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find a sense of extended family
through theater participation.
Toby Gittleman, a sixth-grader
at West Hills Middle School in
Bloomfield Hills, shares the role
of Winthrop. He is joined in
the production by mom Stacy
Gittleman, one of four gossipy
Pick-a-Little Ladies, who listen
as con man Professor Harold Hill
(Udi Kapen) sells the townspeople
of River City, Iowa, on a youth
band.
The Gittlemans became
involved with the company after
seeing an audition poster for an
earlier production.
"There's a great bond being
with people who love music:'
says Stacy, a contributing writer
for the Jewish News and a bar/
bat mitzvah coach. "The theater
Udi Kapen as Professor Harold Hill
group also is great for newcomers
to the area looking to meet oth-
ers:'
The Gittlemans, who moved to
they are now on their own as Debra
Michigan almost two years ago,
morphs into a Pick-a-Little Lady and
share the satisfaction of meet-
Mark takes his turn as a salesman,
ing others with Alicia Harris, who
the same part he was given for the
returned to the state a year ago, after company's first production.
living on the East Coast for 22 years.
"I'm musical and love to dance,"
Harris works as a counselor and
says Debra, a psychologist and nurse
sings with the choir at Congregation
practitioner whose husband is a
B'nai Moshe in West Bloomfield.
dentist. "This has been our family
"Although the music sounds
activity:'
simple in this play, the harmonies
Debra, who has sung with the
are complex," says Harris, another
Zamir Chorale and with presenters
Pick-a-Little Lady, who was trained
at the Birmingham Temple, likes
in theater at the University of
dropping into the different worlds
Michigan. "I love the singing, per-
depicted in plays. "They take you out
forming and the collaborating that is of your own issues," she says.
part of the staging."
Udi Kapen, who sings about
Leigh Moss, also a Pick-a-Little
76 trombones as the professor,
Lady and the romantic interest of a
describes being especially proud of a
friend of Harold Hill's, dropped out
certain cellist.
of theater at Berkley High School but
The pediatrician, who has been
is having fun with it now.
appearing with the theater company
More fun, for Moss, is being
for some 20 years, is in his sixth
joined on stage by daughter Estee, a
show with daughter Kayla, a Groves
student at Bloomfield Hills Middle
High School senior and cellist in
School, who plays one of the towns-
her school's orchestra. She portrays
people. When she was 7, Estee, now
Zaneeta Shinn, the mayor's daughter
11, auditioned for a role in Annie,
caught up in young romance.
and encouraged her mother to try
"I bring some theatrical skills to
out, too. The next year, the pair
my practice," says Kapen, active with
returned to the stage together in
B'nai Israel Synagogue. "They're ice-
Oliver.
breakers." ❑
Estee, who has performed with
Sky's the Limit and Roeper's summer
program, sings in the Congregation
Shaarey Zedek Youth Choir.
Although Leigh, an attorney, has
become used to making public pre-
sentations, this is a different ball
game. "My daughter gave me the
The Music Man runs Jan. 23-31 at
courage to go on stage," she says.
Bloomfield Hills High School. $12-
Debra and Mark Luria have been
$15. (248) 433-0885;
with Bloomfield Players since the
bloomfieldplayers.org .
start, for more than 25 years. First
encouraging their two children,

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