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Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House
presents young mezzo-soprano Laurie
Rubin (who has recorded a CD of art
songs by Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven
and beloved Yiddish songs on the Opera
Omnia label) at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1;
and the trio Shofar, whose repertoire
includes religious nigunim and dancelike
freylakhs as well as pieces derived from
Jewish liturgy, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.
5. Tickets for each concert: $15-$30/$5
students. (734) 769-2999; kerrytowncon-
certhouse.com
The Berman Center in West Bloomfield
hosts Four Pianos Extravaganza, in
which four pianists perform together in a
concert featuring classical and Broadway
music by Jewish composers, at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 2. $17-$25/purchase in
advance and save $5. (248) 661-1900;
theberman.org.
Music Director Leonard Slatkin
conducts the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 4
at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 7-8, at Orchestra Hall, featuring
American soprano Ilana Davidson,
whose repertoire spans the 12th-21st
centuries. Also on the program: the
American premiere of Ferran Cruixent's
Cyborg and Sibelius' Concerto for Violin
and Orchestra, with violinist Alexandra
Soumm. $13+. (313)576-5111; dso.org .
The Birmingham Temple's Vivace
Music Series presents a concert by
Yoonshin Song, concertmaster of
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
accompanied by pianist Zhihua Tang, at
8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, at the temple in
Farmington Hills. Song, a winner of the
Stradivarius Competition before becoming
concertmaster of the DSO in 2012, will
play Brahms' Violin Sonata No.1 and
Bartok's Rhapsody No.1. An afterglow will
follow the performance. $23/$20 seniors
and students. Info and tickets: Joyce
Cheresh, (248) 788-9338, or Ann Sipher,
(248) 661-1348; vivaceseries.org

Jews

Nate Bloom

Special to the Jewish News

At The Movies

The following flicks open on Friday,
Nov. 1:
Ender's Game is a big-budget sci-fi
flick based on the best-selling novel.
In the near future, an attack on Earth
by hostile aliens is barely fended off.
To prepare for the next attack, Col.
Graff (Harrison Ford, 71) looks for the
best young minds to be trained at
Battle School. One such recruit, Ender
Wiggin, quickly distinguishes himself,
and Graff sends him on to be trained.
Wiggin ultimately leads Earth's forces

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educational administration
that continues to this day,
his 54th year in the field.
Neil Berg's 100 Years
Performances are at 8 p.m.
of Broadway, a musical
Fridays and Saturdays and
revue of Broadway's
3 p.m. Sundays. $20/$15
most celebrated shows
students and seniors. (313)
Gail Zimmerman
featuring a cast of
967-0599; matrixtheatre.org.
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five Broadway stars
The Village Players present
accompanied by an
Company, with music and
all-star New York band, comes to Detroit's
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Nov. 1-17 at
Fox Theatre at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3.
Village Players Playhouse in Birmingham.
Musical director-pianist Berg presents
Info, tickets: birminghamvillageplayers.
revived arrangements of moments from
com; (248) 644-2075.
Broadway classics as well as numbers from
Playwrights@Work, a local playwrights
new hits on the Great White Way. Among
group, will present a staged reading of
those scheduled to appear is vocalist Craig
Joe Feinstein's full length comedy, That
Schulman, who played the role of Jean
Family Thing, directed by Joe Gadon and
Valjean (Les Miz) on Broadway more than
featuring Steve Sussman in a leading role,
2,000 times. $19-$40. (800) 745-3000;
at the West Bloomfield Township Library
olympiaentertainment.com .
on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 2 p.m. Admission is
After a sold-out appearance in March, pop
free. Info: (248) 644-2075.
star Pink (nee Alecia Beth Moore; her mom
is Jewish) returns with her Truth About Love
DANCE FEVER
tour to the Palace of Auburn Hills at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6. $39.50-$125. (800)
The DSO, under the baton of Assistant
745-3000; palacenet.com .
Director Teddy Abrams, brings the glitz
and glamor of old Hollywood to the stage
ON THE STAGE
of Orchestra Hall with performances of
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers classics
After a 35-year absence from performing,
—mostly tunes from Jewish composers
Barry Levine takes the stage at Matrix
including George Gershwin, Jerome
Theatre Company in southwest Detroit
Kern, Richard Rodgers and more in
in Jeff Baron's award winning Visiting
Fred & Ginger: Dancing and Romancing,
Mr. Green, running Nov. 1-24. In the
with vocalists/dancers Kirby Ward and
play, 86-year-old widower Mr. Green is
Joan Hess. These Pops Series performanc-
almost hit by a car driven by young cor-
es take place at 10:45 a.m. Friday, Nov. 1,
porate executive Ross Gardiner (Patrick
and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. $19-$105. (313)
Hanley). Found guilty of reckless driving,
576-5111; dso.org.
Gardiner is ordered to spend the next
The Detroit Opera House brings the
six months making weekly visits to Mr.
stunning acrobatics and surrealistic sets
Green. What starts off as a comedy about
of Los Angeles-based dance company
two people who resent being in the same
Diavolo, under the leadership of French-
room together develops into drama as
born Artistic Director Jacques Heim,
family secrets are revealed and old wounds to the opera house stage at 7:30 p.m.
are opened. "I've been playing old men
Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2-3.
for approximately 56 years," said Levine
The company's Detroit program includes
of West Bloomfield, describing an acting
Fluid Infinities, choreographed by the
career that began in his 20s. Levine went
company under Heim's direction and set
on to pursue a career in teaching and
to Philip Glass' Symphony No. 3; and

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in the epic final battle with the aliens.
Hailee Steinfeld,16, co-stars as Petra,
a Battle School student who becomes
one of his best combat lieutenants.
Steinfeld, whose father is Jewish,
provides the voice of Anne Frank for
the just-opened permanent exhibit
on the legendary young author at the
Los Angeles-based
Museum of Tolerance.
The Jewish Journal of
Greater Los Angeles
reported: "Anne's
voice and Anne's
words, as spoken by
Steinfeld, animate and
enliven throughout.
Steinfeld

Steinfeld's voice is penetrating and
bright even as it brings ominous news."
Last Vegas is a comedy about four
old friends who decide to throw a Las
Vegas bachelor party for the only
one of them who has remained single.
It stars Michael Douglas, 69, as the
"last bachelor," with Kevin Kline,
Morgan Freeman and Robert DeNiro
as the party throwers.
Jon Turteltaub (Cool Runnings,
National Treasure), 50, directs. The
script is by Dan Fogelman (Crazy,
Stupid, Love, Cars), 37.
Greek-born French filmmaker Costa-
Garvas has made political thrillers
since the 1960s and, more often than

Trajectoire, also choreographed by the
company under the direction of Heim.
$25-$80. (313) 237-7464; michiganopera.org .

THE BIG SCREEN

The Berman and the JCC Lenore
Marwil Jewish Film Festival present A
Conversation with Ben Peter, followed by
a screening of the documentary film Life
in Stills, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at
the Berman. Life in Stills tells the story of
Peter's 96-year-old grandmother Miriam
Weissenstein's Tel Aviv Photo House,
slated for destruction until her grandson
comes into the picture determined to
save the building and its collection of
nearly 1 million negatives that document
Israel's birth, beginnings and most
notable moments in history. $13 JCC
members/$15 nonmembers. (248) 661-
1900; theberman.org .

THE ART SCENE

The Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit's Janice Charach
Gallery opens a new exhibit and sale,
Detroit Assemblage, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
3 (a patron preview runs noon-1 p.m.).
Running through Dec. 22, it will highlight
the work of 20 contemporary Metro Detroit
artists, all of whom live and work in Detroit
or have roots in the city. They include
Andrea Rosenfeld, who creates playful
and sculptural jewelry using recycled and
mixed-media materials. "The works in
Detroit Assemblage are diverse not only in
terms of theme and medium, but often tell
a story or make use of a completely new
artistic format:' says Gallery Director Terri
Steam. Tattoo artist Matt Paw will show
watercolor and tattoo ink paintings in the
Side Gallery. In addition to the exhibit, the
gallery will host a bus tour to Detroit to
visit some of the studios where the guest
artists work. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday-
Wednesday and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday.
No admission fee. Details: (248) 432-5448;
jccdet.org.

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not, they are exciting and thought-
provoking films. Several of his well-
worth-viewing films have focused
on anti-Semitism, including The
Confession, Music Box and Amen.
His new film, Capital, takes place in
the world of global finance. A ruthless
young executive (Gad Elmaleh, 42)
takes over as CEO of
a big French bank.
His ascension is jeop-
ardized by a hostile
takeover attempt by
an American hedge
fund leader (Gabriel
Byrne).

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Elmaleh