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CLASSICAL NOTES
University of Michigan Opera Theatre
presents Verdi's Falstaff (critic Harold
Bloom's all-time favorite Shakespearean
character), blending bawdy humor with
lyric beauty, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 10-13, at the Power Center in Ann
Arbor. $20-$26/$10 students. (734) 764-
2538; tickets.music.umich.edu .
Michigan Opera Theatre presents
Mozart's romantic comedy The Marriage
of Figaro, filled with mistaken identity,
cross-dressing and infidelity, at the Detroit
Opera House 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12;
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16; 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 18; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19;
and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20. $29-$121.
There will be a free opera talk beginning
one hour prior to each performance. (313)
237-7464;
michiganopera.org.
Maestro Arie Lipsky and the Ann
Arbor Symphony Orchestra present a
special concert opera featuring the music
of Verdi's Rigoletto, with a narrator guid-
ing the audience through the plot and
vocalists including Lauren Skuce, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Michigan Theater
in Ann Arbor. Kicking off the evening will
be Debussy's three-part orchestral epic La
Mer. $10-$55. (734) 994-4801; a2so.com.
Chamber Music Society of Detroit
hosts violinist Sergey Khachatryan, mak-
ing his Michigan debut, 8 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 12, at the Seligman Performing Arts
Center. He'll perform sonatas by Beethoven,
Bach and Shostakovich, accompanied by
his sister, pianist Lusine Khachatryan.
22305 W. 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills. $25-
$75. (248) 855-6070;
comehearcmsd.org .
POP / ROCK /
JAZZ / FOLK
About
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Crucible, a timeless story
set in 1692 in a Salem,
Mass., community para-
lyzed by terror, religious
extremism and greed, 8 p.m.
A
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2
Ga Zimmerman
p.m. Sundays, Nov. 10-20, at
the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S.
Lafayette, Royal Oak. $18-
$20. (248) 541-6430; stagecrafters.org .
Ray Manzarek and
Robby Krieger of clas-
sic rock band the Doors
perform in concert
Friday, Nov. 11, at the
Fillmore Detroit. When
they performed earlier this summer in
Israel, Krieger told the crowd that he was
"the Jewish one in the group" and corn-
mented that he had family members in the
audience. All ages welcome. Doors at 7 p.m.
2115 Woodward, next to the Fox. Tickets
start at $10. livenationcom.
Named to WDET's list of the most
important and influential artists in the his-
tory of Detroit, Ann Arbor folk musician
Dick Siegel, songwriter of such classics as
"Angelo's (Eggs Over Easy);' "What Would
Brando Do?" and, more recently, "Fighting
for King George,' returns to the stage of the
Ark in Ann Arbor 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12.
$15. (734) 761-1451; theark.org .
ON THE STAGE
Legacy, an award-winning play written
by and directed by New York playwright
Shauna Kanter about the rescue of a
Jewish family from Nazi Germany in 1939,
will be presented at the Berman Center
for the Performing Arts on the campus
of the Jewish Community Center in West
Bloomfield Nov. 12-22. Evelyn Orbach of
West Bloomfield is the producer. $20/$18
seniors/$10 students. For more informa-
tion, visit voicetheatre.org or jccdet.org .
Show times and tickets: (248) 661-1900;
theberman.org .
Stagecrafters presents Arthur Miller's
Tony Award-winning masterpiece The
THE SMALL SCREEN
The four-decade friendship and working
relationship between Jewish filmmaker
Steven Spielberg and composer John
Williams is chronicled in TCM Presents
AFI's Master Class — The Art of
Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John
Williams, airing 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, on
cable station TCM. Both director Spielberg
and composer Williams won Oscars for
their work on Schindler's List. Check your
local cable listings.
THE ART SCENE
After a two-year, $22 million upgrade, the
entire collection of the Cranbrook Art
Museum at Cranbrook Academy of Art
in Bloomfield Hills will now be visible —
and accessible — to students, scholars
and visitors. Reopening the expanded and
renovated museum on Friday, Nov. 11 (11-
11-11) — in conjunction with an 11-day
program of events, lectures, films and
performances during which the museum
will be open 11 hours each day — is
the exhibition No Object Is an Island:
New Dialogues with the Cranbrook
Collection. Running through March 25,
2012, it pairs the work of 50 leading con-
temporary artists and designers with an
equal number of objects from Cranbrook's
outstanding permanent collection of
20th- and 21st-century art and design.
Participants include Cranbrook resident
artists Beverly Fishman and Liz Cohen.
Grand reopening hours are 9 p.m.–mid-
night Friday, Nov. 11; and 10 a.m.-9.p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 12-Monday, Nov. 21. A spe-
cial 11-day membership will be available
during this time that will provide unlim-
ited admission to the exhibition and all
programs for just $11. Regular museum
hours will be 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays,
10 a.m.-8.p.m. Thursdays-Fridays and
10 a.m.-5.p.m. Saturdays-Sundays. $8
adults/$6 seniors/$4 full-time students
with ID/ free children 12 and under. (248)
645-3320; cranbrookartmuseum.org .
The Detroit Artists Market Annual Art
for the Holidays is a show and shop offer-
ing a wide range of artwork, all hand-made
by local artists and at various price points.
The show opens 5-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11,
with a First Grabs Preview Party ($10
members/$20 nonmembers). The show is
open and free to the public during regular
gallery hours, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-
Saturdays, Nov. 12-Dec. 23, with additional
hours noon-5 p.m. Sundays, Dec. 4, 11 and
18. 4719 Woodward Ave., Detroit. (313) 832-
8540; detroitartistsmarket.org .
The College for Creative Studies'
Woodward Lecture Series presents art
critic Linda Yablonsky, the author of the
Scene & Heard column for ArtForum.com,
who will give a talk on Detroit art and
culture through a New York critic's eyes 7
p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, in the Wendell W.
Anderson Jr. Auditorium inside the Walter
B. Ford II Building (Walter & Josephine
Ford Campus) at CCS. Free and open to
the public. (313) 664-7800;
collegeforcreativestudies.edu . 1
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Special to the Jewish News
Tube Talk
Gabrielle Giffords, 41, the Arizona
4:11) congresswoman critically injured in a
Tucson shooting spree last January,
will appear with journalist Diane
Sawyer for her first sit-down inter-
view since the incident. The hour-long
special will air 10 p.m. Monday, Nov.
14, on ABC and will focus on Giffords'
remarkable recovery and ongoing
rehab treatment. Her husband, astro-
naut Mark Kelley,
47, also will be inter-
viewed.
Giffords, the child
of a Jewish father
and a non-Jewish
mother, became a
practicing Jew about
Gabby Giffords a decade ago. On
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November 10 2011
Nov.15, her memoir, Gabby: a Story of
Courage and Hope (Scribner), will go
on sale. It was co-written by Giffords,
Kelly and best-selling author and Wall
Street Journal colum-
nist Jeffrey Zaslow
(The Last Lecture)
of West Bloomfield.
Giffords was well
enough to record, in
her own voice, the
last chapter of the
book's audio version.
Jeffrey
Engineering Evil is a
Zaslow
new, two-hour special
on the History Channel that premieres
9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15.
Experts use photographs, films, doc-
uments and artifacts that illuminate
and explain the ongoing process of
the Holocaust, starting with the Nazis'
discriminatory laws within Germany
and ending with their systematic mass
murder of millions.
Rarely seen material from Yad
Vashem and the United States
Holocaust Museum will be featured.
Film Notes
Opening Friday, Nov.
11, are Jack and Jill
and Like Crazy.
The former is a
comedy starring
Adam Sandler, 45, in
a dual role. He plays
Adam Sandier
Jack Sadelstein,
a successful advertising executive
with a nice wife (Katie Holmes) and
kids, and also Jack's twin sister, Jill,
a "real pill" who is coming to spend
Thanksgiving with Jack and his family.
Like Crazy stars Anton Yelchin (the
young Chekov in the latest Star Trek
movie) as an American college student
who falls in love with a British college
student (Felicity Jones) visiting the
States. Their romance gets complicat-
ed when she overstays her visa and is
banned from returning to America.
Crazy may be
a breakout adult
romantic role for
Yelchin, 22, the son
of Russian Jewish
immigrant parents.
In a recent New
York magazine pro-
file,
Yelchin said he
Anton Yelchin
admires and loves his
parents more than anyone. Former
stars of the Leningrad Ice Ballet,
they found their careers somewhat
limited by Soviet anti-Semitism and
decided to give up their comfort-
able lives in Russia so Anton, who
was a baby when they arrived in Los
Angeles in 1989, would have unlim-
ited opportunities.