arts & entertainment >> editor's picks &About 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- 141•11 $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 Laredo-Robinson 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 . Out & About on page 56 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 54 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.