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The Cranbrook Music Guild Chamber
Series presents the Talich String Quartet
8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at Christ Church
Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills. A meet-the-
artists afterglow follows the performance.
Featured on the program will be Erwin
Schuloff's String Quartet No. 1, which inte-
grates modernist vocabulary, neoclassical
elements, jazz and dance rhythms from
a variety of sources and cultures. Born in
Prague of Jewish German origin, Schuloff
was one of the brightest in a generation of
musicians whose successful careers were
prematurely terminated by the rise of Nazi
Germany. The Mozart Quartet in G Major
and Schubert's Rosamunde also will be
performed. $25/student discounts available.
Tickets also available at the door. (248) 645-
0097; cranbrookmusicguild.org .
POP/ ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK
Noted for being a pioneer in fusing flamen-
co with other Latin American music forms
such as the bolero, Afro-Caribbean jazz
and tango, singer Diego El Cigala "radi-
ates a magnetic mix of winking charm and
unpredictable vitriol reminiscent of a sing-
er from an entirely different milieu, Frank
Sinatra," says the New York Times. Here him
in a University Musical Society concert
8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Michigan
Theater in Ann Arbor. Tickets start at $18.
(734) 764-2538; ums.org .
The Kerrytown Concert House hosts
students from the University of Michigan's
Musical Theatre Department in Mostly
Sondheim! 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday
and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10-12. Directed by
Brent Wagner, chair of the department, the
program will celebrate Sondheim's songs
and lyrics as well as his favorite songs by
other writers. The concert also will feature
commentary from Sondheim's latest book,
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-
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Special to the Jewish News
Brett Ratner (Rush
Hour), 42, the direc-
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opening Friday, Nov.
4, must be thanking
his lucky stars that he
stuck with this action-
comedy film for six
Brett Ratner
long years as plans
to film it repeatedly fell through. Now,
the movie seems "ripped from the
headlines," with echoes of the Bernie
Madoff and other Wall Street scandals.
Ben Stiller, 45, stars as Jason
Kovacs, a building manager. A Wall
Street billionaire, Arthur Shaw (Alan
November 3 a 2011
1981) with Attendant
Comments, Principles,
Heresies, Grudges,
Whines and Anecdotes.
$30 rows 1-2, $20 rows
3-5, $15 general admis-
sion, $10 students. 415
N. Fourth Ave., Ann
Arbor. (734) 769-2999;
kerrytownconcerthouse.com .
poser Leonard Bernstein,
lyricist Stephen Sondheim,
book writer Arthur
Laurents and choreog-
rapher Jerome Robbins
—created West Side Story.
Gail Zimmerman
The recent Broadway revival
Arts Editor
comes to Wharton Center's
Cobb Great Hall in East
Lansing 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8
p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1
ON THE STAGE
and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8-13. Tickets
start at $30. (800) 942-7866;
Village Players mounts a production of
whartoncenter.com .
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, a tra-
Performance Network presents the
gi-comedy set in a mental hospital written 1978 Tony Award winner for Best Musical,
by Dale Wasserman based on the Pulitzer Ain't Misbehavin', a tribute to the tunes
Prize-winning novel by Ken Kesey, 8 p.m.
and humor of the Harlem musicians of
Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, the 1920s and '30s with music by Fats
Nov. 4-13. $17. 34660 Woodward. Ave.,
Waller and book by Murray Horwitz and
Birmingham. (248) 644-2075;
Richard Maltby Jr., 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8
birminghamvillageplayers.com .
p.m. Fridays, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2
The UDM Theatre Company presents
p.m. Sundays, Nov. 10-Jan. 1. 120 E. Huron
Anatomy of Gray, a play directed by
St., Ann Arbor. $27-$46. (734) 663-0681;
Arthur J. Beer, a frequent actor at Jewish
performancenetwork. org .
Ensemble Theatre. The work explores
themes of survival, both spiritual and
THE BIG SCREEN
physical, in the rural town of Gray, Ind.,
in the late 1800s. Show times are 8
Anglo-French actress Charlotte
p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Gainsbourg, whose late father was the
Sundays, Nov. 4-13, at the Marygrove
celebrated French Jewish singer actor-
Theatre, 8425 W. McNichols Road,
composer-director Serge Gainsbourg,
Detroit. $18/$9 students. (313) 993-3270;
stars in The Tree, a mystical drama of
theatre.udmercy.edu .
loss and rebirth in the Australian coun-
Returning to Detroit's Fox Theatre
tryside, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2
is Irving Berlin's White Christmas,
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4-6, at the Detroit Film
based on the film of the same name and
Theatre in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
featuring the Jewish tunesmith's clas-
Gainsbourg's longtime partner is French
sic hits, including "Blue Skies,""How
Israeli actor-director Yvan Attal, with
Deep Is the Ocean" and the title song,
whom she has three children. $6.50-$7.50.
purportedly the best-selling single of all
(313) 833-4005; tickets.dia.org .
time. Performance times are 7:30 p.m.
It's not only the stage version of West
Tuesday-Thursday, 2 and 8 p.m. Friday
Side Story that's available for fans in the
and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
coming week; they also can see the film
8-13. $25.50-$100. (313) 471-6611;
version once again on the big screen. The
olympiaentertainment. com .
West Side Story 50th Anniversary Event,
Four Jewish creative talents — com-
7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in selected
-
Alda), who lives in the penthouse of
the building, is under house arrest
for stealing $2 billion from inves-
tors, including wiping out the pen-
sion fund of the building's employees.
In a scheme to steal $20 million in
cash he learns Shaw has stashed in
the penthouse, Kovacs enlists his
brother-in-law (Casey Affleck), a Wall
Street investor whom Shaw has bank-
rupted (Matthew Broderick, 49) and a
small-time thief (Eddie Murphy). Judd
Hirsch, 76, has a supporting role.
Also opening Nov. 4 is A Very
Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, filmed
in Michigan and the third installment
in the series. (Check out the scenes
filmed at the Detroit Opera House and
the Somerset Collection.)
Former college students Harold
(John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn)
have grown apart in the six years
since we last saw them. The movie
opens with Kumar getting a package of
marijuana that he redirects to Harold's
house. A series of mishaps results in
the pot and Harold's father-in-law's
prize tree going up in
smoke. The duo then
spend Christmas Eve
searching all of New
York City for a
replacement tree.
Neil Patrick Harris
co-stars, with series
regulars David
Todd
Krumholtz, 33, and
Schulson-
Eddie Kaye Thomas,
Strauss
theaters nationwide, features a discussion
moderated by Turner Classic Movies host
Robert Osborne with Walter Mirisch of
the Mirisch Company, which produced
the classic; Oscar-winning actor George
Chakiris (Bernardo); and Natalie Woods'
voice double, Marni Nixon. A screening of
the film follows. For theaters and tickets,
go to fathomevents.com .
THE ART SCENE
From Nov. 5- Dec. 17, the David Klein
Gallery hosts the exhibition Liz Cohen/
Brittany Nelson/Lauren Semivan.
Cohen, a photographer and performance
artist, was appointed artist-in-residence
and head of the Photography Department
at Cranbrook in 2008. Opening reception:
5-7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. 163 Townsend,
Birmingham. (248) 433-3700;
dkgallery.com .
FAMILY FUN
PuppetART/Detroit Puppet Theater
presents Kolobok, a "Gingerbread Man"-
like Russian folktale for ages 4 and up
incorporating original music and lyrics,
2 p.m. Saturdays, Nov. 5-26, and 10 a.m.
Thursday, Nov. 17. Puppet-making work-
shops ($8) follow each performance. $10
adults/$5 children. (313) 961-7777;
puppetart.org.
The Ringling Bros. Barnum and
Baily Circus runs Nov. 9-13 at the Palace
of Auburn Hills. Arrive an hour before
show time for the All Access preshow to
meet performers and animals. $13-$82.
For show times, tickets and more info:
(800) 745-8000; palacenet.com . II
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31, reprising their roles as the "ston-
ers" Goldstein and Rosenberg.
The director is Todd Schulson-
Strauss, 31, who is making his feature
film debut. Soon after graduating from
college, he began directing acclaimed
music videos for top acts. In the last
six years, he has directed a slew of
short films and TV shows that have
starred big names like Stephen Colbert;
Lewis Black, 63; Jackie Mason, 75;
and Richard Belzer, 67.
As his website bio reads: "Ever since
his grandfather gave him a video cam-
era for his bar mitzvah (after years of
relentless pestering), Todd has been
a one-man movie-making machine –
directing, writing, shooting and editing
all of his own work." r 1