Buy $100 worth of gift cards and get a $20.00 Complimentary gift card for yoursell.!! >> editor's picks CLASSICAL NOTES Kids Eat Free Monday Aboui. vla The Detroit Symphony Orchestra opens its Pops season at Orchestra Hall with Let's Dance, featur- ing tango, tap and ballroom dancers performing to music — including Leonard Bernstein's "Overture" to West Side Story played by the symphony. Performance times: 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26-28. $19+. (313) 576-5111; dso.org . Formed in 1976 and based in New York City, the Emerson String Quartet — violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton and new cellist Paul Watkins (the new artistic director of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival) — performs in a University Musical Society concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, at Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor. In addition to quartets by Beethoven and Shostakovich, the world premiere of a new work by Lowell Liebermann will be on the pro- gram. $26-$52. (734) 764-2538; ums.org . — ON THE STAGE Farmington Players presents Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph Kesselring's dark comedic tale of the crazy Brewster fam- ily, including two spinster aunts who poison men with arsenic-laced wine, Sept. 26-Oct. 18, at the Farmington Players Barn in Farmington Hills. Starring as Dr. Einstein is Gary Weinstein of Farmington Hills. $16 adults/$14 students and seniors. Show times and tickets: (248) 553-2955; farmingtonplayers.org. Head to Ferndale to catch Ringwald Theatre's staging of playwright Tony Kushner's Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning epic about AIDS: Angels in America: Part I (Millennium Approaches) and Part II (Perestroika). Through Sept. 29. $10-$15 per production; $29 all-day marathons including both shows. Show times and tickets: theringwald.com Based on Michigan native Sam Raimi's 1980s cult classic films is Evil Dead: The Musical, celebrating its fifth season at Detroit's City Theatre, where it runs Oct. 1-25 with an all-new local cast. $29.50 general admission/$15 for Oct. 1 per- formance. Show times and tickets: (800) 745-3000; olympiaentertainment.com . The Penny Seats presents the musi- cal revue Tomfoolery, celebrating the words and music of satirist, mathemati- cian and folk favorite Tom Lehrer, at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Oct. 2-23, at Conor O'Neill's Irish Pub and Restaurant, 318 S. Main St., in Ann Arbor. An opening short — a 5-minute mini- musical called Volcanoes! — composed by Ann Arbor's Zach London, precedes the show. Dinner seatings available starting at 6:30 p.m. $20 dinner and show/$10 show only. Advance tickets: (734) 926- 5346; pennyseats.org. 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