The Addams Family

MUSICAL NOTES

Masha and Spike, featuring a cocktail of
Chekov-inspired characters, directed by
Stephen Sussman and featuring Greg
Bowman and Erica Shubin. USA Today
wrote of the play: “hugely entertaining
… few contemporary playwrights have
proven as deft as Durang at mining
both the absurdity and the dangers
of human folly. In its own deliciously
madcap way, the new work offers some
keen insights into the challenges and
agonies of 21st-century life.”
Jan. 15-30. $20. (248) 644-2075;
birminghamvillageplayers.com.

Presented by the Chamber Music
Society of Detroit, baritone David Small
and pianist Stephen Wogaman (the
fourth president of CMSD in its 70-year
history) perform Schubert’s complete
song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey)
8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, at Schaver Music
Recital Hall on the campus of Wayne
State University. One of the most cel-
ebrated song cycles in the classical
repertoire, Winterreise is a setting of 24
poems by Wilhelm Muller (his grandson,
Wilhelm Max Muller, was a contribu-
tor to the Encyclopedia Biblica and the
Jewish Encyclopedia). (248) 855-6070;
cmsdetroit.org.

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Seinfeld and President Obama

The sci-fi action series Second Chance
premiered on Fox on Wednesday, Jan.
13, at 9 p.m. It was created by Rand
Ravich (The Astronaut’s Wife), 53, a
Solomon Schechter Jewish day school
grad, and stars British Jewish actor
Robert Kazinsky, 32, in his first really big
American role. Kazinsky, a very toned and
handsome guy, plays Jimmy Pritchard,
a “re-born” Seattle-area police detective
who died at age 75 after a corruption
scandal forced him to retire. Billionaire
twins bring him back to life as a 32-year-
old (Kazinsky) with a new purpose. But
Pritchard is still haunted by the old temp-
tations.
In many ways, the new USA network
series Colony mines the same ground as

The 5th Wave. Again, we are in a horrible
future and the Earth has been invaded
by bad aliens. The action is set in Los
Angeles, where the occupiers, who
appear in human form, have walled off
the city and are culling through the phys-
ically unfit. The series centers on Katie
and Will Bowman (Josh Holloway), secret
members of the resistance movement,
and their two children. Bowman is sup-
posed to be a former Army Ranger. There
are many human collaborators, including
Alan Snyder, who is the governor of the
Los Angeles area and a tool of the invad-
ers. Playing Snyder is veteran character
actor Peter Jacobson, 50, who played
Dr. Chris Taub for five years on House.
(Premieres Thursday, Jan. 14, 10 p.m.).

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