ART NEWS

The roster of artists
whose work is featured
in “Exploring the
Figure” at the Janice
Charach Gallery at the
West Bloomfield JCC is a
who’s who of celebrated
Detroit names. Michelle
Tanguay, John Hegarty,
Camille LaMontagne,
Avenue Q
Tony Roko (whose
work is on display at
the Holocaust Memorial Center
in Farmington Hills), Deborah
Marlowe Kashdan and Detroit
icon Niagara are among the 10
renowned local artists. Through
Feb. 18. (248) 432-5579; charach-
gallery.org.

EASE ON DOWN

Based on L. Frank Baum’s classic
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the
Tony Award-winning The Wiz gives
the 1900s novel an urban retelling.
Through Jan. 31, Sky’s the Limit
Productions presents the musical,
performed by adults and children
from our community. $15-$20. The

Berman Center
for Performing
Arts at the West
Bloomfield JCC.
(248) 661-1900;
theberman.org.

PUPPETS
GET REAL

The Tony
Award-winning
Broadway musi-
cal Avenue Q
(produced by Oak Park native and
Stagecrafters alumnus Jeffrey Seller)
is not your typical family-friendly pup-
pet show. Taking its name from the
low-rent neighborhood inhabited by
a ragtag group of humans and furry
puppets (one with a porn addiction),
the show’s performers operate puppets
while in plain sight and features Gary
Coleman as a character. Opening night
complimentary pre-glow with light hors
d’ouevres 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22; puppet
meet-and-greet 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan.
23. Runs through Feb. 7. Stagecrafters
Baldwin Theatre, Royal Oak. $22-$24.
(248) 541-6430; stagecrafters.org.

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Cohan

Mazer

as Maggie Green, the pretty farmer’s
daughter on the mega-hit series The
Walking Dead. She continues in the
horror genre in the new film, The
Boy. Here she plays Greta, a young
American woman who takes a job as
a nanny in a remote English village,
only to discover that the family’s
8-year-old is a life-sized doll that the
parents care for just like a real boy as
a way to cope with their son’s death
20 years prior. Cohan’s unusual Anglo-
American background might have led
to her casting: Born in New Jersey to
non-Jewish English parents, she was
raised by her mother and American

Jewish stepfather.
Her mother con-
verted to Judaism,
as did Cohan (age
5), and she had a
bat mitzvah. Her
mother and step-
father moved to
the U.K. when she
13 and she lived
there, full time,
until she finished
college.
Another British
Jew, Dan Mazer,
44, is the director
of the comedy Dirty Grandpa. Mazer
is best known for being the co-writer
of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G and
Borat films. Zac Efron (whose paternal
grandpa was Jewish) plays Jason, an
attorney who is on the cusp of marry-
ing his boss’ daughter (Zoey Deutch,
21) and thereby getting fast-tracked
to a partnership. However, he’s tricked
into driving his foul-mouthed grandpa
(Robert DeNiro) to Daytona for spring
break and the hijinks grandpa gets
him into endanger his career future.
Adam Pally, 33 (The Mindy Project),
has a supporting role.

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