MASTERS OF

42nd Street

Based on The Trapp
Family Singers by Maria
Augusta Trapp, the fam-
ily favorite, with book
by Howard Lindsay and
Russel Crouse and direct-
ed by Jack O’Brien, will
be performed Feb. 9-Feb.
14 at Wharton Center.
$38. (800) WHARTON;
whartoncenter.com.

SONG AND DANCE

women. With a book by Fred
Ebb and Bob Fosse, music
by John Kander, lyrics by
Ebb and choreography by
Ann Reinking (in the style of
Fosse), Chicago features “All
That Jazz,” “When You’re Good
to Mama” and more. Feb.
9-14. $34-$79. Fisher Theatre,
Detroit. (800) 982-2787;
broadwayindetroit.com.

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE

Head to East Lansing for a taste of
Austria: Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music.

Based on Busby
Berkeley’s 1933 movie
(which was based on Bradford Ropes’
1932 novel), 42nd Street is the song
and dance fable of Broadway, about a
starry-eyed dancer trying to make it on
the Great White Way at the height of
the Great Depression. The Tony Award-
winning Broadway musical, with book
by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble,
music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al
Dubin, and including favorite songs
“Lullaby of Broadway,” “We’re in the
Money” — and “42nd Street” — comes
to the Fox Theatre in Detroit Friday-
Saturday, Feb. 12-13. $30-$70. (800) 745-
3000; olympiaentertainment.com.

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Copland and His Contemporaries
Stories and Music

Featuring the Artists of the
Michigan Opera Theatre Studio and
Professor Howard Lupovitch

Sunday, February 21, 2016
4:00 p.m.
The Berman Center for the
Performing Arts

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Become immersed in the worlds
of Copland, Gershwin, Bernstein,
Sondheim and others as we pay
tribute to America’s greatest
20th-century Jewish composers.

Paltrow

that era. George Clooney plays a star actor
who is kidnapped and Josh Brolin co-stars
as the guy hired by the studio to find him.
Tribe members with major supporting
roles include Scarlett Johansson, 31,
Jonah Hill, 32, and Alden Ehrenreich, 26,
in what may finally be his breakout role.
He co-starred in Beautiful Creatures (2013),
a big-budget “sure hit” that turned out to
be a big flop. Directed and written by Joel
Coen, 61, and Ethan Coen, 58; Caesar
opens Friday, Feb. 5.
The Super Bowl (Feb. 7 on CBS; see “The
Super Bowl at 50” in this issue) is being
played at the new Levi’s Stadium in Santa
Clara, Calif., home of the 49ers. You could
say that the stadium is named after a
Jew: Levi Strauss, the founder of the Levi

Ehrenreich

Strauss Company, still owned by Strauss
descendants, bought the naming rights.
I've found it curious that Abe Vigoda,
who died on Jan, 26, age 94, looked
healthy in The Godfather, yet haggard as
Detective Fish in Barney Miller. Here's what
his AP obit said: “An exercise enthusiast,
Vigoda had just returned from a 5-mile
jog when his agent called and told him to
report immediately to the office of Danny
Arnold, who was producing a pilot for a
police station comedy. Arnold remarked
that Vigoda looked tired, and the actor
explained about his jog. ‘You know, you
look like you might have hemorrhoids,’
Arnold said. ‘What are you — a doctor or a
producer?’ Vigoda asked. He was cast on
the spot.’”

Tickets

General Admission $22
Friends of Melton or JCC Members $18

For tickets call 248-205-2557 or
visit theberman.org

Cohn Haddow

Center for Judaic Studies

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