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Celebrating their
50th anniversary
in 2011, the Beach
Boys perform at
DTE Energy Music
Theatre 8 p.m.
Friday, July 29.
$15-$37.50 pavil-
Drake performs
ion/$15 lawn.
Aug. 4 at the
(800) 745-3000;
Caesars Windsor
palacenet.com.
Coliseum.
Rock band
Journey, in sup-
port of its latest release, Eclipse, brings
the "Eclipse Tour" to DTE Energy Music
Theatre with Foreigner and special guest
Night Ranger 7 p.m. Sunday, July 31.
Relatively new to Foreigner is keyboardist
and vocalist Michael Bluestein, who joined
the group in 2008. $35-$135 pavilion/$25
lawn. (800) 745-3000; palacenet.com .
A favorite of Prince William's, electron-
ic-tinged British singer-songwriter Ellie
Goulding performed at the royal wed-
ding in April. In May, she was the musical
guest on the season finale of Saturday
Night Live. After performances at both
Coachella and South By Southwest ear-
lier this spring, she'll find herself back
in front of large crowds at Lollapalooza
next month. But you can catch her locally
on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at the Royal Oak
Music Theatre. Doors at 7 p.m. All-ages,
general-admission tickets: $22/$25 day of
show. (248) 399-2980;
royaloakmusictheatre.com .
Tim Robbins and the Rogues
Gallery Band
yes, Oscar-winning
—
actor Tim Robbins — perform 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 3, at the Ark in Ann
141R11
Arbor. Accompanying
One-Act Play Festival
himself on slide gui-
at the Village Players
tar, singer-songwriter
Playhouse, 34660
Robbins composed the
Woodward, Birmingham.
Americana-laced sto-
In Matzoh Brei, archi-
rytelling songs on the
tect/playwright Stephen
Gail Zimmerman
band's eponymous first
Sussman of Bloomfield
EJ
album. $35. (734) 761-
Township sets the action
1800; theark.org.
over Passover as two adult
After a 10-year absence from the stage, daughters, visiting from out of town,
English R&B band Sade is back, with
meet their divorced father's new girl-
special guest and fellow Grammy winner
friend. "Family and individual issues
John Legend, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.
are the focus in often humorous ways in
3, at the Palace of Auburn Hills. $52.50-
this character- and relationship-driven
$152.50. (800) 745-3000; palacenet.com .
one-act," says Sussman, also acting as the
Son of a Jewish mother and an
production's co-producer and assistant
African-American father, hip-hop super-
director. $10. (248) 644-2075;
star Drake
like a nice Jewish boy,
birminghamvillageplayers.corn.
he took his mom to this year's Grammy
Inspired by the larger-than-life fig-
Awards — performs 8 p.m. Thursday,
ures of Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane and
Aug. 4, on the stage of Caesars Windsor
Buffalo Bill, the spaghetti westerns of the
Coliseum. Tickets start at $85.
1960s and the imagery of writers Cormac
caesarswindsor.corn.
McCarthy and William S. Burroughs,
Manifest Destiny! (there was blood
ON THE STAGE
on the saddle), an original premiere
production of the Hinterlands, a Detroit-
The artistic efforts
based theater company, is equal parts
of a local architect, "Wild West Show and cultural scavenger
a retired news-
hunt:' says Co-Artistic Director Richard
paper executive,
Newman. Weaving spectacle, vaudevil-
a retired medi-
lian comedy, sing-alongs, pseudo-history,
cal physicist and
puppetry, feats of strength and skill, and
a former high-
dreamlike imagery, Manifest Destiny
school Spanish
"blows the lid off the myths of the Old
Stephen Sussman:
teacher will be
West and questions what it means to be
See his one-act
on display 8
American in the 21st century!" 8 p.m.
play, Matzoh Brei,
p.m. Friday and
Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 4-6 and 25-27,
July 29-31 at the
Saturday and
at the historic Jam Handy Film Studio.
Village Players
2 p.m. Sunday,
$15. Reservations: (313) 454-1756;
Playhouse, in
July 29-31, in
info@thehinterlandsensemble.org.
Birmingham
Playwrights at
Tickets also will be available at the door,
Work (P@W)/
cash or check only.
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THE BIG SCREEN
Be the first to experience Glee: The 3D
Concert Movie, filmed during the cast's
recent 40-show worldwide tour, on Aug.
10, two days prior to the film's worldwide
launch. Ticket holders for these special
screenings will get a merchandise packet
created especially for the event. Go to
gleeksneak3d.com; ticket sales end Aug. 2.
LAUGH LINES
Ferndale's Go Comedy! Improv Theatre
presents its latest original production,
ROGOCOP! The Musical, a parody of
the movie Robocop, in which a robotic
police officer protects a futuristic Detroit
from crime, 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday
through Aug. 26. $5-$15. (248) 327-0575;
gocomedy.net.
THE ART SCENE
Named one of the top 100 art shows in
the country for four years in a row by
Sunshine Artist Magazine, the Orchard
Lake Fine Art Show returns to West
Bloomfield this year (Powers and Daly
roads, south of Maple and west of Orchard
Lake Road) with a juried show of more
than 200 artists in all media, live enter-
tainment and kids' activities. Show hours:
6-9 p.m. Friday, July 29 (artist preview
open to all with a $5 donation in support
of the nonprofit Institute for the Arts &
Education); and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday
and 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Sunday, July 30-31
($5 donation suggested). (248) 685-3748;
HotWorks.org.
The University of Michigan Museum
of Art presents the exhibition Multiple
4i ews
um I Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
xi Film Notes
Cowboys and Aliens, an action/sci-fi
W adventure from a 2006 graphic novel
of the same name, opens Friday, July
CD 29.
The screenplay was co-written
by Damon Lindelof (Lost), 38; Alex
Kurtzman, 37; and Roberto Orci. The
latter two met in high school and
have been team for a decade, writ-
ing sci-fi hits including Star Trek for
J.J. Abrams and
Transformers for
Michael Bay. The
director is sometime-
actor Jon Favreau,
44, who is now hot
as the director of
mega-hit Iron Man
movies.
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The basic plot: A stranger (Daniel
Craig, recently married in real life
to actress Rachel Weisz) cannot
remember much when he wanders
into an Arizona desert town in 1873.
(Running the town with an iron fist
is Col. Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford,
69). Everyone is mean to the stranger
–until space aliens attack the town.
The stranger begins to recover his
memory and with that, a way to fight
the aliens, as he forges a coalition of
cowboys, townsfolk and Apache war-
riors to battle the outer-space baddies.
Before Iron Man,
Favreau directed the
fantasy-comedy Elf
(2003) and Zathura
(2005), a big-budget,
sci-fi adventure star-
ring Jonah Bobo,
then 8. Bobo, who
has relatives in Metro
Jonah Bobo
Detroit, was raised in a New York
Orthodox Jewish home; his great-
grandparents were Syrian Jews who
came to America a century ago.
Bobo, now 14, has a big supporting
role in the romantic comedy Crazy,
Stupid, Love, also opening on July 29.
He plays "Robbie," the teenage son
of Cal Weaver (Steve Carrell) and his
wife, Emily (Julianne Moore). On the
surface, the Weavers are a perfect
couple. But when Cal discovers that
Emily has been unfaithful, he files
for divorce and hits the singles bars,
coached by the smooth and hand-
some Jacob (Ryan Gosling).
Meanwhile, Robbie is smitten with
his 17-year-old babysitter, who has a
crush on Cal. The original screenplay
is by Dan Fogelman (Cars), 40.
Terri is an indie film about an
overweight teen taunted by his
high-school peers. His vice princi-
pal (John C. Reilly)
takes an interest in
him and helps him
through this difficult
time. Terri, in turn,
befriends two other
misfits, including a
beautiful girl stuck
Azazel Jacobs
with the "school
tramp" label. The director is Azazel
Jacobs, 38.
Jacobs, who wrote the film's origi-
nal story, is the son of famous avant-
garde "non-narrative" filmmaker Ken
Jacobs, 78, and his wife, painter Flo
Jacobs.
"We're classic Jewish artist intel-
lectuals," says the elder Jacobs. "Aza
was not raised with a sense of religion,
but he was raised with a sense of
morality." On his 13th birthday, Azazel
was taken to a showing of Shoah, the
Holocaust documentary.