey of discovery as he tries to relive
Maher, host of HBO's Real Time With Bill
a dead brother's 250-mile bike ride to the
Maher, takes the stage 8 p.m. Saturday,
Mackinac Bridge, screens 9 p.m. Thursday,
April 16, at the Michigan Theater in Ann
April 21 and 28, at the Main Art Theatre, 118
Arbor. Reserved seats: $46.50-$67.50.
N. Main, in Royal Oak; and 8 p.m. Friday and (800) 745-3000; Livenation.com .

Benefits

The Detroit Zoo's Spring Fling, a
21-and-older professional networking
event benefiting the Detroit Zoological
Society and featuring drinks and hors
d'oeuvres, will be held in the Zoo's
Wildlife Interpretive Gallery 6:30-9:30
p.m. Thursday, April 21. Tickets are $15
for Detroit Zoo, After 5 Detroit, Detroit
Young Professionals and Fusion members
and $20 for nonmembers. Tickets can be
purchased in advance online at
detroitzoo.org or at the door for $20 for
all guests. For more information, call
(248) 541-5717 and press 3.
Comedienne Joan Rivers will be the
featured speaker at the 17th Annual
Planned Parenthood Mid and South
Michigan Tribute Luncheon noon
Tuesday, April 26, at the Troy Marriott,
200 West Big Beaver Road, in Troy.
Proceeds benefit a full range of health
care and information services, including
breast and cervical cancer screenings,
Pap tests, birth control, prenatal care and
comprehensive sexual health education.
Tickets start at $85, with patron spon-
sorships ranging from $150 to $5,000.
plannedparenthood.org/midsouthmi.
Benefiting the Detroit Opera
House and Michigan Opera Theatre,
BravoBravo! 2011: On Location goes
Hollywood 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 3, at the
opera house, which will be transformed
into a glittering movie set. Guests will
enjoy food from more than 40 top Detroit
restaurants, entertainment in every
room and libations from the best local
bars. Tickets are $90 in April, $100 in
May and $110 in June. (313) 237-7464;
MichiganOpera.org . i I

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Passover Light

For two years running, Pulitzer Prize-
, winning humorist Dave Barry, who
lam describes himself as an atheist, has
42) come up with very funny Passover-
related remarks. The
son of a Presbyterian
minister, Barry
has been married
to Miami Herald
(and former Freep)
sportswriter Michelle
Kaufman since 1996.
They
had a daugh-
Michelle
ter,
Sophie,
in 2000.
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Sophie is being raised Jewish, and
Barry sometimes accompanies his
wife and child to synagogue services.
On April 2, Barry did a radio
interview held before a live Miami
audience. He was asked if he would
ever leave Miami. "No," he replied,
"because my wife won't let me. My
wife is really rooted here. She's Cuban
Jewish. Juban, they call them. Yes,
there are Jubans in the audience.
They didn't come over on rafts; they
parted the Caribbean."
In 2010, Barry told the New York
Times: "My wife is Jewish; and when
it's Passover, we'll have a house full of
people eating roofing materials for a
week. I keep telling them: 'Come over

to the lapsed-Presbyterian side. We
can eat anything."

Reiser Returns

Comedian-actor Paul Reiser (Mad
About You) returns to TV in the new
NBC sitcom The Paul Reiser Show
8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14. He plays
a version of himself – his character is
called Paul Reiser, and he is the for-
mer star of Mad About You. (Shades
of Curb Your Enthusiam?)
He has a nice wife (played by Amy
Landecker, the daughter of John
Landecker, a famous Chicago DJ who
was born and raised in Michigan), two
nice young kids and a bunch of nice
buddies he hangs with (including Ben

Shenkman, 42).
The question Reiser asks in the
series preview is: "I have everything I
want. What do I do now?"
In real life, Reiser does seem to have
it all – he's been married to Paula
Ravets, a psychologist, since 1988,
and they have two sons,15 and 10.
In 2009, Reiser and his whole family
visited Israel
during Passover.
He also was in
Israel in 1984,
when Ravets, his
then-girlfriend,
was study-
ing at Tel Aviv
Paul and Paula
University.
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