>> editor's picks 4. 1 About CLASSICAL NOTES • j4 % .6 and helmed by Harold Jurkiewicz (director of JET's annual production of The Diary of Anne Frank), Players Guild of Dearborn mounts a production of 4irid Gail Zimmerman Stephen Sondheim's A Arts Editor Little Night Music April Detroit Symphony 26-May 19 at the Players Orchestra presents a Charles Ives Guild in Dearborn. $18/group discounts Immersion with free chamber music available. (313) 561-8587; players- performances (April 26 and May 5 guildofdearborn.org. in Metro Detroit and May 1 in Ann Ed Harris' book Fifty Shades Arbor), culminating with a special of Schwarz (Fifty Tales Media), a sendoff concert at Orchestra Hall on spoof of E. L. James' publishing May 7 (all seats: $25). For details, go to phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey, www.dso.com . follows a young Jewish New Yorker Under the direction of Music Director on a mission to find a true love and a and Conductor Arie Lipsky, the Ann true self (with the focus on the funny Arbor Symphony Orchestra presents rather than the flagellation) and will be its season finale, Gustav Mahler's four- published May 1. Meanwhile, SPANK! movement tour de force Symphony The Fifty Shades Parody, a new No. 6, at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at musical that brings "all the naughty the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. fun" of the best-selling book to life, Mahler (1860-1911), also a well-known returns to the City Theatre in Detroit conductor, was born a Jew but con- May 1-5. $34.50-$39.50. (800) 745- verted to Roman Catholicism in 1897 3000; olympiaentertainment.com . for a prized appointment to the Vienna Court Opera. He once wrote about his LAUGH LINES own conversion: "I do not hide the truth from you when I say that this action Twin brothers, University of Michigan which I took from an instinct of self- grads and standup cultural com- ics Randy and Jason Sklar perform preservation and which I was fully dis- at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and posed to take cost me a great deal" $10- $58/student, senior and group discounts Saturday, April 26-27, at Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase in Ann Arbor. $15 available. (734) 994-4801; a2so.com . advance/$17 at the door. (734) 996- ON THE STAGE 9080; aacomedy.com . •go I ''"1111- Al In preparation for its performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City on May 9-10, the Performance Network in Ann Arbor stages the Michigan premiere of The Mountaintop, hot from its Broadway run, April 25-June 2. The play is a fictional depiction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night as he works on his speech for the next day and is startled by the motel maid, whose purpose may not be what it seems, $22-$41. (734) 663-0681; performancenetwork.org. Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit presents Jean Genet's classic The Maids, translated by Bernard Frechtman and directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates, April 26-May 18 at the Abreact Performance Space in Detroit. $15-$18/ pay-what-you-can tickets available. (313) 408-7269; magentagiraffe.org. The Farmington Players present Legally Blonde the Musical, with cast members including Rebecca Biber of Huntington Woods, Tony Targan of West Bloomfield and Gary Weinstein of Farmington Hills, April 26-May 18 at the Farmington Players Barn in Farmington Hills. $16-$18. (248) 553- 2955; farmingtonplayers.org . With a set designed by Hillel Day School grad Jennifer Maiseloff #4 • e sti EN s t, ,,, V JET's online auction has been EXTENDED through May 21st! The auction features some of your favorite vendors, artists, fashions and vacation options. Check it out TODAY at www.JetTheatre.org How about... A BOARDWALK BUNDLE: Gift certificates totalling $360 from Stage Deli, Sundance Shoes, Stones Fine Jewelry, Closet NV, Rear Ends, Margeurite Boutique, Hersh's and Ruby's Balm. Starting bid is just $95!!! Need help registering for the secure auction? Call 248.788.2900 and we'll walk you through it. Your participation supports the longest running professional Jewish theater in the U.S. GREEKTOWN ARRIVES IN NOVII T•Cnitiyi s iih\\ IlArkirbil