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The Theatre Company
transforms the Grounds
Coffeehaus in the student
Michigan Opera
union building on the UDM
Theatre launches
McNichols campus into A
its spring opera
Cabaret Showcase at 8 p.m.
season at the Detroit
Fridays and Saturdays and 2
Opera House with
p.m. Sundays, April 12-21,
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Gail Zimmerman
Beethoven's only
featuring Theatre Company
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opera, Fidelio,
alumni who will perform
a story about a
in musical numbers, short
noblewoman who disguises herself as
plays, monologues and improv comedy.
a guard to rescue her husband from
Look for JET performers including Dr.
death in a political prison, at 7:30 p.m.
Arthur J. Beer, Greg Trzaskoma, Mary
Saturday, April 13; Wednesday, April
Bremer and more. $10-$20. (313) 993-
17; Friday and Saturday, April 19-20;
3270; theatre@udmercy.edu.
and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 21. Verdi's
Stagecrafters mounts a production of
Aida rounds out the season May 11-19.
the farcical dark comedy Arsenic and
Tickets: $25-$125. (313) 237-7464;
Old Lace at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturdays
michiganopera.org .
and 2 p.m. Sundays, April 12-28, at the
Twenty-one-year-old Russian pianist
Baldwin Theatre in Royal Oak. Clif
Daniil Trifonov, a gold medalist at
Levin plays Mr. Gibbs, and Ed Berger
both the 2011 Arthur Rubenstein (Tel
takes the role of Lt. Rooney. Advance
Aviv) and Tchaikovsky (Moscow) inter-
tickets: $16-$18/$2 additional at the
national piano competitions, makes
door, if available. (248) 541-6430;
his Detroit-area debut, as part of the
stagecrafters.org .
Chamber Music Society of Detroit's
University of Michigan School of
PNC Piano Series, playing works by
Music, Theatre and Dance stages Crazy
Scriabin, Liszt and Chopin, at 8 p.m.
for You, a musical loosely based on
Saturday, April 13, at the Seligman
the 1930 film musical Girl Crazy, with
Performing Arts Center in Beverly
music and lyrics by George and Ira
Hills. In the summer of 2009, Trifinov,
Gershwin, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m.
who now studies composition at the
Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday,
April 18-21, at the Power Center in Ann
Cleveland Institute of Music, was a par-
ticipant in Israel's Tel Hai International
Arbor. For the stage musical, book writer
Piano Master Classes in Sde Boker. $30- Ken Ludwig adapted the classic tale
$60/half-price student tickets. (248)
of boy-gets-girl and blended it with 19
855-6070; chambermusicdetroit.org.
of the Gershwins' most beloved songs.
$20-$26/ $10 students. (734) 764-2538;
POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK tickets.music.umich.edu.

The Ark in Ann Arbor presents
California-based artist Karla Bonoff,
a singer-songwriter who helped shape
the introspective songwriting of many
of today's performers and who comes
to Michigan in support of a new live
album, at 8 p.m. Monday, April 15; $25.
(734) 761-1451; theark.org.
Entertainment Weekly dubbed
Marnie Stern "a New York guitar
goddess [who] ups her game on her
killer fourth album (The Chronicles of
Marnia), blending her lightning-fin-
gered fretwork with jubilant pop con-
structions:' Catch Stern live at 8 p.m.
Thursday, April 18, at the Magic Stick
in Detroit. $8 advance/$10 day of. (313)
833-9700; majesticdetroit.com .

ON THE STAGE

Bloomfield Community Theatre
brings Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein II's Oklahoma to the
Lahser Theatre in Bloomfield Hills at
7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2
p.m. Sundays, April 12-21. Udi Kapen
plays Curly, and Larry Miller is Jud.
Reserved seating: $15/adults; $12/
students and seniors. (248) 433-0885;
bloomfieldplayers.org .

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LAUGH LINES

Standup comic Dave Attell (Insomniac
with Dave Attell) shares his humor at
Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle in Royal
Oak at 8 p.m. Thursday and 8 and 10:30
p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 18-20. $20-
$25. (248) 542-9900; comedycastle.com .
Last Comic Standing finalist
Gary Gutman brings his humorous
observations to the Ann Arbor Comedy
Showcase at 8 p.m. Thursday and 8 and
10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April
18-20. $11-$15 advance reserved/$13-$17
general admission at the door. (734) 996-
9080; aacomedy.com.

ON THE TUBE

An award-winning film-festival
documentary Finding Kalman
tells the story of Holocaust survivor
Anna Jacobs, a teenager during the
Holocaust who inspires her children
and grandchildren with stories of her
brother Kalman, a mischievous boy who
tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto with
her. It airs on Detroit Public Television-
Channel 56 at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 14, to
commemorate the 70th anniversary of
the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. ❑

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