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AUDITION
NOTICE

The Farmington
Players will present
the Diary of Anne
Frank, debuting Feb.
12, and will be hold-
ing auditions for
cast members 12:30
p.m. Sunday, Nov.
Lynne Konstantin 15, at the Playhouse
Arts & Life Editor
Barn in Farmington
Hills. Based on the
1955 play by Frances
Goodrich and Albert Hackett and newly
adapted by Wendy Kesselman, the Players'
Anne Frank will be directed by Maureen
Mansfield. (248) 553-2955;
farmingtonplayers.org .

OH, WHAT A NIGHT

After co-writing his first hit, "(Who Wears)
Short Shorts," at age 15, composer Bob
Gaudio went on to become a founding
member of (and principal songwriter for)
the Four Seasons. Writing hits including
"Sherry,""Big Girls Don't Cry,""Oh, What a
Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You,"
Gaudio, Frankie Valli and the rest of the
Four Seasons invented their own sound
that became the soundtrack for a whole

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DETROIT SOUNDS

Over the last year, com-
poser Tod Machover
has teamed with the
DSO to ask Detroiters
what the city sounds
like. With more than
100 hours of audio and
Richard Grinstein in Vogue
Tod Machover
Jersey Boys
15,000 sound files sub-
mitted, Machover cre-
Park-native Andrew Lippa). $35-$94. (800)
generation. See the story of how the blue-
ated Symphony in D, which the DSO will
collar boys became pop-music sensations
982-2787; broadwayindetroit.com .
premiere 10:45 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, and 8
in Tony-, Grammy- and Olivier-winning
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at Orchestra Hall.
GOLD STANDARD
musical Jersey Boys at Detroit's Fisher
"There's everything from baseball to Boblo,
Theatre Nov. 17-Dec. 6. The musical was
Goldsmith, gemologist, craftsman,
from Ford to food markets' Machover says.
co-written by Marshall Brickman (who
Cranbrook Academy of Art graduate —
"[It was interesting] listening to all of this
and owner of Grinstein Jewelry & Design
played banjo with John and Michelle
back in my studio, where the sounds could
in Birmingham — Richard Grinstein has
Phillips before they became the Mamas and
conjure up a story and a feeling, divorced
— at first — from my knowledge of where
the Papas; wrote for The Dick Cavett Show
created a signature look in his designs
and the New Yorker; and won an Oscar for
by combining the seemingly paradoxical
they were recorded and by whom." Called
his collaboration on Woody Allen's Annie
influences of Art Nouveau and Modernism
"a musical visionary" by the New York Times,
Hall) and Rick Elice (graduate of Cornell
(as seen in his design, shown, which was
Machover, a Juilliard School graduate,
University, Yale Drama School and a teach-
featured in the September issue of Vogue).
has completed similar City Symphonies
ing fellow at Harvard; writer of Peter and the At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, he will speak in Toronto; Edinburgh, Scotland; Perth,
Starcatcher; and co-writer, with Brickman,
on the History of Jewelry as an Art Form,
Australia; and Lucerne, Switzerland. $15-
of the book for The Addams Family musical,
with an emphasis on the 19th-century Arts
$100. (313) 576-5111; dso.org . *
whose music and lyrics were written by Oak & Crafts movement. Janice Charach Gallery

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November 12 • 2015

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