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Leonard Slatkin conducts the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra in Schubert's two-
movement Unfinished Symphony and
Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3; and DJ/
composer Mason Bates joins the orchestra
for his electronic/orchestral fusion The
B Sides, with its last movement an homage
to Detroit, the birthplace of techno, 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 25-27, at Orchestra Hall. $15 and up.
(313) 576-5111; detroitsymphony.com
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POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK
The "voice of folk music in Michigan," folk
musician, radio host and fan favorite Matt
Watroba, out with a new album, Shine
Right Through the Dark, takes the stage
8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 25, at the Ark in Ann
Arbor. Previous Thanksgiving shows have
included some great, unannounced guests.
$15. (734) 761-1451; theark.org .
On the new Kanye West/Jay-Z CD col-
laboration Watch the Throne, one track,
"Who Gon Stop Me begins with West
rapping, "This is something like the
Holocaust / Millions of our people lost
/ Bow our heads and pray to the Lord','
and later throws in references to Jewish
sportscasters Mary Albert and Howard
Cosell. Check out Jay-Z and Kanye West
in person as their Watch the Throne Tour
comes to the Palace of Auburn Hills 7:30
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26. $49.50-$129.50.
(800) 745-3000; palacenet.com.
He played one fine Jew for more than
2,000 performances starring as Joseph in
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which
broke records at Detroit's Masonic Temple
Theatre back in the '90s. And now, Donny
Osmond is back in Detroit, this time with
his sister, Marie, in Donny and Marie:
Christmas In Detroit, a holiday produc-
tion running 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday,
8 p.m. Friday, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday and
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zi New Flicks
The following movies opened Nov. 23:
The Muppets features the famous
um= puppet characters created by Jim
Henson. A new puppet, called Walter,
is the "world's greatest Muppet fan,"
and while on vacation in Los Angeles,
Walter discovers that an evil oil-
man (Chris Cooper) plans to raze the
Muppet Theater and drill for the oil
just discovered below the theater.
Walter's friends Gary (Jason Segel,
31) and Mary (Amy Adams) help him
round up all the Muppets and stage
a telethon to raise the $10 million
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4 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
30-Dec. 4, at Detroit's
Fox Theatre. $30-$100.
(800) 745-3000; olym-
piaentertainment.com .
two men of different reli-
gious faiths: Rabbi Albert
Lewis, his boyhood rabbi
in New Jersey, and inner-
city Detroit Pastor Henry
Covington. In the film adap-
Gail Zimmerman
ON THE STAGE
tation, filmed in Michigan,
Arts Editor
Bradley Whitford portrays
Wayne State University's
Albom, Martin Landau
Studio Theatre presents Trouble in Mind,
plays Rabbi Lewis and Laurence Fishburne
Alice Childress' satiric comedy-drama
portrays Pastor Covington. Have a Little
(which won the 1956 Obie for best original Faith will be broadcast 9-11 p.m. Sunday,
Off-Broadway production) about the jour- Nov. 27, on ABC. Look
ney of a mixed-race cast as they embark
for the scene filmed
upon rehearsals for a new anti-lynching
in the sanctuary at
play, 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m.
Temple Israel in West
Saturday, Nov. 25-26, and 8 p.m. Friday-
Bloomfield, with
Sunday, Dec. 1-3, in the lower level of the
many local "extras" in
Hilberry Theatre, 4743 Cass, Detroit. $10-
attendance, in which
$12. (313) 577-2972; wsustudio.com .
Whitford as Albom
delivers a eulogy for
DANCE FEVER
Rabbi Lewis.
The Detroit Opera House continues an
annual holiday tradition with the Detroit
premiere of BalletMet Columbus' pro-
duction of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker,
featuring a cast of more than 100 profes-
sional and student dancers (50 of them
young, local dancers from local dance
studios), 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2:30 & 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25-27.
Tchaikovsky's score will be performed live
by the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra.
$29-$76, with special discounts for families.
(313) 237-7464; michiganopera.org .
The Macomb Ballet Company pres-
ents its version of The Nutcracker 10
a.m. and 7 p.m. Friday and 2 and 7 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 2-3, at Macomb Center for
the Performing Arts in Clinton Township.
$15 adults/$12 students and seniors. (586)
286-2222; macombcenter.com .
THE SMALL SCREEN
In Mitch Albom's best-selling book, Have
a Little Faith, he is greatly impacted by
needed to save the theater. More than
30 name actors have cameo roles,
including Alan Arkin, Billy Crystal,
Judd Hirsch, Mila Kunis, Sarah
Silverman and Ben Stiller.
The film was written by Segel and
Nicholas Stoller (Get Him to the
Greek), 35. Stoller's wife, novelist
Francesca Delbanco, is the daugh-
ter of University of
Michigan professors
Elena Greenhouse
Delbanco and
Nicholas Delbanco.
Stoller wed
Francesca in a
id
Jewish ceremony in
2005. Francesca's
Jason Segel
Sunday, Nov. 25-27, at the Detroit Institute
of Arts. Free with museum admission.
(313) 833-7900; dia.org .
Detroit Puppet Theater travels to
West Bloomfield's Berman Center for the
Performing Arts to present November's
show, Kolobok, a Russian folktale (much
like "The Gingerbread Man") about a little
butterball, baked by an elderly childless
couple, and his adventures, 1 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 27. $11 JCC members/$13 nonmem-
bers. (248) 661-1900; theberman.org .
Twin brothers San and
Laszlo Slomovits of Gemini
offer sing-alongs, folk songs
from around the world and
upbeat original tunes — all
performed on at least a dozen
instruments and accompanied
by their Good Mischief Band
— in a family concert 1 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 27, at the Ark in
Ann Arbor. $10. (734) 761-
THE ART
1451; theark.org.
Martin Landau as Rabbi
SCENE
Rails on Wheels, a display
Albert Lewis in Mi tch
and
sale of vintage and mod-
Albom's Have a Li ttle Faith
Shop & Champagne,
ern model trains and equip-
a fall preview fund-
ment, takes place 10 a.m.-4
raiser catered by local area restaurants
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 27, at Washtenaw Farm
and caterers that benefits educational
Council Grounds, 5055 Ann Arbor-Saline
and community programming at the
Road, Ann Arbor. Admission: $3/children
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, will
11 and under free with an adult. (734)
provide guests with a sneak peek of the
994-9872.
popular Holiday Shop, which will be open
from Dec. 2-17 at the BBAC. Shop and
WHATNOT
Champagne runs 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 30, at the BBAC; tickets are $60 in
Zingerman's co-founder Ari Weinzweig
advance and, if available, $70 at the door.
discusses and offers samples of some of
Patron level tickets are $125. Holiday chic
his favorite Zingerman products from
attire. Free valet and gift wrapping. 1516 S. around the world 6-8 p.m. Thursday,
Cranbrook Road, Birmingham. (248) 644-
Nov. 29, and Tuesday, Dec. 13, during
0866; bbartcenter.org .
Zingerman's Events on 4th, Fourth
Avenue just south of Kingsley, Ann Arbor.
FAMILY FUN
$45 advance/$50 (if available) at the door.
(734) 663-3354. II
The National Marionette Theater pres-
ents a holiday puppet performance of
Email Out & About items to Gail Zimmerman
Pinocchio 2 p.m. Friday, Saturday and
at gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com .
grandfather, Bernard Greenhouse
(1916-2011), one of the greatest cel-
lists of the 20th century, played at
their wedding.
Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese,
is based on a best-selling children's
novel by Brian Selznick, 45, a distant
cousin of the famous film producer
David Selznick. Asa Butterfield plays
the title character, an orphan boy who
lives in the walls of a Paris train sta-
tion in the 1930s. Hugo gets caught
up in a fantastic adventure. Sacha
Baron Cohen, 40, has a big part as
the station inspector.
Opening Friday, Nov 25: My Week
with Marilyn is a British film based
on a memoir by Colin Clark. In 1956,
Clark was a lowly film assistant on
the U.K.-based set of The Prince
and the Showgirl, a comedy starring
Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence
Olivier. Monroe had just married
playwright Arthur Miller, and when
he left England a little into the film's
production, Marilyn got the blues.
Clark, who had tons of upper-class
family connections,
stepped in to show
her a good time
(like a private tour
of Windsor Castle).
Michelle Williams
stars as Monroe, with
Kenneth Branagh as
Olivier.
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Brian Selznick