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ON THE STAGE 111a

FAMILY FUN
Scenes Gala, will take place
Monday,
Oct.
17,
at
the
In cooperation with the Detroit Symphony Former Detroiter
Sam
home of Doreen Hermelin
Disney On Ice presents Mickey &
Orchestra, the Wayne State University
Raimi's cult clas-
(the evening will honor Bill
Minnie's Magical Journey — skating
Department of Music presents Mondays
sic movie Evil Dead
and Madge Berman and
into the worlds of Disney's The Little
at the Max with Wayne State, a new
turns 30 this year.
volunteer
of the year Sue
Mermaid, The Lion King, Lilo & Stitch
concert series featuring premier WSU
Gail Zimmerman
Celebrating the film's
Curtis). The event includes
and Peter Pan — 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-
student ensembles at the Max M. Fisher
Arts Editor
world premiere, which
dinner
and
a
Fats
Waller
Thursday, 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Friday;
Music Center. The University Orchestra
took place in Detroit
Revue by the Alvin Waddles
11:30 a.m., 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday;
will kick off the series 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in
in 1981, is the return of Evil Dead: The
Trio. $136 per person. For information,
and 1 and 5 p.m.
the Max's Music Box. For more info and a
Musical, a humorous — and bloody
call (248) 788-2900.
Sunday, Oct. 12-
complete calendar, go to music.wayne.edu .
—homage that will play at Detroit's City
Oct.
16, at the
$15 adults/$10 students/$5 WSU students.
Theatre for a four-week run Oct. 7-29
Palace
of Auburn
(313) 576-5111; dso.org .
(luckily, you don't have to deal with the
THE BIG SCREEN
Hills. $18-$55.
crowds the opening weekend, which
(800) 745-3000;
POP / ROCK /JAZZ / FOLK falls
on Yom Kippur). Show times are 8
With the hoped-for revitalization of the
ticketmaster.corn.
p.m. Thursday-Saturday. City Theatre is
Motor City so much in the news these
Five-time Tony
Some 80 years ago, brothers Max and
located inside Hockeytown Cafe, 2301
days, filmmaker Gary Hustwit's 2011
Award-winner
Dave Fleischer created the iconic cartoon
Woodward Ave. $25, general admission;
documentary film, Detroit Revealed:
Jon B. Platt
character Betty Boop — a resident of
Splatter Zone seats, where the blood
Urbanized, about the design of cities
(Wicked, Book of
the Depression-era Lower East Side whose
really flows, are available on a first-come- such as Detroit, could not be more on
Mormon) pres-
Jewish parents were introduced in 1931's
first-serve basis. Info: (313) 471-6611;
target. The film reveals the strategies
ents Fan Yang's
Minnie the Moocher. A sexy, confident,
whowantscaketheatre.com . Tickets:
behind urban design discussed by the
Gazillion Bubble Fan Yang's Gazillion
financially independent young woman,
(800) 745-3000; ticketmaster.com .
world's foremost architects, planners,
Show, an all-ages Bubble Show
Betty not only changed the world of film
Sponsored by the Michigan Equity
policymakers, builders and thinkers. The
show created
but also the genre of music — jazz — that
Theatre Alliance (META), the META
Detroit Film Theatre at the DIA presents
by and starring
was the backdrop for her screen antics. At
Golden Ticket is a special pass that
the film 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11; the film-
world-renowned bubble artist Fan
8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
is good for a pair of season tickets for
maker will introduce the film and lead a
Yang (the holder of 17 Guinness World
15-16, the Charles H. Wright Museum of
the coming season to every play put on
discussion afterward. $6.50-$7.50. 313-
Records), who transforms bubbles into
African American history hosts Rhapsody
by all of the metro area's seven profes-
833-4005; tickets.dia.org .
an
interactive theater experience, Oct.
in Boop, a multime-
sional Equity theaters: Detroit Repertory
A film by Ann Arbor artists Gabrielle
14 16 at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit.
dia big band presen-
Theatre (Detroit), Jewish Ensemble
(Bernstein) Pescador and her husband,
Show times are 7 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m.
tation celebrating the
Theatre (West Bloomfield), Meadow
Juan Javier Pescador, Just Because I Am
and
2 and 5 p.m. Saturday; and 11 a.m.
film and music of the
Brook Theatre (Rochester), Performance
takes the viewer through the journey of
and
2
p.m. Sunday. $25-$49. (800) 982-
Betty Boop era with
Network Theater (Ann Arbor),
an LGBT youth group, led by an enthu-
2787;
broadwayindetroit.com .
jazz vocalist Kathy
Plowshares Theatre Company (Detroit),
siastic gay mentor, who together give a
Kosins and the Paul
Tipping Point Theatre (Northville) and
response to homophobia by creating a
THE ART SCENE
Keller Orchestra. 315
Williamston Theatre (Williamston). In
performance on love, respect and toler-
E. Warren, Detroit.
one year, the winners will be able to use
ance. While experiencing the empowering The 26th annual Our Town, an all-media
$30. (313) 494-5800;
the
ticket
to
see
40
shows
—
a
$2,800
effects
of self-affirmation, these young-
Kathy Kosins
art show and sale at the Community
thewright.org.
value. For a chance to win the META
sters also face aggravating homophobic
House
in Birmingham, provides a forum
In collaboration
Golden Ticket, enter the META Golden
reactions in their traditionally conserva-
for
more
than 200 Michigan artists to
with the Wright Museum, the Detroit Film
Ticket contest, which runs through Nov.
tive USA-Canada border city: Windsor
show,
demonstrate
and sell their work,
Theatre at the DIA presents The Fleisher
25 and is free and open to the public.
(Gabrielle Pescador's hometown). A
which
ranges
from
traditional to contem-
Studios: A Musical Legacy, an 80-minute
Tickets are transferable to friends and
screening takes place 7 p.m. Friday, Oct.
porary.
10
a.m.-6
p.m.
Thursday-Saturday,
compilation of vintage musical cartoons
family. For rules and to enter, go to
14, at Affirmations, 290 W. Nine Mile
Oct.
13-15.
380
S.
Bates
St. (248) 644-5832;
(the boop-oop-a-doop girl will be fea-
METAtheatres.org/goldenticket.
Road, Ferndale, following a gathering of
communityhouse.com
.
tured), 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. $6.50-$7.50
Speaking of JET (which is funded only
the GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) Coalition
(free for Rhapsody in Boop ticket holders).
40 percent by ticket sales), the theater's
of Southeast Michigan. (248) 398-7105;
Email items to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.
313-833-4005; tickets.dia.org .
major fundraising event, the Behind the
goaffirmations.org .
corn at least three weeks before the event.

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TV Notes

The new NBC comedy Whitney, airing
9:30 p.m. Thursdays, looks at mod-
awl ern love and stars comedian Whitney
(1) Cummings and Chris D'Elia as a hap-
(*) pity unmarried couple of three years.
Whitney often consults her funny
girlfriends, including Lily, played by
actress Zoe Lister-Jones, 29. Lister-
Jones, who was raised in her mother's
Jewish faith, is a multitalented artist
who sings, writes plays and acts. In
2007, she played an Orthodox Jewish

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woman who becomes friends with
a Muslim woman in the indie film

Arranged.
The new FOX sci-fi action series
Terra Nova, airing 8 p.m. Mondays,
takes place in 2149. Earth is dying,
and a group of people
goes through a time
portal to distant
prehistoric times to
establish a colony and
help save the human
race from extinction.
Stephen Lang, 59,

Zoe

Lister-Jones

plays the paramilitary
leader of the colony;

he is the son of Eugene Lang, 92,
who made his fortune as a high-tech
innovator and has given away at least
$150 million to various good causes,
mostly education-related.
Airing Mondays at 9 p.m. is the new
CW part drama/part romantic comedy
Hart of Dixie. Created
by Josh Schwartz
(The O.C.), 35, it stars
Rachel Bilson, 30, as
Dr. Zoe Hart, a new
doctor from New York
who gets her first
job practicing medi-
Rachel Bilson
cine in Bluebell, Ala.

Bilson, whose father is Jewish, also
co-starred in The O.C.

Etcetera

Igor Olshansky, who was cut by the
Dallas Cowboys just before the sea-
son began, has signed a one-year deal
with Miami.
Israeli actress
Ayelet Zurer has
just been cast as
Superman's mother,
Lara, in an upcoming
feature film on the
"Man of Steel." Li

Ayelet Durer