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Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings is
an ensemble — drawn primarily from
the Detroit Symphony and Michigan
Opera Theatre orchestras — committed
to bringing to life the body of repertoire
that utilizes six-20 musicians. DCWS will
kick off its subscription season with a con-
cert titled On the Horizon, performed by
brass and woodwind musicians, at 4 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 4, at the Community House
in Birmingham. The DCWS annual gala
follows the performance. $25 adults/$22
seniors/$10 students. (248) 559-2095;
detroitchamberwinds.org .

POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK

While you're getting ready for the Nov. 13
Bob Dylan concert at Detroit's Fox Theatre,
make it a family affair. On Saturday, Nov.
3, Bob's son Jakob Dylan and his band
the Wallflowers perform at Royal Oak
Music Theatre (with special guests Trapper
Schoepp & the Shades ). The Wallflowers
are out with a new CD, Glad All Over. Doors
at 8 p.m.; all ages welcome. General admis-
sion floor tickets: $25/$28 day of show;
reserved mezzanine: $55. (248) 399-2980;
royaloakmusictheatre.com .
Singer-songwriter Dick Siegel, whose
compositions range from jump blues and
Buddy Holly-style pop to folk balladry
and new folk lyricism, has been named
to WDET's list of the most important
and influential artists in the history of
Detroit, alongside legends such as John
Lee Hooker, Stevie Wonder and Aretha
Franklin. Hear Dick Siegel and the
Brandos at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at the
Ark in Ann Arbor. $18. (734) 761-1451;
theark.org.
Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor
presents a cabaret program, Songs of
Sheldon Harnick, with students from the

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The Divine Miss M

On Oct.15, while appearing at a char-
ity awards show, Glee creator Ryan
Murphy told the crowd he asked Bette
Midler, 66, to be on the hit Fox show
and then exclaimed, "I hope she says
yes!" Not long after, Midler tweeted
her agreement to
appear on Glee.
In the September/
October issue of
AARP magazine,
Midler offers nug-
gets of wisdom that
age has brought her.
Here's the most light-
Midler

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November 1 • 2012

University of Michigan
Village Players mounts a
Musical Theatre
production of the Andrew
Department under
Lloyd Webber musical
the direction of Brent
Sunset Boulevard, based on
Wagner, at 8 p.m.
the 1950 Billy Wilder film
Gail Zimmerman
Thursday and Friday
of the same name about a
Arts Editor
and 2 p.m. Saturday,
faded silent movie queen
Nov. 8-10. Harnick, 88,
who lives in a decaying man-
has had a long career working with many
sion on the once-fabled Sunset Boulevard,
different composers and is best known for
believing in her fame that no longer exists,
his collaborations with composer Jerry
Nov. 2-18 at the Village Players Playhouse,
Bock on musical favorites such as Fiddler
34660 Woodward, in Birmingham. $19.
on the Roof Fiorello! and She Loves Me.
Show times and tickets: (248) 644-2075;
$15-$30/$10 students. (734) 769-2999.
birminghamvillageplayers.com.
She studies Kabbalah and travels to
Israel to perform. Detroit's very own
THE BIG SCREEN
Material Girl, Madonna, performs at 8
p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, at Joe Louis Arena
The East Lansing Film Festival, featur-
in Detroit. $48-$173. (800) 745-3000;
ing a diverse lineup of independent and
olympiaentertainment.com .
foreign features, documentaries, shorts
and student films, runs Nov. 7-15 in East
ON THE STAGE
Lansing. For more information and a
schedule of screenings, go to eelf.com .
Detroit Repertory Theatre opens its season
with the world premiere of Michael E.
FAMILY FUN
Wolfson's A Paradise of Fools, a modern-
day version of a commedia dell'arte farce,
Explore architectural wonders and then
in which a couple of con artists convince
start your own construction project in
a dim-witted shoemaker about to receive
the nearby play pit as the Henry Ford in
his inheritance that he is pregnant. Show
Dearborn opens a new exhibit, LEGO®
times: 8:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays,
Architecture: Towering Ambition, run-
3 and 8:30 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 and
ning Nov. 7-Feb. 24. On display will be
7:30 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 1-Dec. 23. 13103
13 famous landmarks created entirely
Woodward Ave., Detroit. $17 advance/$20
with LEGO® bricks by LEGO® Certified
at the door. (313) 868-1347;
Professional Adam Reed Tucker; they
detroitreptheatre.com.
include Fallingwater, the John Hancock
Stagecrafters performs playwright
Center, Trump Tower, the Empire State
Jack Sharkey's three-act comedic farce
Building, the St. Louis Arch, Jin Mao
Meanwhile Back on the Couch, in which
Tower and one of the World Trade Center
a psychiatrist struggles financially to keep
towers. When visitors are finished with
his posh office apartment and provide
their own masterpiece, it will be placed
for his fiancee's expensive tastes, Nov.
on a large-scale LEGO® city map that will
2-17 at the Baldwin Theatre in downtown
grow in size with every new builder's
Royal Oak. $16-$18/senior and student
addition. The exhibit was developed by
discounts. Show times and tickets: (248)
the Building Museum in Washington,
541-6430; stagecrafters. org .
D.C. On Nov. 3-4, Tucker will be on hand

hearted one – about "beauty":
"You should stop beating your hair
into submission even if you don't like
it. Everyone should exfoliate, every
day, even guys. More than two drinks
a day will ruin your skin. And if you
don't have a full-length mirror, you're
going to get fat. Period."

Mostly Golf

There's no easy explanation why there
are not more Jewish pro golfers. The
three most prominent recent pros are
Bruce Fleischer, 63; Amy Alcott, 56;
and Morgan Pressel, 24.
Fleischer, who won the 1968 U.S.
Amateur championship, had modest
success on the regular pro tour but
has won 18 Senior PGA tournaments,

including the 2001 Senior Open.
Alcott, now retired, is simply one of
the best female golfers of all time,
with 29 LPGA titles. Pressel has had
only mid-range pro success, winning
two tournaments since She joined the
LPGA tour in 2005.
A promising future pro is Steven
Fox, 21, who won the U.S. Amateur

championship last August. Raised

Fox

in Tennessee,
this University of
Tennessee student
barely made the
tournament, and his
victory was a huge
upset. He will get
invitations, now, to
the 2013 Masters

building a LEGO® version of Detroit's
Ford Field. Free with museum admission;
nonmember admission: seniors 62+, $15;
adults 13-61, $17; youth 5-12, $12.50; 4
and under free. For more information and
a schedule of other activities: (313) 982-
6001; thehenryford.org .
An all-new circus entertainment from

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey,
Fully Charged celebrates "performance
power" and runs Nov. 7-11 at the Palace
of Auburn Hills. Performers include
Tabayara, an animal trainer whose ability
to communicate with animals allows him
to ride rearing stallions and orchestrate
four-ton Asian elephants in a symphony
of dance, and the Fernandez Brothers,
who perform daring feats of athleticism
on the Twin Turbines of Steel. The action
at Fully Charged begins an hour before
show time at the All Access Power-Up
Pre-show Party, free to all ticket holders;
get to know the performers, meet some
animals in person and work to become
"CircusFit" before the show starts. $13-
$82. Info: www.ringling.com . Tickets:
(800) 745-3000; ticketmaster.com.

WHATNOT

The Southfield Pavilion Antiques
Exposition runs 2-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6
p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 2-4, at the Southfield Municipal
Complex, Evergreen Road at Civic Center
Drive. $8 pass is good for three days. (586)
465-9441; antiquesexposition.com .
Members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic
Team, including 2012 Team Gold Medalist
and Floor Exercise Gold Medalist My
Raisman, comprise the all-star cast
of the Kellogg's® Tour of Gymnastics
Champions, coming to the Palace of
Auburn Hills at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov.
3. $25-$75. (800) 745-3000; palacenet.
com. ❑

and U.S. Open. Fox's Jewish father,
Alan, played pro basketball in Israel.
His non-Jewish mother, Maureen, was
a college basketball star. Steven was
raised secular.
The Detroit Tigers were swept by
the San Francisco Giants in the 2012
World Series. Nevertheless, it was a
great season. Perhaps Tiger fans can
take some small comfort in the fact
the Giants' general
manager, Larry Baer,

55, and his wife
are practicing Jews
involved in a big
range of Jewish com-
munity and charitable
organizations.

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Baer