arts & entertainment Some 'Kind ' Of Performer Singer-actress-comedian brings show to Macomb Center for the Performing Arts. I Suzanne Chessler Contributing Writer I n other years, Roslyn Kind could be spending Rosh Hashanah with half- brother Sheldon Streisand in New Jersey and Yom Kippur with half-sister Barbra Streisand in California. This year, however, a singing engage- ment between the two holidays has put her on the road, and she will be appear- ing Saturday evening, Sept. 27, at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts in Clinton Township. "This will be a new show I debuted in New York last April," says Kind in a phone conversation from her home in California. "It has some songs I've done and found that people love and some new songs from theater and the contem- porary stage. "I bring a trio of musicians with me and talk about my career and life." The audience can expect to hear "Beautiful Day" and "Fool on the Hill" among many selections she likes to keep as surprises for the people in the crowd. As an entertainer, I keep my bottom line as wanting to make people happy," says Kind, whose appearances have taken her to venues from New York's Lincoln Center to London's Cafe Royal. "The world is so troubled that I want to bring some happiness to people for the time I'm on stage and touch their hearts in the ways they need?' When Kind premiered this show ear- lier this year, it turned out that her first two albums (Give Me You and This Is Roslyn Kind, both released in 1969 by RCA) came out on a new CD by Sony Masterworks. "It was beshert, but I don't like to be pigeon-holed into one area [of songs to choose from]," she says. Kind, 63, defines herself as the baby in her family. Her brother, Sheldon, a commercial artist who also worked in real estate, is seven years older than Barbra (nee Barbara), who is nine years older than Roslyn (nee Rosalind). Kind believes that she and her sister got their singing abilities from their maternal grandfather, who was a cantor in Russia and whose talents also were passed along to his daughter and their mother, one-time aspiring singer Diana Rosen Streisand Kind. Diana was first married to Emanuel Streisand, who died when Barbra was 16 A Jewish 'Annie' I months old; Diana later married Louis Kind, with whom she had Roslyn. "My sister and I are two different personalities, and I want to make my own mark and not rely on somebody else's success," says Kind. "My music is somewhat different from Barbra's. I per- formed the music of the era when I first started at 17. I was into the Beatles and the rest of the British invasion, and my recordings reflected the songs of those times." Describing herself as a shy and chubby child, Kind's life changed as she turned 14 and lost weight. After singing around the house and creating a pretend world while popular recordings played, she began doing her own demo records. She was signed at RCA by the same man who signed Elvis Presley. After her first nightclub engagement at the once popular and now closed Hungry I In San Francisco and a book- ing on the Ed Sullivan Show, she went on to appear in clubs. She also did acting that included a role in the stage production Show Me Where the Good Times Are, the sit- com Gimme a Break and the film The Underachievers. I 88 September 25 • 2014 There have been lulls in her career. When her mother became ill, for instance, she took time off to supervise care. "Because my mom had Alzheimer's The sun is out for Issie Swickle. Suzanne Chessler Contributing Writer n her first professional role, 9-year- old Issie Swickle plays the title char- acter in the newly redesigned nation- al tour of Annie. She begins her run Sept. 26-Oct. 4 at Detroit's Fisher Theatre. "My husband and I are still asking each other how we got here," says mom Dana Swickle, an attorney accompany- ing her daughter and taking a leave of absence from the Florida firm part- nered with her husband, Adam. Mother and daughter talked by phone with the Jewish News from New York during rehearsals for the Tony-winning musical about an orphan and her dog. "Five girls were up for the part of Annie, and we trained with the dog for one of the auditions," Issie says. "We sang, and at the end of the day, they told us to stay for another audition. "Then they took me into a room, and Martin Charnin, the director, asked me if I wanted to be Annie. I freaked out." Last year, Roslyn Kind, pictured, toured with her sister, Barbra Streisand, including a performance in Tel Aviv. Issie Swickle Issie as "Annie" Issie quickly got her composure and had no problems as Charnin explained that she would have to say bye-bye to her long dark hair. The actress and fourth-grader decided to donate the strands to Locks of Love for a young cancer patient. "They cut my hair really short and dyed it red," Issie says. "It's actually cute the way they cut it?' Issie, who started taking ballet when she was 3, soon asked for singing les- sons. Her parents agreed to classes at Broadway Kids Studio in her hometown of Davie, Fla., where she was cast as Annie in two studio productions as well as other parts in other studio shows. "Issie loves performing?' says Dana Swickle, who picked the name Isabelle with her husband using a Jewish book of names and moved on to the nick- name. "A friend of mine, whose daughter also goes to the studio, suggested last summer that we go to an intensive weeklong theater camp in New York City. During a showcase, an agent requested to represent Issie. Through the agent, we came to the auditions?" Issie's favorite song in the show is "It's the Hard-Knock Life "I like that song because I'm really spunky and sassy?' says Issie. "I got the script before rehearsals started, and I thought they would be impressed if I was really prepared. I memorized all my