>> editor's picks ea. 30 • • &About CLASSICAL Ilia NOTES Gutman of Huntington Woods. Loren Bass of Ann Arbor takes the role of psychiatrist Dr. Vocal selections from Krapinsky. Playwright beloved operas will Londos D'Arrigo is a be performed at 7 Gail Zimmerman longtime writer for Joan p.m. Friday, March Arts Editor Rivers. $24-$39. Show 23, at OperaFest!, times and tickets: (248) at the Seligman 377-3300; www.mbtheatre.com . Auditorium on the campus of Detroit The What's That Smell Theatre Country Day School in Beverly Hills. Troupe presents Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer The Rackham Symphony Choir, the Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan, March 16-31 at the intimate Box mezzo-soprano Irina Mishura and Theatre in Mt. Clemens. $16. Show students of the Detroit Country Day times and tickets: (586) 954-2311; School Choir will participate. $30 in www.theboxtheater.com . advance/$35 at the door/$10 for stu- Direct from Las Vegas, Sandy dents. (313) 404-0222; Hackett's Rat Pack Show, a revue www.rackhamchoitorg. recreating the relationship between The Ann Arbor Symphony show-business buddies Frank Sinatra, Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Arie Lipsky, performs at 8 p.m. Dean Martin, swings into Macomb Saturday, March 17, at the Michigan Center for the Performing Arts at 4 Theater in Ann Arbor, featuring and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 17. The Michael Daugherty's "Oh Lois!" from show features their classic songs, his comic book-inspired Metropolis Symphony; Saint-Saens' Violin Concerto original, never-before-heard songs by Motown songwriter Ron Miller and No. 3 in B minor, performed by A2S0 recorded voiceovers made by Sandy Concertmaster Aaron Berofsky; and Hackett's father, the late comedian Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E Buddy Hackett. Sandy Hackett plays minor. $10-$55. (734) 994-4801; www. Bishop; Lisa Dawn Miller (daughter a2so.com . of Ron Miller and Hackett's wife) plays Hosted by University Musical "Frank's One Love:' $42-$52. (586) 286- Society, Michael Tilson Thomas 2222; wwwMacombCenter.com . and the San Francisco Symphony, as part of its centennial season, THE ART SCENE will present the second American Mavericks Festival, which will tour Birmingham's Lido Gallery presents to only two U.S. venues: Ann Arbor's Joyce Lieberman: UNstill Life Hill Auditorium and New York City's Paintings, in which the award-wining Carnegie Hall. The 2012 four-day festi- Venice, Calif., artist, originally from val, running Thursday-Sunday, March Michigan, shows her love of flowers 22-25 (the March 25 performance is in a vibrant series of large canvases. at Rackham Auditorium), celebrates Through April 15. 248 792-6246; www. "the creative and pioneering spirit everythingart com. and the composers who created a new Meet Me at the DIA, a new program American musical voice for the 20th for people with early stage dementia century and beyond." Jewish compos- ers include Aaron Copland (Orchestral and their caregivers at the Detroit Institute of Arts, begins on Saturday, Variations), Morton Feldman (Piano and Orchestra, performed by American March 17, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Gallery discussions about art will be led by pianist Emanuel Ax on March 24), DIA staff and volunteers with expertise Lukas Foss (Echoi) and Morton Subotnick (Jacob's Room; Monodrama, in this area. $20 per couple; sessions also will be offered on Saturdays, April a 2012 SFS commission). $10-$75 per 21 and May 19. Each session is limited performance. (734) 764-2538; www. to 20 people. To register, call (313) 833- ums.org. 4005 or go to bit.ly/meetmeatthedia. Applications for the Benard L. 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