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CLASSICAL NOTES
Anna Polonsky
Violin prodigy Benjamin Beilman, 21,
accompanied by young Jewish pianist
Anna Polonsky, makes his Detroit debut
and opens the 85th concert season of Pro
Musica Detroit 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16,
at the Max M. Fisher Music Center. Artists'
reception following concert. $45/$10 stu-
dents. (313) 576-5111; (313) 882-7775
(students).
The Berman Center for the Performing
Arts opens its inaugural season 8 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 17, with a performance
by the Michigan Opera Theatre, which
will present a preview of its 2011/2012
season. $35. (248) 661-1900; theberman.
org.
Maestro Arie Lipsky opens the Ann
Arbor Symphony Orchestra's new
season 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, at the
Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor with
works by Bolcom, Schumann (with guest
cellist Julie Albers) and Shostakovich. $10-
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$55/discounts seniors
bawdy musical, with music
and students. (734)
and lyrics by Robert Lopez
994-4801; a2so.com.
(House of Mormon) and
The Chamber Music
Jeff Marx, about a group
Society of Detroit
of young friends search-
Gail Zirrimerman
hosts the Kalichstein-
ing for jobs, dates and the
Arts Editor
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meaning of life, 8 p.m.
Trio, joined by violist
Thursday-Saturday and
Michael Tree and bassist Harold Robinson, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15-18, at the Lydia
performing works by Beethoven, Zwilich
Mendelssohn Theatre. Characters are por-
and Schubert, 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17,
trayed by actors and by puppets (operated
at the Seligman Performing Arts Center,
by onstage actors). 911 N. University, Ann
22305 W. 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills. $43-
Arbor. $12-$22. (734) 971-2228; a2ct.org.
$75 adults/$25 students. (248) 855-6070;
Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company
comehearcmsd.org .
presents Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm,
The University Musical Society's
a rarely staged play that takes aim at
2011/2012 Chamber Arts Series opens
how political motivations can destroy
with an all-Mozart concert by the
relationships and lives, 8 p.m. Friday and
Emerson String Quartet, playing the
Saturday, Sept. 16-Oct. 9, with a 3 p.m.
composer's late "King of Prussia" quartets, matinee on Sunday, Oct. 2. "The political
4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at Ann Arbor's
climate in 1880s Norway was not unlike
Rackham Auditorium. Violinists Eugene
that which is currently prevalent in the
Drucker and Philip Setzer alternate in
United States," says Director Frannie
the quartet's first-chair position. 915 E.
Shepherd-Bates. "Ibsen wrote this play as
Washington St., Ann Arbor. $24-$52.
a result of what he witnessed there: After a
(734) 764-2538; ums.org.
liberal government replaced one that was
conservative, extreme politics tore friends
ON THE STAGE
and families apart. Ibsen's views on these
events are beautifully painted in this dark
Spotlight Players mounts a production of
and intriguing play that is full of mystery,
Meredith Willson's The Music Man 8 p.m. symbolism and complex psychology."
Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m.
1515 Broadway, Detroit. $15-$18, with
Sunday, Sept. 16-25. It's "a classic show
pay-what-you-can tickets available at all
that is fun for everyone: anyone who has
performances. (313) 408-7269;
played an instrument, those who enjoy
magentagiraffe.org .
a good love story and anyone who gets a
Follies, Stephen Sondheim's classic
kick out of quaint and funny characters
musical about a 1971 reunion of per-
whose intentions are good but some-
formers of the great follies shows of the
what misguided:' says Musical Director
past in which musical theater is used as
Rebecca Biber. At the Village Theater
a metaphor for life, opens Village Players'
at Cherry Hill, 50400 Cherry Hill Road,
89th season Sept. 16-Oct. 22 at the Village
Canton. $15-$18. (734) 394-5300;
Players Playhouse, 34660 Woodward,
spotlightplayers.com .
Birmingham. Call for show times. $19.
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre stages Avenue
(248) 644-2075;
Q, the Sesame Street-inspired, sometimes
birminghamvillageplayers.com .
Stagecrafters opens its 2011/2012 sea-
son with a nostalgic look back to the early
1900s with the musical production Meet
Me in St. Louis, based on the classic MGM
movie musical starring Judy Garland.
It runs Sept. 16-Oct. 9 at the Baldwin
Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. Call
for show times. $18-$20. (248) 541-6430;
stagecrafters.org.
LAUGH LINES
The Sklar Brothers
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts the Second
City Laugh Out Loud Tour, the comedy
world's next generation in an evening of
sketches and improvisation, 8 p.m. Friday
and Saturday, Sept. 16-17. $25. 316 S. Main
St. (734) 761-1451; theark.org .
Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase presents
the Sklar Brothers, twin siblings and
U-M grads Randy and Jason, probably
best known as the stars of ESPN Classic's
Cheap Seats, 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday
and Saturday, Sept. 16-17. 314 E. Liberty
(below Seva restaurant). $15 advance
reserved seating/$17 general admission at
the door. (734) 996-9080; aacomedy.com .
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Jews
Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
Emmys Roundup
co
The Emmy Awards, for excellence in
primetime TV, will be telecast live 8
p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, on FOX.
The Jewish nominees in the acting
IL) categories include Julianna Margulies
(The Good Wife),
best lead actress in
a TV drama; Josh
Charles (The Good
Wife), best support-
ing actor in a TV
drama; Evan Rachel
Wood (Mildred
Pierce)
and Mare
Margulies
es
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September 15 2011
Winningham (Mildred Pierce), vying
for best supporting actress in a mini-
series/movie; Randee Heller (Mad
Men), best guest performance, drama;
and Elizabeth Banks (30 Rock) and
Gwyneth Paltrow (Glee), both up for
best guest actress, comedy.
Nominated for best performance
in a variety, musical or comedy spe-
cial are Bette Midler
(The Showgirl Must
Go On), Carrie Fisher
( Wishful Drinking)
Charles
and Paul Reubens
(Pee-Wee Herman on
Broadway).
There are too many
nominated Jewish
writers, directors, musicians and
producers to name them all here.
Some are multiple past winners, like
Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) and
Matthew Weiner (Mad Men).
New Flicks
Opening Friday, Sept. 16, are Drive
and Straw Dogs.
Drive, an audience
favorite at the
Cannes Film Festival,
stars Ryan Gosling as
Driver, a Hollywood
stuntman who
makes movies and
moonlights as a
get-away driver for
Lurie
criminals. Driver becomes smitten
with Irene (Carey Mulligan), his pretty
neighbor, and helps pull off a heist to
get an ex-con out of her life. The heist
goes wrong, and two members of a
criminal syndicate (Albert Brooks and
Ron Perlman) come after Irene and
her young child. Driver uses all his
skills to protect them.
Straw Dogs is a remake of the
1971 film of the same name that
starred Dustin Hoffman as an
academic trying to fit into his wife's
English village. Rod Lurie directs
the remake with James Marsden
as a Hollywood screenwriter trying
to fit into his wife's Southern
hometown.