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CLASSICAL NOTES
Chamber Music Society of Detroit
opens it season with violinist James
Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong,
performing works by Tartini, Beethoven,
Paganini and Elgar, 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept.
10, at the Seligman Performing Arts
Center on the campus of Deroit Country
Day School, 22305 13 Mile Road, Beverly
Hills. $43-$75/$25 students. (248) 855-
6070; comehearcmsd.org .
ROCK / POP / JAZZ / FOLK
Elton John performs solo in a "Greatest
Hits Live" concert, featuring No. 1 hits
and classic album tracks from throughout
his five-decade career, 8 p.m. Saturday,
Sept. 10, at the WFCU Centre in Windsor.
$93.25/$153.25 Canadian. (866) 969-9328;
wfcu-centre.com.
ON THE STAGE
The Andiamo Novi Theatre brings four
new productions to the stage this fall
and winter. Three shows in the series will
be produced and directed by Michigan's
newest professional theater company,
HappenStance Productions. The first show,
Beehive: The '60s Musical Sensation,
a musical revue tracing the coming of
age of women's music through dozens of
popular hits of the girl groups and solo
singers of the 1960s — including Carole
King, Lesley Gore and Mama Cass
Elliot
runs 8 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays,
Sept. 8-Oct. 9. Ticket and dinner-package
information: (248) 348-4448;
andiamonovitheatre.com .
The Abreact Performance Space opens
its season with one-act plays by David
—
Mamet (Bobby Gould
in Hell) and Shel
Silverstein (The Devil
and Billy Markham)
Sept. 9-Oct. 1. 1301 W.
Lafayette, #113, Detroit.
No admission charge/
donations welcome. For
performance days and
times, go to theabreact.com .
Tipping Point Theatre stages Charles
Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Yep:
A Penny Dreadful, a comedy with
gothic plot twists, 8 p.m. Thursday-
Friday, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m.
Sunday through Oct. 9. 361 E. Cady St.,
Northville. $28-$30. (248) 347-0003;
tippingpointtheatre.com .
Gail Zimmerman
Arts Editor
THE BIG SCREEN
The Shakespeare's Globe London
Cinema Series, a stage-to-cinema presen-
tation, concludes with Henry VIII, which
will be shown in select movie theaters
across the U.S. 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
15. For a complete list of theater locations,
prices and additional information, go to
fathomevents.corn.
LAUGH LINES
On Saturday, Sept. 17, from 6:30-7:30 p.m.,
the DMC Guild with co-sponsors the DMC
Children's Hospital of Michigan and the
Harper Bariatric Medicine Institute host
comedian Joan Rivers in a benefit for
Danialle Karmanos' Work It Out program,
aimed at reducing childhood obesity,
and the DMC Cardiovascular Institute
Research and Education Fund. The event, at
Andiamo Celebrity Showroom in Warren,
also includes cocktails (5 p.m.) and dinner
(5:30 p.m.). $135. dmcguild.
org.
(Rivers is scheduled to
follow the benefit with
a performance at the
showroom 8 p.m. the same
day; $25-$75;
andiamoshowroom.com .)
FAMILY FUN
PuppetART: Detroit Puppet Theater's 14th
season brings back fan-favorite Sleeping
Beauty 2 p.m. Saturdays in September.
Future shows include The Firebird in
October, Kolobok in November and the
premiere production of The Snow Queen
in December and January. 25 E. Grand
River, Detroit. $5 children/$10 adults.
Puppet-making workshops following each
performance are $8.
(313) 961-7777; puppetart.org .
THE ART SCENE
A professional
sculptor for more
than 30 years, Lois
Teicher shows her
work Sept. 9-Oct. 7
at the Birmingham
Bloomfield Art
Association as
Lois Teicher: Iron
part of the exhibit
Ox,
at the BBAC.
Three Views: Lois
Teicher, Rose
DeSloover, Sherry Moore. "My journey
has led me to search for universal themes:'
says Teicher, whose large-scale public and
private sculpture commissions can be
seen around town. She also creates smaller
pieces. "My studio work is generally
welded metal that I fabricate she says.
Opening reception: 6-8 p.m. Friday, Sept.
9. 1516 S. Cranbrook Road, Birmingham.
(248) 644-0866; bbartcenter.org.
From Sept. 10-Oct. 30, Whitdel Arts, a
division of the Contemporary Art Institute
of Detroit, presents the 2011 Actual Size
Biennial, an exhibition for which each
artist was invited to create one work
in any medium, 2-D or 3-D, with the
only stipulation being that at least two
dimensions are 4 1/4-inches x 51/2-inches.
More than 100 local and national visual
artists will show their works, including
Andrea Eis, Marcia Freedman, Michelle
Hegyi, Deborah Marlowe Kashdan,
Donald and Linda Mendelson, Robert
Schefman, Leslie Sobel and Ron Zakrin.
Opening reception: 6-10 p.m. Saturday,
Sept. 10. 1250 Hubbard Street (entrance
on Porter Street), Detroit. (313) 899-2243;
whitdelarts.com .
In Black and White, an all media
group art exhibit exploring the black-and-
white aesthetic, runs through Oct. 1 at
Art Effect Gallery, 1420 E. Fisher Freeway,
in Detroit's Eastern Market. Jazz and
champagne reception: 6-9 p.m. Saturday,
Sept. 10. (248) 227-2810.
The Flint Institute of Arts presents the
exhibit Quilting Traditions: The Art of
the Amish Sept. 10-Nov. 13. 1120 Kearsley,
Flint. (810) 234-1695; flintarts.org.
The following festivals feature art and
wares, food, entertainment, children's
activities and more. For details, visit their
websites:
Art & Apples, Sept. 9-11, Rochester
Park in downtown Rochester.
artandapples.com.
Plymouth Fall Festival, Sept. 9 11 in
downtown Plymouth. plymouthfallfestival.
corn.
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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
TV Premieres
1.1:1 The following is a list of new broad-
(1) cast network TV shows, debuting
through Sept. 21, with Jewish cast
member(s) in an important role.
Tuesday, Sept. 13: Ringer, debuting
9 p.m. on the CW, is a drama starring
Sarah Michelle Gellar, 34. She plays
a woman who, after witnessing a mur-
der, goes on the run and assumes the
life of her rich identical twin sister
– only to learn that
her late sister's life is
very complicated and
very dangerous.
Wednesday, Sept.
14: Up All Night, 8
p.m. on NBC, a com-
edy with Christina
Applegate as a suc-
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cessful businesswoman, Will Arnett
as her stay-at-home husband/baby
caregiver and Maya Rudolph, 39, as
Applegate's boss and best friend;
and Free Agents, 8:30 p.m. on NBC,
a workplace comedy
with Hank Azaria,
47, as Alex, a newly
divorced public rela-
tions executive. His
co-workers, includ-
ing "Dan" (stand-up
comic Mo Mandel,
30), try to get Alex to
Mandel
date again.
Monday, Sept. 19: 2 Broke Girls,
9:30 p.m. on CBS (thereafter at 8:30
p.m. Mondays), a comedy co-starring
Kat Dennings, 25, as one of a pair of
waitresses at a Brooklyn greasy spoon
who hope one day to open their own
eatery; and The Playboy Club, 10 p.m.
on NBC, set in 1963 and a largely fic-
tional take on the first Playboy Club
in Chicago. David Krumholtz, 33, co-
stars as Billy Rosen, the club's manag-
er. The new season of ABC's Dancing
with the Stars, at 8 p.m., includes
celebrity dancer actress/talk-show
host Ricki Lake, 42.
Tuesday, Sept. 20: New Girl, 9 p.m.
on FOX, is a sitcom starring Zoey
Deschanel as a nice girl who moves in
with three single guys after a roman-
tic breakup. One of them, Schmidt,
a Casanova type, is played by Max
Greenfield, 30.
Wednesday, Sept.
21: The X-Factor,
8 p.m. on FOX, is
the British transplant
competition in which
the judges scour the
country for vocal tal-
ent (solo and groups),
with
a $5 million
Greenfield
prize package for the winner. The
show reunites, as judges, American
Idol vets Paula Abdul, 49, and Simon
Cowell (who found out a few years
ago that his late father was Jewish).
Germ Warfare
Opening Friday, Sept. 9, is Steven
Soderbergh's Contagion, a thriller
about a quickly spreading global
virus and the international team of
doctors contracted by the Centers
for Disease Control to deal with the
outbreak. The all-star cast includes
Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon,
Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law,
Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet
as Dr. Erin Mears, a character loosely
based on Dr. Anne Schuchat, direc-
tor of immunization and respiratory
diseases for the CDC, whom Winslet
interviewed in preparation for her
role. I I