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About
THE BIG SCREEN
Filmmaker Bess ICargman's
award-winning documenta-
ry, First Position, follows six
presents the
young dancers as they pre-
chamber-music
pare for a chance to enter the
Gail Zimmerman
wind quintet Imani
world of professional ballet.
Arts Editor
Winds, joined by
It screens at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
pianist Gilbert
Wednesday, Feb. 12, at the
Kalish in a program of classical and
Berman Center for the Performing Arts in
contemporary works, at 8 p.m. Saturday,
West Bloomfield. $17; $15 JCC members.
Feb. 8, at Seligman Performing Arts
(248) 661-1900; theberman.org.
Center in Beverly Hills. Kalish will
deliver a pre-concert talk at 6:45-7:30
FAMILY FUN
p.m. Tickets: $30-$60/$15-$24 students
($10 student day-of-concert rush tickets
Hear DSO Assistant Director Teddy
starting at 6 p.m.). (248) 855-6070;
Abrams lead two youth programs on
chambermusicdetroit.org .
Saturday, Feb. 8, at the Max M. Fisher
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Music Center. At 10 a.m. in the Music
brings Russian Romanticism to life dur-
Box, in a concert titled Teddy's Excellent
ing Valentine's Day weekend concerts at
Adventures Featuring Sixth Floor Trio,
7:30 p.m. Thursday, 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Abrams, on piano, and his chamber group
Friday, and 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13-15,
will perform for children ages 2-6; $12. At
at Orchestra Hall. Russian pianist Daniil
11 a.m. in Orchestra Hall, he will conduct
Trifinov, who studied in Tel Aviv and in
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in
2011, at age 20, won the first prize at both
Rock! Sing! Swing!, exploring both popu-
the Rubenstein and Tchaikovsky competi-
lar and classical favorites for ages 6 and
tions, will play Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody
up; $20-$40. (313) 576-5111; dso.org .
on a Theme of Paganini. The orchestra
Two Muses Theatre presents Awake!,
also will perform three other passionate
a contemporary musical mash-up of
compositions: George Gershwin's Cuban
fairy tales, written and directed by local
Overture, Respighi's Fountains of Rome
playwright Emilio Rodriguez, in which
Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Snow
and Piazzolla's Sinfonia de Buenos Aires
White grow tired of waiting for a prince
(DSO premiere). $15 and up. (313) 576-
to save the day and decide to take mat-
5111; dso.org.
ters into their own hands, at 2 and 4 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays, Feb. 8-22, at the
POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK
theater space inside Barnes & Noble in
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
West Bloomfield. Advance tickets: $10/$8
Pops Series, with vocalists Doug
ages 10 and under/$2 more at the door.
LaBrecque and Christiane Noll, presents
(248) 850-9919; twomusestheatre.org .
A Century of Broadway, with show-
stoppers by Richard Rodgers and Oscar THE ART SCENE
Hammerstein II, Andrew Jay Lerner
and Frederick Loewe, and more, at 8
Wasserman Projects in Birmingham
p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m.
presents Transform: A State of New
Sunday, Feb. 7-9, at Orchestra Hall. $19
Media, featuring the work of eight artists
whose work reflects on a wide range of
and up. (313) 576-5111; dso.org.
contemporary art practices engaging new
Reviving the wacky Jewish humor of
media, through March 29. An amazing
the 1950s and '60s by parodying every-
thing from cha-cha to doo-wop to rock,
series of mechanical, interactive mirrors,
Cleveland's Yiddishe Cup klezmer band
with the ability to change and respond
returns to the Ark in Ann Arbor at 8 p.m. to the presence of a viewer, is a central
Saturday, Feb. 8. There will be dancing in theme of the work of participating Israeli
the aisles! $20. (734) 761-1451; theark.org . artist Daniel Rosin. (248) 220-4620;
wassermanprojects.com.
ON THE STAGE
David Klein Gallery hosts the work
of American Abstract Expressionist
Tipping Point Theatre in Northville stages
Jack Tworkov (1900-1982), a founding
the lighthearted comedy Murder at the
member of the New York School, Feb.
Howard Johnson's, about a love triangle
8-March 8. Opening reception: 2-5
at the famous motor inn, through March
p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8. (248) 433-3700;
9. The 1979 play was co-written by Sam
dkgallery.com.
Bobrick, who with his wife, Julie Stein,
Ferndale's Lawrence Street Galley spon-
has written two Jewish-themed plays:
sors Body Electic 2014, a multimedia
Lenny's Back, about comedian Lenny
juried exhibition celebrating the human
Bruce, and The Outrageous Adventures
figure, through Feb. 28. Opening recep-
of Sheldon & Mrs. Levine, based on their
tion: 6-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7; mid-month
book of the same name. $29 and up. (248)
reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21. (248)
347-0003; tippingpointtheatre.com .
544-0394; lawrencestreetgallery.com .
Chamber Music
Society of Detroit
DIRECTED BY GARY ANDERSON
Detroit, 1967. In the gleaming lobby of 1300 Lafayette East, the
Supremes are fighting, a young Jewish housewife is pining for
something new, and Reena Walker - an aspiring Motown singer - is locked
out of her apartment in a peignoir set paid for by a married man. Can two women,
one white and one black, forge a friendship atop this powder keg of a city?
CO•PRODUCED WITH PLOWSHARES THEATRE COMPANY
JET is a professional, Actors Equity
Association theatre that performs in the
Aaron DeRoyTheatre in the JCC - on the corner
of Maple & Drake Roads in West Bloomfield
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