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CLASSICAL NOTES

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra opens
its 2012-13 season with violinist Joshua Bell
performing works by Leonard Bernstein.
DSO Music Director Leonard Slatkin will
lead the DSO in Bernstein's Divertimento
and Symphony No. 1 ("Jeremiah"), featuring
mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, among other
works. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, Sept. 28-29, and 3 p.m. Sunday,
Sept. 30, at Detroit's Orchestra Hall. Tickets:
$15 and up. (313) 576-5111; www.dso.org .

POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK

The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts an icon of
American folk music, Peter Yarrow, the
Jewish member of Peter, Paul & Mary who
wrote the anthem "Don't Let the Lights Go
Out" in support of the rights of Soviet Jewry
and the Chanukah song "Light One Candle,'
at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30. $35. (734)
761-1451; theark.org.
New York-raised indie darling singer-
songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, the daughter
of classical composer Carl Michaelson
(The Praise of Christmas), studied piano
for many years at the Jewish Community
Center of Staten Island's Dorothy Delson
Kuhn Music Institute. Her "moody" and
often "funny folk-pop confections" have
been all over the soundtracks of TV series
like Grey's Anatomy. Presented by the Ark,
the Ingrid Michaelson Acoustic Fall Tour,
with special guest Sugar and the Hi-Lows,
comes to Ann Arbor's Power Center at 7:30
p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30. $27-$42. (734) 761-
1451; theark.org .
A 2011 Kennedy Center Honoree,
Barbara Cook is a Broadway and cabaret
legend. She originated the roles of Marian
the Librarian in Meredith Willson's The
Music Man and Amalia in the Bock-
Harnick-Masteroff musical She Loves
Me, and in 2010's Sondheim on Sondheim
earned this praise from the New York Jewish
Week: "The show's most indispensable
presence is that of the 82-year-old Cook,
who has been one of Stephen Sondheim's

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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

New Flicks

The following movies are scheduled to
open on Friday, Sept. 28:
The 3-D animated film Hotel
wer2- 6 -
Transylvania is the first full-length
movie directed by Gennady Tartakosky,
42. He was born in the former Soviet
Union and immigrated
with his parents,
both professionals
disturbed by anti-
Semitism at home,
to Chicago when he
was 7.
The plot: Dracula
Tartakosky
(Adam Sandler, 46)

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LAUGH LINES

most dependable and
moving interpreters for
Standup comic and podcast
the last 25 years." Cook
host Marc Maron, whose
performs for Detroit
first one-man show (and
audiences at 7:30 p.m.
book of the same name),
Thursday, Oct. 4, at
Jerusalem Syndrome: My
Gail Zimnierman
the Berman Center for
Life as a Reluctant Messiah,
Arts Editor
the Performing Arts at
was a comedic take on his
the Jewish Community
journey of self-discovery,
Center in West Bloomfield. $56/$46 JCC
takes the stage at Ferndale's Magic Bag
members. (248) 661-1900; theberman.org .
for two shows on Saturday, Sept. 29.
Doors at 7 and 10 p.m. $25. (248) 544-
ON THE STAGE
3030; themagicbag.com .
Standup comedian Wendy Liebman
The Performance Network in Ann Arbor
takes the stage at 8 p.m. Thursday and
presents Tennessee Williams' The Glass
8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
Menagerie Sept. 27-Oct. 28; set in 1937 St.
Oct. 4-6, at the Comedy Castle in Royal
Louis, this "wistfully poetic memory play,'
Oak. Liebman, a graduate in psychology
regarded by many as Williams' best and
from Wellesley College, is married to
most personal work, hinges on a "gentleman
TV writer-producer Jeffrey Sherman,
caller" upon whose shoulders a family's
whose father and uncle wrote music for
dreams rest. Performance times: 7:30 p.m.
Disney movies including Mary Poppins.
Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, 3 and 8 p.m.
$20, Friday-Saturday (call for Thursday's
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. $22-$41.
pricing). (248) 542-9900; comedycastle.
(734) 663-0681; performancenetwork.org .
corn.
Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester
stages the Michigan premiere of The
THE BIG SCREEN
Haunting of Hill House, based on the
1959 horror novel by Shirley Jackson
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival's
("The Lottery") Oct. 3-28. Jackson was
Special Jury Prize, 201 l's Elena, directed
married to the Jewish literary critic
by Audrey Zvyagintsev and in Russian
Stanley Edgar Hyman. $25-$40. (248)
with English subtitles, features a modern
377-3300; mbtheatre.com .
twist on the classic noir thriller as a
A campy stage version of Sam Raimi's
seemingly dutiful Moscow housewife,
classic horror film, Evil Dead: The
married to a very wealthy man, sees her
Musical returns to the City Theatre inside
large inheritance threatened. Philip Glass
Hockeytown Cafe in Detroit at 8 p.m.
composed the film's score. Screen times: 7
Thursdays-Saturdays, Oct. 4-27. $26. (800) p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28-29, and
745-3000; olympiaentertainment.com .
2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30. $6.50-$7.50. (313)
The Purple Rose Theatre Company in
833-4005; tickets.dia.org .
Chelsea presents Superior Donuts, a 2008
play by Tracy Letts (the Pulitzer Prize-
THE ART SCENE
winning August: Osage County) about
an aging '60s radical who owns a run-
The Detroit Institute of Arts auxiliary
down Chicago donut shop, its customers
Friends of Modern and Contemporary
and the assistant manager who wants
Art hosts Beverly Fishman, head of
changes made, through Dec. 15. $27-$42.
painting at the Cranbrook Museum of
Show times and tickets: (734) 433-7673;
Art, discussing Pill Spill, her installation
purplerosetheatre.org.
juxtaposing 86 hand-blown glass capsules

owns a lavish hotel where monsters
can live it up without humans bother-
ing them. One weekend, Dracula invites
some of the world's most famous mon-
sters to celebrate the 118th birthday of
Mavis, Dracula's daughter. Then an ordi-
nary guy (Andy Samberg, 34) stumbles
upon the hotel and takes a shine to
Mavis. Fran Drescher, 54, voices
Frankenstein's bride, with Jon Lovitz,
55, as the voice of the Hunchback of
Notre Dame, now working as a gourmet
hotel chef.
Looper is a sci-fi thriller set in the
year 2042. The plot: Time travel is
possible but illegal and available only
to criminals. A mob gang gets rid of
people by sending them back to 2012
where young Joe (Joseph Gordon-

Levitt, 31), the gang's crack killer, elimi-
nates them. Then the mob decides to
"close the loop" by sending the 2042
Joe (Bruce Willis) to 2012, where the
young Joe will kill his future self.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

(see an interview with the fiimmaker
on page 63) follows the maturation of
an adolescent named Charlie (Logan
Lerman, 20). Paul Rudd, 43, plays his
teacher. Ezra Miller,
19, co-stars as Patrick,
Charlie's best friend.
Miller has been
steadily acting in
good indie films since
2009, but most have
barely been seen. He
really
landed on my
Miller

in varying sizes, colors, and patterns, 7-9
p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, in the Contemporary
Galleries at the DIA. Representing phar-
maceutical pills, Fishman's capsules are
configured to underscore a viewer's per-
sonal relationship to medications, remind-
ing them that medicine can be both a cure
and a poison. (313) 833-4020; dia.org .
The Janice Charach Gallery opens its
new exhibit, Ed Meese: Colour!, together
with Jewels of Many Colors, a nine-person
jewelry show, on Saturday, Sept. 29, at the
JCC in West Bloomfield. Meese uses pow-
dered pigments, oils, varnish and paint to
create chemical interactions that result in
extraordinary colors. Opening reception:
7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29; Meese will host
a guided tour of his new works at 2 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 14. Free and open to the pub-
lic. More info: (248) 432-5448; jccdet.org .

FAMILY FUN

In a new twist on fairytale fun, sister
producers Nicole Feld and Juliette Feld
present Disney on Ice's Rockin' Ever
After, in which favorite Disney characters
compete to be the next superstar in comi-
cal segments leading up to the tales of
show-stopping princesses Ariel, Rapunzel,
Belle and more, Oct. 3-7, at the Palace
of Auburn Hills. Show times: 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday-Thursday; 11 a.m. and 7:30
p.m. Friday; 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 and 7:30
p.m. Saturday; and 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday.
$18-$55. (800) 745-3000; ticketmaster.
corn.

WHATNOT

The American Sewing Expo, featuring
more than 100 booths of sewing-
related products, classes, workshops,
demonstrations, fashion shows and
more, runs 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday-Saturday
and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28-30,
at the Suburban Collection Showcase
in Novi. Registration and ticket info:
americansewingexpo.corn.

radar when he told the Israeli news-
paper Ha'aretz earlier this year: "My
father is Jewish, my mother is not,
but I consider myself entirely Jewish
even though according to Jewish law
I am not. I encourage everyone to
understand that the rules were writ-
ten before anyone could do DNA tests
... I know that I am a descendant of
Abraham through my father." And a
visit to Israel? "I definitely plan to do
this."
That's about as smart and deter-
mined a claim to one's Jewish identi-
ty that I have ever seen come out of
the mouth of any person with "only"
a Jewish father. But it is especially
impressive coming from a 19-year-
old.

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