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BY DONALD MARGULIES

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Michigan Opera
Theatre's production
of Verdi's Rigoletto,
helmed by Jewish direc-
tor Bernard Uzan and
led by Jewish conductor
Steven Mercurio, takes the stage at the
Detroit Opera House 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
May 14; Wednesday, May 18; Friday, May
20; and Saturday, May 21; with a 2:30 p.m.
matinee Sunday, May 22. Opera talk one
hour before curtain. $25-$117. (313) 237-
7464; motopera.org .
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is
offering a special neighborhood subscrip-
tion series, all conducted by Leonard
Slatkin. Violinist Emmanuelle Boisvert
performs selections from Beethoven 7:30
p.m. Thursday, May 19, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in Southfield; and 3 p.m.
Sunday, May 22, at Seligman Performing
Arts Center in Beverly Hills. Pianist
Olga Kern performs selections from
Tchaikovsky 10:45 a.m. Friday, May 27,
at Dearborn Performing Arts Center in
Dearborn. Tickets: $25 general admission,
$10 students (any age), $50 preferred
seating. (313) 576-5111; dso.org .

PLAYING: MAY 11 - JUNE 5 5 2011

Directed by Lavinia Hart formerly Artistic Director, Attic Theatre

A masterful, dark comedy by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies. A husband and wife in
flight arriving at the promised land, a Florida condominium, find anything but the refuge they
desperately seek. When Lola says, "It's embarrassing to have to move people
around in the middle of the night," there's a muffled roar of something sharp
and regretful, hiding awful truths and simultaneously filled with hilarious, sad,
poignant images.

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More than 3,000
works by College
for Creative Studies
students will fill the A.
Alfred Taubman Center
for Design Education
in the annual student exhibition and
sale May 13-27. Collector's Preview &
Private Reception will be held 5:30-10
p.m. Friday, May 13 ($350), general
admission from 7-10 p.m. ($50). (313)
664-7464; collegeforcreativestudies.edu/
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Lansing photographer Arnold
Berkman displays his documentary
photographs of Route 66, the major
east-west highway between Chicago and
L.A. before it was replaced by the inter-
state highway system, capturing he says,
"the haunting spirit of what once was,
and the reality of what now is," through
May 28 at the Lawrence St. Gallery, 22620
Woodward, in Ferndale. (248) 544-0394;
lawrencestreetgallery.com .

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John Kander and Fred Ebb's Chicago,
Broadway's longest running musical
revival, brings its 1920s-era razzle-dazzle
— and Seinfeld actor John O'Hurley as
Billy Flynn — to the stage of Detroit's
Fisher Theatre 8 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2
and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 17-22. $29-$75. (313) 872-
1000; broadwayindetroit.com .
With songs by half-Jewish, half-Leba-
nese composer David Yazbek, the musi-
cal comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,
based on the movie about two con men
out to fleece rich women who summer
on the French Riviera, comes to Village
Players Playhouse, 34660 Woodward,
in Birmingham, 8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, May 13-29.
$17. (248) 644-2075;
birminghamvillageplayers.com .

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Inspired by the TV series Detroit 1-8-
7, Ferndale's Go Comedy! Improv
Theater, 261 E. Nine Mile, presents a
cast of six players in Ferndale 2-4-8,
a mixture of parody, song-and-dance
numbers and local social commentary
based on the gritty cop show about
Detroit but transplanted to Ferndale, 8
p.m. Thursdays-Fridays through May 27.
$10 Thursdays; $15 Fridays (show fol-
lowed by an improv performance). (248)
327-0575; gocomedy.net .

Arnold Berkman: Route 66 photo at

Ferndale's Lawrence St. Gallery.

Drawn from multiple area collections,
Art in Architecture: The Collaborative
Spirit of the Interwar Period in
Detroit, features Art Deco and revival
architecture, sculpture, furniture and
more. At the Marshall M. Fredericks
Sculpture Museum, 7400 Bay Valley, in
Saginaw, through May 28. (980) 964-
7125; sysu.edu/mfsm.
Founders Junior Council, a young
professionals auxiliary of the Detroit
Institute of Arts, hosts Cirque: Detroit
Unmasked 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Saturday, May
21, at the museum, with all proceeds
going to the DIA. DJ captn20 and per-
cussionist Jared Sykes will keep the
crowd on its feet. Dress is "imaginative
cocktail!' VIP tickets: $175, includes
access to an exclusive VIP lounge, cock-
tails and hors d'oeuvres. General admis-
sion tickets: $95, include hors d'oeuvres,
beer, wine and signature cocktails. Valet
parking will be provided for all guests.
(313) 833-4025; cirquedetroit2011.com .

FAMILY FUN

The Detroit Zoo and the Michigan
Humane Society, in collaboration with
more than 20 local animal welfare organi-
zations, host the 19th annual spring Meet