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The Ann Arbor
Symphony
Orchestra, under
the baton of Music
Director Arie
Lipsky, presents

Mozart Birthday
Bash, a concert celebrating the compos-
er's 275th birthday, at 8 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 19, at the Michigan Theater in Ann
Arbor. The program includes Mozart's
Violin Concerto No. 3, with soloist
Yehonatan Berick. $10-$58/discounts
for seniors and students. (734) 994-
4801; a2so.com.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
performs a neighborhood concert at 7:30
p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Berman
Center for the Performing Arts in West
Bloomfield. Tito Munoz conducts a
program that includes Stravinsky's
Dumbarton Oaks, Haydn's Cello Concerto
No. 1, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto
No. 3 and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for
Strings. Additional DSO concerts at the
Berman are scheduled for Feb. 28, April
11 and May 16. Individual tickets start at
$10/$75 for the series. Info: theberman.
org; tickets: (313) 576-5111; dso.org .

ROCK/ POP/ JAZZ/ FOLK

The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts a Simon
Garfunkel Retrospective at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 19. AJ Swearingen's warm
baritone and Jonathan Beedle's soaring
tenor capture the essence of the Jewish
folk duo's sound in the early years in
Greenwich Village. $22.50. (734) 761-
1451; theark.org.
At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21 (MLK Jr.
Day), at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor,
University Musical Society and the U-M
MLK Day Symposium celebrate the
unique relationship of the city of Detroit
to the music it helped create and shape
— from jazz to Motown to techno and
hip-hop — with many of Detroit's cel-
ebrated artists in a program titled From

Cass Corridor to the World: A Tribute
to Detroit's Musical Golden Age. Tickets
start at $10. (734) 764-2538; ums.org.

ON THE STAGE

The 2013 Canton One-Acts Festival
showcases eight winners of a national
playwriting contest at 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18-20,
at the Village Theater at Cherry Hill in
Canton. Playwrights include Marcia
Rudin of Sanibel, Fla., whose 10-minute
play Carmen Garmin tells the story
of Jewish character Robert Bernstein,
whose GPS, named Carmen, seems to
know everything about his life and offers
advice to help him shape up and improve

his relationship with his son.
$12. (734) 394-5300; can-
tononeacts.com.
Written by Aaron
Thomas Timlin, the
Internet-based All in the
Family-inspired television
sitcom Lambert Street, the
story of a family and their
friends living on a typical
street on Detroit's east side, will first
be presented as a two-act play run-
ning 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Jan.
18-Feb 2, at the Planet Ant Theatre in
Hamtramck. Filming of the sitcom will
begin during the run of the play. One
character, Jeremiah Alter, is described
as "Dad to David (the sitcom's protago-
nist); Jewish American, professionally
employed as a college professor." Tickets
are $10; (313) 365-4948 or planetant.
corn. There also is a Kickstarter page to
raise funds for the project at http://kck.
st?VOcBy2.
Stagecrafters presents a musical
whodunit and sendup of Broadway
classics, Curtains: The Musical, with
music and lyrics by John Kander and
Fred Ebb and a book by Peter Stone,
Jan. 18-Feb.10 at the Baldwin Theatre
in Royal Oak. The cast includes Deb
Dworkin of Berkley and Jeff Weiner of
Troy. $18-$20. Show times and tickets:
(248) 541-6430; stagecrafters.org .
Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts presents Annabelle Gurwitch and
Jeff Kahn's comedy about love and mar-
riage, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up!,
at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19. $40-
$55. (586) 286-2222; macombcenter.com .

DETROIT
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA

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PRESENTED BY WRCJ 90.9 FM

Presented by

BACH'S
BRANDENBURG
CONCERTO NO.3

Tito Munoz, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks
Haydn Cello Concerto No.i
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings

"SISTER IS THOUGHT-
PROVOKING AND HEARTREND
ING, A STORY OF HOPE AND
HOPELESSNESS IN EQUAL
MEASURE, A COMMENTARY ON
GROWING UP AND LEARNING
YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD.'

-EMMA BERNSTEIN, lilt PlAYIIST

WEST BLOOMFIELD TWP.

LEA SEYDOUX

THUR., JAN. 24 AT 7:30 P.M.

Berman Center for
the Performing Arts

ON THE EUGENE & MARCIA APPLEBAUM
JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS
6600 W. MAPLE

BLOOMFIELD HILLS
SAT., JAN. 26 AT 8 P.M.

Kirk in the Hills
Presbyterian Church

1340 W. LONG LAKE ROAD

TICKETS JUST $25

(sio for children under 18 and students)

CALL 313.576.5111 OR VISIT DSO.ORG

Tom Jones: Tribute from Las Vegas,

starring Dave LaFlame, comes to the
Berman Center for the Performing Arts
at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19. $36 JCC
members; $46 nonmembers. (248) 661-
1900; threberman.org.
It used to bother Norm Foster,
Canada's most produced playwright, to
be compared to Neil Simon "because
I was trying to find my place. Now,
it's fine. Hell, he's the most successful
playwright alive" Foster's Looking, a
comedy about four middle-aged charac-
ters and their desperate search for true
love, comes to Northville's Tipping Point
Theatre Jan. 24-March 5. $29-$32/senior
discounts. Show times and tickets: (248)
347-0003; tippingpointtheatre.com .
Single tickets for the much-
anticipated The Book of Mormon,
running March 12-24 at Detroit's Fisher
Theatre, go on sale Friday, Jan. 18, at
10 a.m. Tickets start at $49 and will
be available at the Fisher Theatre box
office, all Ticketmaster locations, by
phone at (800) 982-2787, and online at
ticketmaster.com or broadwayindetroit.
corn. For more information, call (313)
872-1000 or go to broadwayindetroit.
corn.

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THURSDAYS AT 7:30 P.M.

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Performing Arts

ON THE EUGENE & MARCIA APPLEBAUM
JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS
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